December 2nd, 2020 | Uncategorised
A thoughtful essay in the lancet Gothic style, designed by J. C. Buckler in 1834-41 for the Jerningham family of Costessey Hall. The plan of a long nave and two-bay chancel was the first of the Gothic Revival in Norfolk. The conscious use of the thirteenth century lancet style and the accomplished furnishings demonstrates Buckler’s […]
November 26th, 2020 | Uncategorised
An attractive small Gothic country church of the 1870s, built from designs by C. A Buckler for the Hon William North and his wife Frederica, of Kirtling Tower, who were Catholic converts. A presbytery was built about the same time, in the style of a Tudor lodge. The buildings frame the approach to and form […]
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A neat, restrained 1859 essay in red brick Gothic style by C. A. Buckler, terminating internally with a well-constructed apse roof. Furnishings of note include two carved stone panels of the reredos from the Hansoms’ nearby priory, demolished in 1967. The church and attached later presbytery make a positive contribution to the local conservation area.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A small, simple brick Gothic design of the 187os by C. A. Buckler, for the owner of Hadzor House. The church has an attractive and characterful interior and with the adjoining former school lies in an idyllic rural setting.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A large Gothic Revival church of the 1850s in a Geometrical style of c.1300 by a well-known Catholic architect. It has an impressive, spacious interior with some fine fittings, including a G. F. Bodley organ case.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A former workhouse chapel in lancet Gothic style, converted to Catholic use in 1979. The mid-nineteenth century chapel is architecturally complete, and has some good carved stone detailing. The internal fittings include a number of items by A. W. Pugin, Charles Hansom and others, brought here from local Catholic centres which have passed out of use.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A striking and inventive church by Leonard Stokes, one of the most original Catholic architects of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Despite ruthless simplification in a 1970s re-ordering, the interior has retained something of its original character. The attached presbytery is contemporary and also by Stokes, and both make a positive contribution to the local conservation area.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Cathedral church of the Diocese. As originally built by A.W.N. Pugin in 1841-48 this was the largest Catholic church in England, and the obvious choice of a Cathedral for the new Diocese of Southwark, created in 1850. The Cathedral contains a number of important furnishings by Pugin and his son Edward. The building was badly damaged by wartime bombing and rebuilt in a different form by Romilly Craze. The new design impresses in its overall massing, although the non- completion of the tower detracts from the building’s impact in the townscape and the detailing is rather dry and lacking in vigour. The same cannot be said of the Harry Clarke stained glass, the most successful of the post-war additions to the Cathedral. The building occupies a prominent corner site opposite the Imperial War Museum. Frederick Walters’s ancillary buildings lie to the rear and are in medieval domestic style, possibly influenced by nearby Lambeth Palace.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A post-war church brick church, in its character bearing some resemblance to the Art Deco churches of Cachemaille-Day and the industrial buildings of Giles Gilbert Scott. The striking staggered plan form was driven by a functional need to reduce noise from the adjacent railway line. The church is little altered and retains a complete set of internal furnishings of high quality. It replaced a 19th-century church destroyed in 1941 by enemy action. The church lies within the Camberwell New Road conservation area, but makes a relatively modest contribution to the local scene, being set well back from the main road and bounded on one side by the high viaduct of a railway line.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A modest Gothic Revival church, serving a poor district. The original small church by Buckler survives as the Lady Chapel; this was considerably enlarged ten years later by the addition of a nave and chancel by John Adams, a local architect. Adams’s additions are influenced by the plain polychrome brick Gothic style popularised by James Brooks, whose nearby church of the Ascension, Lavender Hill was begun in 1876. The interior is very plain but there are some furnishings of note, particularly the marble altars. The church, presbytery and surrounding former convent buildings, possibly by F A Walters, form a good group and make a positive contribution to the Battersea Park Conservation Area.
