St Wilfrids Flats is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1981. Church, old people's home. 2 related planning applications.
St Wilfrids Flats
- WRENN ID
- pitched-gravel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1981
- Type
- Church, old people's home
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Wilfrid's Flats is a former church, now an old people's home, located on Elm Grove in Brighton. The foundation stone was laid in 1932, and the building was completed in 1934. It was designed by H.S. Goodhart-Rendel and constructed by George Lynn and Sons Ltd. The church features brown Keymer brick in Dutch bond, concrete-cased steel, and reinforced concrete, with a roof made of pantiles.
The layout includes a chancel, nave, north and south passage aisles, north and south chapels, a tower over the chancel, and a vestry at the north-east corner. The exterior has segmental-arched windows, with a blank east end. The saddleback tower spans the width of the church and is set back slightly. The broad sides of the tower are unwindowed, while the north side has two tall windows with architraves made of slightly recessed brickwork, positioned between shallow brick buttresses. Above these are another pair of shorter windows under a corbelled brick archivolt, with a cross of blue tiles featuring gold mosaic joints between them. The north side chapel has a catslide roof and is unwindowed on the northern face, with a matching window to the west. The nave originally had five bays, with piers projecting as haunches above the roof. There is a gabled north-east porch, and the west end is slightly canted, featuring two windows, of which only the upper one is original. The vestry has two tiers of windows, with only the upper one being original, and there is a screen wall on the north side between the porch and vestries.
The interior has been completely altered to accommodate housing, but the south arcade and the space under the tower remain unobstructed. In the former side chapel to the north, there is a mural painting by Hans Feibusch from 1940.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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