Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church

Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church, Cresswell Park, SE3 9RD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1358959
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church
Statutory Address:: Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church, Cresswell Park, SE3 9RD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1358959
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church
Statutory Address 1:: Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church, Cresswell Park, SE3 9RD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church, Cresswell Park, SE3 9RD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 39770 75922

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 October 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 3975 45/G5

CRESSWELL PARK SE3 Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church

(Formerly listed as Roman Catholic Church of St Mary)

GV II

1891 by A E Purdie. Nave, aisles, apsidal chancel. North aisle extension as chapel, South aisle extension as organ chamber. Early English style with stiff-leaf capitals and stiff-leaf corbels to chancel arch. Four-bay nave, two-bay chancel. Elaborate carved reredos. Marble columns to altar. Scissor-truss roof. Small, octagonal baptistery at South-west angle. Outside, coursed rubble masonry with freestone dressings. High pitched, slated roof. Diagonal buttresses at angles and stepped buttresses at junction of aisles and chapels. Bell turret at north-west angle of nave.

The listed buildings in Cresswell Part form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3977075922

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Legacy System number:: 200295
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.