Roman Catholic Church Of The English Martyrs

SOUTHWARK

TQ3278 RODNEY ROAD 636-1/8/634 (South West side) 27/09/72 Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1902-3. By FW Tasker architect; altar and reredos by FG Broadbent & Partners, 1961; re-ordered 1980s. MATERIALS: yellow stock brick with random blue headers, red brick dressings and blue brick plinth; pitched slate roof with slender slated spirelet. STYLE: Early English Gothic. PLAN: asymmetrical rectangular building with west elevation on Flint Street, staircase turret; 1-storey Lady Chapel curved extension to right on Rodney Road. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with buttressed gable end with 3 tall lancets to west elevation, staircase turret to left. Gabled entrance to Lady Chapel extension with pointed arch and moulded red brick surround. Groups of 3 lancet windows in upper stage only to side elevations. INTERIOR: red brick. Tall nave of 5 bays with pointed arches, timber rafter roof and lofty side chapels with transverse pointed tunnel vaults, either side. Sanctuary is east extension of nave and has plastered walls with round blank arcading on ground stage, 3 cusped lancets above; rib-vaulted roof. Chancel arch on tall, single round shafts with arrises. Baptistry (formerly choir) at east end of south ambulatory. Lady Chapel extension to south has coffered ceiling and recessed windows in bays with splayed reveals and transverse rib vaults. Organ gallery at west end.

Listing NGR: TQ3279778616