Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery Of St Luke And St Teresa

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WINCANTON SOUTH STREET Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery of St Luke and St Teresa

15-AUG-02

GV II

Roman Catholic church and presbytery. 1881; by Canon A.J.C. Scoles. Stone rubble with freestone dressings, rock-faced west front and towers. Steeply-pitched Bridgwater clay tile roofs with small stone corbels under the eaves. PLAN: Nave with entrance under west gallery between twin west towers, north and south aisles with chapels at east ends, chancel with chapter house behind reredos and cloister on south side leading to chapter house and priory at east end; presbytery attached to south west. Early English style. EXTERIOR: Gabled west front has cusped rose window with statue niche in gable above and tall 5-light lancets below over the portal with double order of shafts, deeply moulded arch and carved tympanum with Carmelite arms; flanking towers with 1-, 2- and 3-light lancets and embattled parapets; flight of steps to west doorway. North and south 2-light clerestorey lancets, continued around the chancel apse. Chapel on south side of chancel has gable-ended roof with apex crosses rising above the south aisle, cinquefoil clerestorey windows and stone bell-cote over south cloister with wrought-iron cross; similar cinquefoil windows to vestry gables to the south east. The south cloister has 2-light square-headed windows. INTERIOR: Plastered walls and wagon roofs. 4-bay arcades with double-chamfered 2-centred arches and octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Similar tall chancel arch and chancel chapel 2-bay arcades with compound piers. Carved stone reredos with chapter house behind and altar in front with mosaic front. Marble arcaded Communion rail, carved wooden pulpit with canopy, very intricate wooden chapel and aisle altars, Crucifix hanging from chancel arch, gallery at west end, seating and stained glass. The Roman Catholic Church of St Luke and St Teresa is a good and very complete example of the work of the priest/architect Canon A.J.C Scoles.