Church Of The Holy Name, Station Road, Oakley

Charles W Gray, 1958: windows by Gabriel Loire of Chartres. Rectangular-plan, Romanesque revival church with apse, saddleback-roofed tower and transepts. Whitewashed harl with contrasting sandstone-ashlar dressings and stone cills. Rusticated base course and eaves course. Mainly round-headed windows; roll-moulded ashlar doorcases.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Crowstepped tower to advanced centre bay with broad flight of steps up to 2-leaf boarded timber door below blind roll-moulded panel, round-headed window at gallery height and louvered arrowslit above. Flanking bays with windows to ground and

gallery below sloping roof, and outer flat-coped square buttresses.

S ELEVATION: 8-bay elevation with crowstepped porch breaking eaves in penultimate bay to right, steps up to deep-set 2-leaf boarded timber door, carved figure above on corbelled base; blank bay to outer right. Crowstepped transept in penultimate bay to left with tall window, 3 clearstorey windows to outer left over lean-to vestry with door to S and 3 small windows on return to left (W). Window and dividing buttresses to each of 4 centre bays. All windows round-headed.

W ELEVATION: stone-cross finialled gabled elevation, small canted apse at centre with windows to N and S.

N ELEVATION: 8-bay elevation with 4 buttressed bays to centre, each with circular clearstorey window over asymmetrically- fenestrated flat-roofed projection; crowstepped transept in

penultimate bay to left, outer bay blank. Penultimate bay to right with door in continuation of flat-roofed projection, square chimney stack projecting to outer right, and low service wing projecting to N.

INTERIOR: (not seen 1998). Vaulted nave with fixed timber pews and broad chancel arch. Stained glass dalle de verre windows depicting stylised scenes from the life of Jesus in the W clerestorey, E windows with symbols of the Eucharist, E transept with 'Our Lady', 2 armorial windows in S chapel. Carved Stations of the Cross, 1967, also by Loire.