Catholic Church And Presbytery Attached

TL 3629 7/35

BUNTINGFORD STATION ROAD (west side) Catholic Church and Presbytery attached

GV II

The Benson Memorial Catholic Church dedicated to St Richard of Chichester, and presbytery attached. 1915 by Arthur Young, later S extension to presbytery. Uncoursed knapped flint with limestone dressings. Steep red tiled roofs. Traditional church in Decorated style with nave, lower chancel, NE Lady Chapel, W tower with spire, N porch, and 2-storeys presbytery linked to S side facing E, with single-storey S extension. Crenellated tower with copper spike and vane, 4-centred arched 2-light bell openings with band at sill level, diagonal W buttresses, and tall statue of saint with spade on buttress at NE corner of tower. Dec stone tracery windows and diagonal buttresses elsewhere. Interior has waggon roof with moulded battens, carved bosses, and cresting on wallplate. Octagonal font or fluted shaft. Low gabled link at SE to presbytery of similar materials, with asymmetrical front. Ground floor has a long band of trefoil headed stone windows under a hoodmould, 4 lights to left and 5 lights to right of arched doorway with quartrefoil carved spandrels. 3 2-light and 3-light chamfered stone upper windows with sills joined by a band. (Pevsner (1977) 117).

Listing NGR: TL3633829239