The Church Of The Immaculate Conception St John The Worker

SAXTON WITH SCARTHINGWELL SCARTHINGWELL LANE SE 43 NE 3/22D The Church of the Immaculate Conception St John The Worker

II Roman Catholic Church, former private chapel to Scarthingwell Hall. 1854, designed by Atkinson for Lord Hawkes, in the Neo-Norman style. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Nave with apsidal chancel. Moulded plinth and moulded sill band, Lonbard frieze at eaves. Ashlar coped gables with small square turret surmounting western gable. Apsidal east and has 7 tall round headed lancets. Nave has 4 tall round headed windows each divided into 2 lights with quatrefoils. To the south of the western gallery a C20, vestry, and a small gabled porch. West gable wall has 3 round headed niches, and, a smaller niche in the Gable. Interior has lavish plaster work decoration with a nibbed plaster vault in the apse, an ornate, round chancel arch, segment arched plaster vault over nave with 4 round arches surrounding the windows. Western wooden gallery supported in 3 arched western arcade reached by small staircase. The gallery now contains an organ, but it was almost certainly designed as the family pew, it has a ribbed round arched plaster vault.

Listing NGR: SE4921836868