Church Of Our Lady Of Grace And St Teresa Of Avila

TQ 39 SE 1802/1/10011

KINGS ROAD (North-east side), Chingford E4 Church of Our Lady of Grace & St Teresa of Avila

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Roman Catholic church. Foundation stone laid 4 October 1930. GW Martyn architect. Brown brick in Sussex bond with Ketton stone dressings, oak timber frame and tiled roof. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: west tower, 5 bay nave with aisles, north and south transept chapels and south porch. EXTERIOR: west tower is of 2 stages and has crenellated parapet. Double cinquefoil-headed windows with hood mouldings and offset buttresses. Nave west front has large traceried window and central arched door case flanked by sidelights. Triple cinquefoil-headed light windows to nave flanked by buttresses and triangular rooflights. Large oak framed south porch with patterned curved braces and carved bargeboards. No change in roof pitch to chancel which has gabled transept chapels with large arched windows of triple ogees and rose window to east end. INTERIOR: Ketton stone arcade on octagonal columns. Unusual roof of Austrian oak is an amalgamation of arched braces and crownpost on elaborately carved corbels. West choir gallery has limed and gilded linenfold panelling and staircase with finely carved animals to newel posts and gallery front. Flooring of unglazed ceramic tiles to nave but green and white marble to chancel and chapels. The Lady Chapel has a contemporary stained glass window and an altar with a painted reredos. The Sacred Heart Chapel has a moulded stone pedestal for the figure of Christ and a Crown of Thorns stained glass cinquefoil window. The High Altar has an imposing stone reredos and elaborate limed and gilded oak panelling. This church has unusually fine materials and carving for the period and the choice of Gothic Revival style is most unusual for a Roman Catholic church.

Listing NGR: TQ3863594277