Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St. Ethelbert is a Grade II listed building in the Slough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Church. 3 related planning applications.

Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St. Ethelbert

WRENN ID
slow-solder-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Slough
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1984
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St. Ethelbert is a Roman Catholic church constructed between 1909 and 1910 in the Perpendicular style. It is built of flint with Bath stone dressings, string courses, and tile roofs, with a north-south orientation. The church features a north tower, a five-bay nave with aisles, a north-west porch, a north-east baptistery, a three-bay chancel, a three-light transeptal chapel at the north end of the chancel, and a west vestry.

The tower has three stages with angle buttresses, a coped battlemented parapet, and a short, lead-sheathed timber spire topped with a weathervane. It has two-light louvred bellstage openings on each face, quatrefoiled square windows on the north, east, and west sides at the second stage, and two-light windows on the east and west at the first stage. A large five-light north window with panelled tracery and a doorway beneath, featuring a moulded arch, hoodmould with square stops, and two boarded doors, is also present on the tower's north side.

The nave has five two-light clerestory windows to the east and west. The aisles feature two-light west windows, with four east windows (one shorter); the second from the north is a three-light window. West aisle windows are primarily two-light, with the first and third from the west being three-light. A north-west doorway has a moulded arch, two boarded doors, and a stoup to its right.

The porch displays angle buttresses, a moulded four-centered archway, and a niche in the gable end containing a virgin and child. It has two-light windows on the north and south sides. The baptistery also has angle buttresses and a two-light west window.

The chancel features angle buttresses, two tall two-light east windows, one tall and two short two-light west windows, and a large five-light south window with panelled tracery. The transeptal chapel is gabled with a bellcote to the south-east and a three-light east window with panelled tracery. The vestry has a four-centered door on its north side.

Inside, the nave has five bay arcades with moulded arches dying into octagonal piers with central shafts rising to a king post roof. The tower and chancel arches are also moulded, with the mouldings disappearing into the jambs. A foiled piscina is found near the east door. The chancel contains a king post roof over three bays, with low arches leading into east and west aisle chapels, and an organ gallery to the east. Historic fittings include a three-bay rood screen with panelled tracery, and a carved octagonal stone font within the baptistery.

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