Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE CHAPEL STREET
941-1/11/67 (East side)
27/09/79 Church of St Wilfrid

GV II*

Roman Catholic church. 1793, rebuilt 1879-80 by Ignatius
Scoles and S.J.Nichols. Red brick with much buff terracotta
cladding and dressings, slate roof. Nave on north-south axis,
with east and west aisles, east chapels and south apse.
Italian basilica style. Six-bay nave embraced by tall aisles.
High plinth dressed with sandstone, then rusticated terracotta
to ground floor level, with bands, frieze and cornice of
matching material. The gabled tripartite north front, the
centre breaking forwards slightly, has a large round-headed
doorway with very elaborate terracotta surround including
tympanum with reliefs, and flanking side doors in similar
style; a large circular window near the top flanked by
monograms and under an enriched pediment, and windows to the
tops of the aisles, of 2 round-headed lights, all these with
elaborate terracotta surrounds. The west side has high-set
round-headed windows with similarly elaborate surrounds.
INTERIOR: basilica form, with colonnades of massive Corinthian
columns in polished red marble mounted on square plinths of
black marble; coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling; marble cladding
to the walls and apse, in various hues, including giant
Corinthian pilasters; mosaic portraits of saints over arcade
to chapel; canted north gallery with ornamental cast-iron
balustrade.

Listing NGR: SD5376529221

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Wilfrid's Church, Preston at Wikipedia
• St Wilfrid's Church, Preston official website
• Wikidata Q15979521

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Old House Care and Repair