CHURCH OF ST WILFRED
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1354934
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sep-1951
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, CHURCH ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Mid Sussex (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haywards Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33098 23915
Details
TQ 32 SW HAYWARDS HEATH CHURCH ROAD
4/111 Church of St Wilfred
10.9.51
II*
Church. 1863-5 by G F Bodley in Decorated style. Built of Sussex and Ardingly sandstones with tiled roof having decorative ridge tiles. Central tower, 5 bay nave with clerestory and lean to aisles with buttresses. South chapel in transept and short chancel of 1 bay. Tower of 3 stages with SE turret with stepped buttresses and octagonal turret above. Hipped tiled roof with iron finial. Bell-stage has double pointed
window. Nave has quatrefoil and cinquefoil openings to clerestory. Deep plinth
to aisles whose windows have double original openings and trefoliated heads.
SW gabled porch with cross-shaped saddlestone and arched doorcase with hood
moulding and panelled door. Interior has roof of crown-post type: Tall west
window with intersecting tracery. North walls rest on alternate octagonal
and circular piers. Central tower rests on boldly pointed transverse arches.
East window contains expressionist glass by A Archer 1962-3. Low stone screen,
with alternate rose and fleur-de-lys motifs, separates nave from choir under
tower. South aisle contains some William Morris stained glass of Saints c1870.
South chapel has unusual stained glass depicting soldiers at the front and being
hospitalized during the First World War. Wooden lectern on stone base.
Graded II* for rarity of Bodley Churches. (See Pevsner, Buildings of England,
Sussex, pp 529 and 530.)
Listing NGR: TQ3309823915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303022
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 529 530
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
