Church Of St Silas With All Saints

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TQ3183SW PENTON STREET 635-1/64/678 (North side) 29/09/72 Church of St Silas with All Saints (Formerly Listed as: PENTON STREET Church of St Silas)

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Anglican church. 1860 by Samuel Sanders Teulon, completed 1863 by E.P.Loftus Brock; chancel added 1884. Kentish ragstone with dressings of stone, and white, yellow and red brick, roof of Welsh slate. Chancel, nave, south aisle, south-west tower. East end has three trefoiled lancets, the central one taller, and angle buttresses; pointed-arched entrance at east end of south aisle with engaged columns having foliage capitals, multi-moulded archivolt, original double doors, head of gauged white and yellow brick, and bracketed and gabled canopy. South aisle of six bays; five bays have one group of three lancets each under a pointed relieving arch, the tympanum filled with herringbone work in white and yellow brick, the second window from the east interrupted by a late C20 door. Offset above relieving arches; parapet interrupted by square, buttresslike piers with low pyramidal pinnacles, now apparently truncated. The clerestory windows are pointed-arched with two lancets below a rose, the rose exhibiting a different form of plate tracery in each window; the windows have heads of yellow brick, probably rebuilt and extending as springing bands, and rise above the parapet into their own gables. Two identical pointed-arched entrances, one occupying the westernmost bay of the south aisle and one beyond that: pointed arched entrance with engaged columns having foliage capitals and multi-moulded archivolt under hoodmould, head of gauged white and yellow brick, and a gable above each entrance, decorative in the case of the eastern entrance; pointed-arched doorcase with billet moulding to both entrances, original panelled door to left. The west end has three two-light lancets below blank quatrefoils, heads of gauged yellow brick which extend as sill and springing bands; two small outer lancets with bands of gauged yellow brick and a dripmould between them. Rose window in gable set in a spherical triangle of gauged yellow brick, the tracery of inventive geometrical form; lancet to apex of gable. South-west tower with two lancets to south, a band of white brick above with yellow brick diapering, stepped brick corbels to eaves, with red brick patterns between them, and pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: . Chancel of brick, painted, the rest of the interior plastered. Nave arcade of six bays; west gallery; some space at west end of nave enclosed in C20; wooden ceiling. Simple wooden pulpit in a Gothic style. (The Architectural Outsiders: Matthew Saunders: 'Samuel Teulon 1812-1873': London: 1985-).

Listing NGR: TQ3104883302