Church of St Philip
CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, POPLAR GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392706
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Philip
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, POPLAR GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392706
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Philip
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, POPLAR 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:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, POPLAR GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50252 75976
Details
1641/1/10058 POPLAR GROVE 24-OCT-05 (West side) St Philip's Church
II Church. 1911-1913 with a vestry of 1922. Harry Bulkeley Cresswell, architect including work by Jim Pyment and Alec Miller and stained glass by Arild Rosenkrantz. Red brick laid in Flemish bond with a pantile roof. Nave with aisle, south transept and chancel with altar recess. Exterior: The south front has a gabled porch to left with a cambered arch above which is a relief panel showing saints and angels to either side of a cross bearing the chi-rho. To right of this and projecting slightly is the nave aisle which has 4 windows of Diocletian form with pointed heads. The transept to the right again has a similar taller window with a blank panel to its lower body. In the re-entrant angle between transept and chancel is the bellcote which projects. This has a hipped pantile roof and a series of receding offsets to the lower body and cambered arches to the head of the bell opening. The north [ritual east] end has a pointed arch window with two brick mullions. To the west front at right is the vestry added in 1922. Interior: The nave, chancel and altar recess each have a basket-arched barrel-vault. The 4 arches to the side aisle are broad and spring from low down. The font has a square, stone body which is gently flared. It has a Celtic plat to the rim and a rosette to each face and is raised on a circular stem above a square step. The altar rails, canopied aumbry, credence table, reredos, pulpit and lectern are all of oak and form a group. Items from this group are specifically recorded as carved by Jim Pyment and Alec Miller [formerly of the Guild of Handicraft]. The eastern window showing the Ascension is the work of Arild Rosenkrantz. This is a notable work by Harry Bulkeley Cresswell, a talented architect who¿s work is limited and therefore little known. It shows an inspired interpretation of Italian Gothic architecture and careful attention to detail and includes the work of two talented carvers from the Guild of Handicraft.
SOURCES: The Builder, 10 October 1924 Alan Crawford, C.R.Ashbee, 1985
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492893
- 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.
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