CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS

CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS, ELM GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1380498
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS, ELM GROVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1380498
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS, ELM GROVE

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 ST JOSEPH AND ATTACHED STEPS AND WALLS, ELM GROVE

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 31926 05284

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3105SE ELM GROVE 577-1/28/279 (North side) 19/07/85 Church of St Joseph and attached steps and walls (Formerly Listed as: ELM GROVE St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church)

II*

Roman Catholic church. 1880-1906. The original design, by W Kedo Broder, was for a church with a polygonal chancel flanked by outer apsidal chapels, nave, transepts, and a tall west tower and spire. The nave and chancel were completed by 1880 to this design; the south transept and chapel were opened in 1885 to the design of JS Hansom; the west front, designed by FA Walters, was completed by 190l, and the north transept and north chapel by 1906. Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings, roof of slate. PLAN: chancel, side chapel, shallow transepts, nave. EXTERIOR: the east end has an apse of 5 sides with windows of 2 lights with trefoiled tracery, and gabled buttresses between; south-east and north-east chapels are 5 sides of an octagon with similar windows under hoodmoulds, buttresses with one offset. Shallow transepts with 2 windows of 2 lights with sexfoil above under hoodmoulds, and gabled buttresses with one offset to either side, 3 stepped lancets in the gable. Single-storey vestry to north-east side. 2-bay nave with low unwindowed aisles under a lean-to roof; clerestory has 3-light windows with trefoiled tracery and 2 gabled buttresses with one offset. The west end has a gabled porch, the flat-arched entrance set under a pointed arch with the mouldings of the archivolt dying into splayed reveals; the double doors have elaborate hinges and there is a statue of St Joseph in the tympanum; 2 pointed-arched windows above, each of 2 lights with a cinquefoil above and under a single hoodmould with a vesica-shaped window in the spandrel; 3 stepped lancets to gable, also under a single hoodmould; stair tower to left of porch, square in plan; buttress to right. Steps up to west porch in 2 flights, with flanking walls crowned by a spiked rail. INTERIOR: apsidal chancel of 7 bays with vault-shafts of Bath stone, vaulting of white Beere brick; multi-shafted chancel arch combined with 2-bay arcade to transepts, the columns to the south with foliage caps, those to the north uncarved; slim columns to transepts with foliage capitals and sexpartite vault to crossing; nave of 2 major bays relating to the vaulting of the roof, of stone and brick as in the chancel, and 4 subsidiary bays relating to the arcade to passage-aisles, which consists of circular columns carrying abaci only. Organ gallery to west end.

Listing NGR: TQ3192605284

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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.