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Other churches by C A Buckler are listed and St Thomas of Canterbury is a good urban church, austere on the outside and richly decorated on the inside. Whilst such decorative painted schemes were once fairly common, survival is rare.
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St Edward the Confessor is a church of considerable architectural and historic interest. It is also the repository of a rare collection of relics. Standing in a fine parkland setting, its churchyard surrounded by flint walls, it makes an important contribution to the conservation area.
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An attractive village church and satisfying essay in English gothic of c1300.
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A highly original post-war church in Midhurst, West Sussex that makes best use of its site. A good example of high quality materials and design.
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The church of Holy Cross is part of the Priory of the Dominican Order, which played a leading part in the Catholic Revival in and around Leicester. The present priory church is a substantial mid-20th century brick building in the Gothic style with a stately interior. In a Catholic context it is notable for its associations with Vincent McNabb OP, a prominent Catholic writer and apologist in the interwar years. The church makes a positive contribution to the New Walk Conservation Area.
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A fairly small Victorian Gothic Revival church in the Early English style by C. A. Buckler. Internal fittings of note include a fine painted apse ceiling, possibly by Nathaniel Westlake. The church is relatively little altered both outside and in, and makes a positive contribution to the local townscape.
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A nineteenth-century church by C. A. Buckler, uncharacteristically for him in the Early Christian style. Largely rebuilt after severe bomb damage, the interior is decorated lavishly with marble and mosaic work. The church occupies a prominent corner site and the tower is a local landmark.
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A very large and fine Gothic church, one of the first in England to be built by the revived Dominican Order. Its design by Charles Buckler follows continental Gothic models and incorporates earlier work by Gilbert Blount. The immensely long nave has fourteen side chapels which, with the window over the high altar, symbolise the fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary; this plan is unique in England. The chapels were furnished by private donors and retain their original late nineteenth-century fittings. The shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes was added in 1912-14, from designs by N.H.J. Westlake.
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The church was built with the adjoining house as a combined school and chapel, from designs by C. A. Buckler, a notable architect of the Gothic Revival. The interior of the church has been altered, but its external design and group value with the adjoining house make a positive contribution to the Shifnal Conservation Area.
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A former school with attached schoolmaster’s accommodation, built from designs by Peter Paul Pugin in the 1890s at the expense of the Gillow family of nearby Lilystone Hall. The building was converted to a church in 1937. It contains a number of historic furnishings of note from the chapel at Lilystone Hall.
