CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381058
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-1999
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, UPPER NORTH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, UPPER NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30422 04520
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004NW UPPER NORTH STREET
577-1/31/927 (South side)
10/06/88 Church of St Mary Magdalene and
attached walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER NORTH STREET
St Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic
Church)
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1861-2. By Gilbert Blount. Red brick
set in English bond with dressings of stone, black brick and
blue-glazed brick, spire of stone. 2-bay chancel, nave of 5
bays with north and south aisles, north tower and north-east
vestry.
EXTERIOR: all openings have stone hoodmoulds with voussoirs
above of black and blue-glazed brick, linked to springing
bands of the same materials. Window tracery a mixture of
geometrical and flamboyant. East window in the form of a
spherical triangle with flamboyant tracery. South-east chapel
under a pitched roof with angle buttresses, pointed-arched
east window with quatrefoil over 3 cusped lancets; 2 south
windows with stilted arches and quasi-quatrefoil over 2 cusped
lancets. South aisle of 5 bays, the windows pointed-arched
with a quatrefoil over 2 cusped lancets, buttresses between
the second, third and 4 bays from the west and between the
aisle and the south chapel; clerestory of 10 stilted
segmental-pointed arches with 2 cusped lancets each. Entrance
in western bay of south aisle, shoulder-arched under a pointed
arch with multi-moulded arch dying into deep chamfered jambs.
The north side is treated in the same way, except that the
tower abuts the second bay of the north aisle: tower of 3
stages with angle buttresses; pointed-arched entrance flanked
by engaged columns with foliage capitals supporting 2 orders
of moulded arches; gabled buttresses to either side with
gabled niches for statues; 2 lancets to second stage; paired
cusped lancets under a stilted pointed arch to belfry; corbel
table; broach spire with 2-light lucarnes. Single-storey
vestry partly under a pitched roof with two 3-light cusped
windows under a segmental arch flush with the wall, lower
parapeted part to west with pointed-arched entrance; low wall
to Upper North Street of brick with stone chamfered coping;
piers and railings survive west of the tower, but not to the
east.
(Builder: 3 August 1861, 8 March 1862).
Listing NGR: TQ3042204520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'The Builder' in 8 March, (1862)
'The Builder' in August 3, (1861)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
