Windsor – St Edward

March 12th, 2019  |  Uncategorised

Charles Alban Buckler (1825-1905) was a London architect who worked extensively for the Catholic Church in a long career beginning in the mid-1850s. In the Diocese of Portsmouth he also designed St Mary, East Hendred, Oxfordshire (1865).

St Edward’s is a large church in a late-thirteenth to early-fourteenth century style which was so popular in the mid-Victorian years. The massing and details are quite conventional but are confidently and well-handled. The interior is spacious and well-lit, and is rich in fittings, furnishings and decoration.

The church forms an important part of a group in a conservation area with the Gothic presbytery of 1883 and the former school (1890s).

East Hendred – St Mary

March 12th, 2019  |  Uncategorised

The epitome of Romantic feudal Catholicism. The church, linked presbytery and school are all by C. A. Buckler, a notable figure in the Gothic Revival, and form an attractive group of buildings to the south of Hendred House. The site has seen continuous Catholic worship since the Middle Ages.