ST WILFRIDS FLATS

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
List Entry Name:: ST WILFRIDS FLATS
Statutory Address:: ST WILFRIDS FLATS, ELM GROVE

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 480731
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Royal Institute of British Architects Journal' in 24 March, (1934), 234-239

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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.