Description

TQ 48SW ST ANDREW'S ROAD
4/18 PLAISTOW E13

- Church of St Andrew

GV II

Offices, formerly church 1868-70 James Brooks. Boldly massed. Early English Gothic.
Squared coursed Kentish ragstone with asphalt dressings. Red tiled roofs. Lofty
clerestoreyed nave of four and a half bays. Lean-to north and south aisles projec-
ting south porch with original wrought iron gates. Unfinished central tower over
crossing. Cabled transept to south. North chapel heavily pinnacled with flying
buttresses. Short full-height eastern apse. Lancet windows to clerestory. West
end buttressed with central gabled double entrance door. Statue of St Andrew to
central pillar between doors. Interior ragstone-faced. Pointed arcades with
circular columns and foliated capitals. Stilted arcading to clerestory with windows
in alternative arches. Interior now sub-divided for offices with floor inserted
above arcade. Roof to apse visible upstairs, but roof otherwise encased.

Listing NGR: TQ4077882565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Andrew's Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26356042

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)