Church Of Holy Cross And All Saints

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE WARLEY HILL, Warley 723-1/8/552 Church of Holy Cross and All Saints 21/10/92 (Formerly Listed as: WARLEY HILL Roman Catholic Church of Holy Cross and All Saints)

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Roman Catholic mission church. 1881. By FW Tasker. Extended 1886. Rock-faced Kentish ragstone with Lancaster stone dressings. Slate roofs with coped gable ends. Plan: Nave, chancel with bell-turret on SE corner and with Lady Chapel on S side, the chapel on N side of chancel now contains the organ; N and S aisles, the N aisle added in 1886; south porch. Early English style. EXTERIOR: the east end has 2 lancets and buttresses, the centre buttress with Crucifixion above with canopy and quatrefoil in gable; on left (SE) corner a circular turret with arcaded belfry and short conical spire, all in ashlar. Lower gable-ended roofs to N and S chapels, the Lady Chapel on S has double span roof. Small lancets in lean-to aisles, without clerestorey windows; the S aisle has gabled porch, the N has integral vestry with small gabled dormer and chimney-stack. Large rose window in W gable. INTERIOR: 3-bay arcades, without capitals, the double chamfers dying into piers. Arched brace nave roof supported on long corbelled colonnettes. Similar colonnettes to stone ribs of chancel vault. Romanesque arcading around chancel. Carved stone reredos and altar by Thomas Earp, the altar with carved relief of Last Supper has been moved forward. Stained glass E windows of 1986 by J Lawson of Goddard and Gibbs. Built as a mission church for the RC soldiers of Warley barracks and donated by Countess Tasker.

Listing NGR: TQ5897091885