St Wilfrids Flats
ST WILFRIDS FLATS, ELM GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380499
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- St Wilfrids Flats
- Statutory Address:
- ST WILFRIDS FLATS, ELM GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380499
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- St Wilfrids Flats
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST WILFRIDS FLATS, ELM GROVE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ST WILFRIDS FLATS, 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 32417 05259
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3205SW ELM GROVE
577-1/29/280 (North side)
14/01/81 St Wilfrid's flats
(Formerly Listed as:
ELM GROVE
Church of St Wilfrid)
II
Church, now an old people's home. Foundation stone at west end
laid 1932, work completed 1934 (all directions ritual).
Designed by HS Goodhart-Rendel, built by George Lynn and Sons
Ltd. Brown Keymer brick in Dutch bond, concrete-cased steel
and reinforced concrete, roof of pantiles.
PLAN: chancel, nave, north and south passage aisles, north and
south chapels, tower over the chancel, vestry at north-east
corner.
EXTERIOR: all windows segmental-arched. The east end is blank.
The saddleback tower lies across the width of the church, and
is set back twice, very slightly; the broad sides are
unwindowed; 2 tall windows to the north, with architraves of
slightly recessed brickwork and set between shallow brick
buttresses; above them, another pair of windows, less tall and
set under a corbelled brick archivolt; cross of blue tiles
with gold mosaic joints between these windows. Side chapel to
north under catslide roof, its northern face unwindowed, and a
window to west, matching those of the nave. Nave formerly of 5
bays, the pier projecting as haunches above the roof. Gabled
north-east porch. West end canted slightly in plan, with 2
windows of which only the upper is original. Mansard roof with
modern lay-lights inserted. Vestry with 2 tiers of windows, of
which only the upper one is original. Screen wall to north
side between porch and vestries.
INTERIOR: the interior of the church has been wholly altered
by the insertion of housing which leaves the south arcade and
the space under the tower unencumbered; in the former side
chapel to the north, a mural painting by Hans Feibusch, 1940.
(RIBA Journal: 1934: vol.41: 234-9).
Listing NGR: TQ3241705259
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480731
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Institute of British Architects Journal in 24 March, (1934), 234-239
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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