Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery (Sion House)

TIVERTON

SS9413 LONGDRAG HILL, Tiverton 848-1/5/347 (South side) 12/02/52 Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery (Sion House) (Formerly Listed as: SOUTH MOLTON ROAD Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery)

GV II

Roman Catholic Church and attached presbytery. 1836-9, to the designs of GA Boyce, on land given by the Chichesters of Calverleigh Court. Church in Gothic Revival style and Sion House in Tudor Gothic Style. CHURCH EXTERIOR: 4-bay nave and 2-bay chancel, in Gothic Revival style with offset buttresses and hoodmoulds over windows and west door. Chancel has cinquefoil-headed lights, and 4-light east window with elaborate rose above similar lights. Nave has 2-light windows with quatrefoils above cinquefoil-headed lights; small quatrefoil light in west gable, above porch with offset corner buttresses and pointed moulded arch set on engaged shafts. CHURCH INTERIOR: has shallow 4-centred arch braces to ceiling; coloured glass borders to windows.

PRESBYTERY EXTERIOR: of 2 storeys, symmetrically composed with double-gabled west front; this has flat-headed Gothic-style windows, the upper tier distinguished by the mouchettes set above ogee-arched cinquefoil-headed lights. Other elevations have mullioned windows, the left-hand gable adjoining the church having a crest set above mullioned windows with C16-style pointed-arched lights. PRESBYTERY INTERIOR: not inspected. A distinctive group by a notable local architect. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 811).

Listing NGR: SS9476013137