CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, DYKE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380460
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, DYKE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380460
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, DYKE 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 THE GOOD SHEPHERD, DYKE ROAD

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

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29797 06308

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ20NE DYKE ROAD, Preston 577-1/3/1032 (North East side) Church of the Good Shepherd

II

Anglican church. The foundation stone at the west end is dated 1920 and several rainwater heads carry the date 1922; the east end was extended in 1927. Designed by Edward Prioleau Warren and built at the expense of Alice Mary Moor in memory of her husband Gerald Henry Moor, Vicar of Preston. Brown brick with dressings of stone and concrete, roof of tiles. PLAN: chancel and nave under one roof; south-east chapel, north-east vestry and chapel, north-west porch and south-west tower (all directions are ritual). EXTERIOR: the east end has a 5-light window under a 4-centred arch with one transom, the lower panels blank, the upper lancets being trefoiled and plain alternately; 3-light east window to cross-gabled south-east chapel; parapeted vestry and north-east chapel gabled to west; 4 aisle windows to either side, formed of 3 and 5 plain lancets alternately with buttresses between, and a number detailed in concrete; one broad hipped dormer to each side, and a deep bellcast to the roof over the aisles; gabled north-west porch. The west end has 5 stepped lancets detailed in concrete under a segmental pointed arch of 3 courses of stepped brickwork and a statue of the Good Shepherd in an ogee niche in the apex of the gable. The south-west tower has a pointed-arched porch with engaged columns, hollow-moulded archivolt and hoodmould; clasping buttresses with 2 offsets, and a polygonal stair tower at the south-west corner; deep offset over ground floor, first-floor windows are flat-arched pairs with pairs of narrow lancets above; another offset and then the bellstage with 2 pairs of lancets linked by a single hoodmould; cornice, embattled parapet, copper fleche with weather vane. INTERIOR: the interior is of brick plastered, and nave and chancel are under a single roof, the sanctuary, choir and nave distinguished only by steps and by a rood beam between nave and chancel. Nave arcade of 5 bays with square piers carrying low, slightly chamfered pointed arches, and passage aisles with stone lintels running out from the piers, carved with an ogee moulding on each face. The panelled roof is jettied out slightly from the chancel and more from the nave, with the nave coving decorated with shields carrying emblems of the Passion; the vertical ribs and ridge of the roof decorated with coloured banding in the style of GF Bodley, and the easternmost bay decorated with sacred emblems; the south-east chapel has a similar, simpler roof and a reredos in late Gothic style, possibly by WHR Blacking, with a painted triptych signed with the monogram HRM; 2 stained-glass windows in the south-east chapel by Ward and Hughes, and the chancel east window possibly by the same firm; gilded organ case in a late Gothic style by WHR Blacking. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-; Pevsner N & Nairn I: The Buildings of England: Sussex: Harmondsworth: 1965-).

Listing NGR: TQ2979706308

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Legacy System number:: 480637
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965)

Legal

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