Church of St Alban
CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COPNOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387029
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COPNOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387029
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COPNOR ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COPNOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 66031 01845
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU60SE COPNOR ROAD, Copnor 774-1/4/131 (East side) 25/09/72 Church of St Alban
II
Church. 1914. By Sir Charles Nicholson (west end rebuilt following Second World War bomb damage, 1956, by Dykes Bower). Red brick in English bond. Plain tiled roofs. Simplified Neo-Gothic style. PLAN: 5-bay nave and aisles, chancel 3-bays, north Lady Chapel and south vestry. West bell tower. EXTERIOR: north face of aisle has 5 narrow lancet windows with diamond pattern leaded lights each set under brick header pointed arch, brick sill. Brick buttress at far left, far right and centre. 7 similar clerestory windows to nave. Chancel has 3 long narrow lancet windows with flanking buttresses to centre window. Projecting from chancel is a low flat-roofed Lady Chapel with two, and on left return (west) one 3-light stone mullioned window each set under ogee stone lintel, rusticated stone jambs and sill. To right of aisle is a porch with lean-to roof; recessed 2-leaf boarded door with panelled overlight set under brick pointed arch. Each face of lower roofed chancel has 2 tall lancet windows set within recessed brick face. Facing stone coped gable. East face of south vestry has 3 small lancet headed windows, lean-to roof with brick coped parapet. South face of nave and chancel have similar lancet windows to north. At centre of west face of nave is a 2-leaf boarded door set under flat concrete lintel and approached by open arcaded 3-bay portico with pointed brick arches. Over entrance within facing gable is a stone traceried rose window. To left is a 2-stage brick bell tower. 1st stage with lancet window and narrower 2nd stage with 2 lancet windows on each side, brick dentilled eaves and pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: nave arcades have octagonal stone piers and pointed arches. Roof king post trusses with slightly pitched panelled ceiling. Flat panelled ceiling to aisles with painted timber beams. Chancel has square pattern flat timber ceiling with red painted beams and gold leafed base, at intersection. West end windows have stained glass. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 131, 132; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1973-: 434, 435; Offord John: Churches, Chapels and Place of Worship on Portsea Island: Southsea: 1989-: 12).
Listing NGR: SU6610802158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474445
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 131,132
Pevsner, N, Lloyd, D, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1973), 434,435
Offord, J, Churches Chapels and Places of Worship on Portsea Island, (1989), 12
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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