CHURCH OF ST RICHARD

CHURCH OF ST RICHARD, SYDNEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385286
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST RICHARD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST RICHARD, SYDNEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385286
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST RICHARD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST RICHARD, SYDNEY 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 ST RICHARD, SYDNEY ROAD

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:: Haywards Heath
National Grid Reference:: TQ3329024701

Details

TQ 32 SW 1349/4/10009 04-OCT-00

HAYWARDS HEATH SYDNEY ROAD CHURCH OF ST RICHARD

II

Church. Designed by Kier Hett in 1937, opened 1938 but chancel completed in 1942. Style is a mixture of Art Deco and Scandinavian. Structure of reinforced concrete but clad in local brick in English bond with tiled roof. Cruciform shape. 5 bay nave with aisles, 3 bay chancel, chapel in north transept and baptistery in south transept. Steeply pitched roof with hipped dormers with leaded lights, 4 to nave and 2 to chancel. Main entrance through south transept which has large gable with weatherboarded gablet on wooden brackets forming bellcote. Round-headed leaded light window and stepped parapetted porch having central shallow pediment with cross and date 1938 and round-headed entrance flanked by brick pilasters. West front has large gable with central set back round-headed window with leaded lights. Doorcase has large ribbed concrete lintel with flattened pediment above with cross and recessed doorcase with double doors flanked by sidelights. North transept has gable with 2-light window with round-headed tympanum above and 4-light window below. Flat roofed vestry in south east angle. East gable has no windows but instead a large tiled inlaid cross. INTERIOR: Porch in north transept has double doors with leaded lights and linenfold panels with good metal fittings. Concrete hexagonal-ribbed crossing and octagonal-ribbed nave and chancel. Nave has balcony at west end with cast iron and oak patterned handrail incorporating four crosses. Wooden winder staircase to it has chrome handrail. Original pews. South transept has later C20 stained glass depicting Virgin and Child, octagonal tapering stone font with cross and wave decoration and octagonal font cover with dove. North transept has 'GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO'. Wooden winder staircase leading to it has chrome handrail. South chapel below has original wooden pews and altar rails and square metal ceiling lights. Later C20 stained glass window of St Richard of Chichester and Virgin, Child and shepherds. Octagonal oak pulpit on tapering stone base and chair. Oak floor. Chancel has three steps and stone floor and is dated June 6th 1942. Piscina to south east and cupboard to north east.

Listing NGR: TQ3329024701

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Legacy System number:: 485748
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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