Emmanuel Church

Emmanuel Church is an Anglican church built between 1897 and 1903, designed by architects R Whitfield and JA Thomas. The church features a basilican plan with a red brick structure and stone dressings, topped with a tiled roof. The layout includes a chancel and the first four bays completed in 1898, while the west end was finished in 1903. The tower is only partially constructed, with just the ground and first floor built.

The church has north and south lean-to aisles consisting of five bays, with an apsidal east end and a 'Salisbury' chapel located at the southeast corner. The entrance is through a north porch that faces Lyncroft Gardens, which originally served as the base of the tower. The chancel is lower than the nave and features a clerestory.

The exterior showcases five bays separated by brick buttresses, with paired Early English lights in the clerestory, adorned with brick moulding and a dentilled cornice above. The aisles contain three-light lancet windows, also featuring brick moulding and a dentilled cornice. At the west end, there is a narthex leading to a small apsidal chapel with its own roof, and a three-light window with brick mouldings on the western apse. The east end is highlighted by a five-light lancet window, while the west end has a grouping of three lancets flanked by single lancets.

Inside, the church is constructed of white brick with red brick bands and features a tall five-bay nave with aisles. The arcades consist of pointed arches supported by clustered columns, with an arcade at the west end that separates the nave from the narthex. The roof is barrel-vaulted and made of open timber. The clerestory has paired lancet windows, while the aisle windows are plain glazed three-light lancets. The chancel includes a reredos depicting the Last Supper, designed in 1908 by JA Thomas, along with a carved oak pulpit from 1901 and a mosaic floor.

Three windows at the east end illustrate scenes from the Life of Jesus, created in 1903. The church also features a brass eagle lectern from 1898 and a baptistry in the apse at the west end, which includes a Gothic Revival stone font supported by marble colonnettes, dating from 1898, with an oak cover added in 1902. Stained glass from 1904 depicts themes related to the Baptismal service, including a window donated by architect JA Thomas in memory of his partner R Whitfield, who passed away in 1901. The Salisbury Chapel was furnished in 1952 by painter Frank Salisbury.