Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer, St Wulstan and St Eadburga

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer, dedicated to St Wulstan and St Eadburga, was built between 1958 and 1959 to designs by Hugh Bankart. It is a building of group value.

The church is constructed of red brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with artificial stone dressings, and has a steel roof frame covered in clay Roman tiles. The plan is a simple rectangle.

The church is a single storey with high walls. The long sides are divided into five bays by brick buttresses, each bay featuring a rectangular window with a hollow-chamfered surround and small, rectangular paned metal windows set high in the wall. The west front has a flat-roofed narthex extending across most of its width, with the roof continuing beyond to form canopies over the side entrances. Above the narthex is a tripartite window with coloured glass. A corbel exists in the gable, presumably intended for a statue, although one was never installed. To the east, flat-roofed chapels flank the sanctuary, and lower, flat-roofed vestries run across the east end of the building.

The main entrance leads into a baptistery containing a stone font, centrally placed in the narthex and aligned with the altar. Confessionals are located to the right. The main worship space features a composition stone floor, plain plastered and painted walls, and a cambered ceiling. The sanctuary is set on a raised platform against the east wall and is flanked by round-headed openings leading to small side chapels, which have circular windows and are top-lit by circular roof-lights.

Original furnishings include the Portland stone high altar and the altars in the Blessed Sacrament and Lady chapels, all carved by Joseph Cribb of Ditchling. A hammered anodised figure of the Risen Christ against a cross, and the altar fittings in the side chapels are by Michael Murray. The octagonal stone font is by John Skelton and is set within a sunken circle. The low-relief Portland stone Stations of the Cross (two of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1959) were carved by Rosamund Fletcher of Oxford. Stained glass roundels in the Blessed Sacrament chapel (depicting the Last Supper) and Lady Chapel (depicting the Annunciation) are by Philip Brown. Later additions include a wrought iron and copper rail around the font by Alan Evans of Stroud, and a three-light dalle-de-verre glass window on the west side, by Dom Charles Norris of Buckfast Abbey.