Description

TM 59 SW
914-1/3/110

LOWESTOFT
PAKEFIELD ROAD (South West side)
Kirkley
Roman Catholic Church of St Nicholas

(Formerly listed as South Cliff United Reform Church)

II
Formerly known as: South Cliff Congregational Church PAKEFIELD ROAD. Church. 1900-3, with extension of 1949. By G.Baines. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roof with terracotta flashings. Arts and Crafts style. Nave, chancel and small ritual south-west tower. Windows in Perpendicular style with hoodmoulds. West end has 7-light window with jambs rising above gable as small pinnacles. Minature octagonal tower to left has ogee roof with finial. 3-stage tower to right has diagonal buttresses, single-light windows, bell chamber openings, ornamental parapet and inset spirelet. Nave sides are both similar with the addition of elaborate porch to north. 3- and 4-light windows, the latter in paired transept-like gables. Roof has octagonal lantern and fleche. Extensions to east.

INTERIOR: arcades formed by tapering posts. False hammerbeam roof and boarded ceiling. Naturalistic foliage corbels to transept arch.

Listing NGR: TM5407591128

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502216

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)