PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376615
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376615
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES WAY

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES WAY

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Stevenage (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 24039 24093

Details

TL 22 SW STEVENAGE ST GEORGES WAY

733/6/10007 Parish Church of St Andrew and St George

II

Church. 1956-60. Seely and Paget. Reinforced concrete frame with precast concrete flint-faced wall panels, buff brick to narthex and copper covered barrel roofs. Traditional plan, - a rectangular, aisled space with the altar against the east wall. The church is raised up over ancillary rooms, some used by the town museum. Steps up to central entrance in single storeyed brick narthex, beneath triple segmental barrel roofs. Tall nave with lower aisles. Concrete flying buttresses connect the aisle walls to the clerestory. East and west walls of main space are fully glazed (the east with stained glass, the rest with plain plate glass). Windows are divided vertically and horizontally by white-painted frame and more delicate glazing bars. Continuous clerestory band of vertical lights with cyncopated glazing pattern. Narrow slit windows to aisles. Tower circular in plan, comprising a reinforced concrete frame with six uprights and five stages plus a spire, formed by the convergence of the upright members. A concrete spiral staircase rises up the centre, having a light and simple metal balustrade. Inside the church each bay is defined by two intersecting hyperbolic paraboloid arches in exposed reinforced concrete, and arches also rise from the same piers to encompass the clerestory within each bay. The barrel vaulted ceilings are lined in varnished timber plywood sheets and there is exposed brown brick to left and right of the sanctuary, which forms a narrow easterly projection and is lined with slender fluted columns of dark red colour. The original altar remains in situ against this background in the sanctuary, which is raised on three steps, but another altar has been erected in the forward position on a new platform. Moulded timber pulpit raised on a `wine glass' foot. Font at west end of central aisle is a concave-sided shape in timber with dolphins supporting spun steel bowl in a moulded timber holder. Moulded timber pews. Rich stained glass to east end in a semi-abstract manner, centring on a red cross. This church is a focal point in Stevenage and is notable especially for its dramatic structural form.

Listing NGR: TL2403924093

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Legacy System:: LBS

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'Concrete' in February, (1961), 64-69

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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.