CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS, BIRD IN BUSH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376588
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS, BIRD IN BUSH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376588
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS, BIRD IN BUSH ROAD

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SEVEN DOLOURS, BIRD IN BUSH ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34384 77425

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3477SW BIRD IN BUSH ROAD 636-1/39/63 (North side) 27/09/72 Church of Our Lady of Seven Dolours

II

Roman Catholic (Franciscan) church. 1864-66. Edward Welby Pugin. MATERIALS: stock brick with black brick and stone banding and other dressings; pitched slate roof above brick eaves cornice. PLAN: Gothic. EXTERIOR: tall nave and buttressed aisles. South west hipped-roofed entrance extension with mosaic in tympanum, possibly later build. North aisle has 1-storey extension eastwards with row of lancets. Small gabled extensions with rose windows to roof, at point where crossing might be. Gabled east end has large rose window above row of narrow lancets flanked by twin buttresses. Side aisles have smaller rose windows in similar style at east ends and narrow lancet aisle windows with continuous stone band at spring. Quatrefoil chancel clerestory windows. Friary in similar style attached to north. INTERIOR: plain, whitewashed; 5-bay nave arcade of narrow pointed arches. Chancel panelled in various coloured marbles. Arch braced panelled ceiling.

Listing NGR: TQ3438477425

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Legacy System number:: 470593
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.