Church Of The Holy Name, Station Road, Oakley

The Church of the Holy Name, built in 1958 to a design by Charles W Gray, is a Romanesque revival church with an apse, a saddleback-roofed tower, and transepts. The windows were created by Gabriel Loire of Chartres. The church is rectangular in plan and constructed of whitewashed harl with contrasting sandstone ashlar dressings and stone cills. A rusticated base course and eaves course are also present. The windows are mainly round-headed, and the doorcases have roll-moulded ashlar detailing.

The east elevation is symmetrical. A crowstepped tower is located in the advanced central bay, featuring a broad flight of steps leading to a two-leaf boarded timber door set below a blind roll-moulded panel. Above the door is a round-headed window, and a louvered arrowslit is positioned above. Flanking bays have windows to the ground floor and gallery level, set below a sloping roof, with outer flat-coped square buttresses.

The south elevation consists of eight bays. A crowstepped porch breaks the eaves in the penultimate bay to the right, with steps leading to a deep-set two-leaf boarded timber door, and a carved figure above on a corbelled base. A blank bay occupies the outer right. A crowstepped transept is located in the penultimate bay to the left, with a tall window. To the outer left are three clearstorey windows over a lean-to vestry, featuring a door to the south and three small windows on the return to the west. The four central bays are defined by windows and dividing buttresses.

The west elevation has a stone-cross finialled gable, with a small canted apse at the centre, featuring windows to the north and south.

The north elevation also has eight bays, with four buttressed bays in the centre, each featuring a circular clearstorey window over an asymmetrically-fenestrated flat-roofed projection. A crowstepped transept is located in the penultimate bay to the left, the outer bay is blank. The penultimate bay to the right has a door in continuation of the flat-roofed projection and a square chimney stack projects to the outer right, with a low service wing projecting to the north.

The interior, which was not inspected in 1998, includes a vaulted nave with fixed timber pews and a broad chancel arch. Stained glass "dalle de verre" windows depicting stylized scenes from the life of Jesus are in the western clerestory. The eastern windows display symbols of the Eucharist. The eastern transept contains a depiction of "Our Lady," while two armorial windows are in the south chapel. Carved Stations of the Cross, created in 1967 by Loire, are also present.