Description

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SO89NE
895-1/4/91

WOLVERHAMPTON,
TETTENHALL ROAD (North side),
Church of St Jude

03/02/77
II

Church. 1867-9, by George Bidlake; later C19 spire by
T.H.Fleeming. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; tile
roofs. Chancel and north organ loft and south vestry; 4-bay
nave with transepts and lean-to aisles; south west steeple.
Decorated Gothic style. Chancel has coped gable and shallow
offset buttresses; 4-light east window and traceried lancet to
north; gabled organ loft has 2-light window; vestry has
gablet, 3-light window and stack to east. Transepts have
4-light windows; aisles have 2-light windows between shallow
offset buttresses; north aisle has 3-light window to west of
gabled porch and 2-light west window; clerestories have
2-light segmental-pointed windows; 4-light west window has
trefoil over and gable cross. 4-stage tower to left has angle
buttresses and south-west stair turret; west entrance of one
order on squat shafts and south 2-light window with plate
tracery, weathering over; 2nd stage has lancets; 3rd stage has
roundels for clock faces; top stage has 2-light louvred bell
openings; top openwork parapet with pinnacles and flying
buttresses to octagonal spire.
INTERIOR: chancel arch with short corbelled shafts, scissor
trusses to roof; arcading to east wall with central reredos
with roof and gablet on marble shafts flanked by Creed and
Commandment panels; timber altar; nave arcades on round
polished granite piers with stiff leaf capitals and similar
arches to transepts; C20 false ceiling; low glazed screens to
west. Stalls with arcaded fronts; brass altar rail; timber
pulpit on stone base has parquetry in arcading, bowed seat to
left; brass lectern with angels on pinnacles; octagonal font
on squat pier, richly carved arcading. Stained glass to east
window, 1869, and to west window; chancel south wall memorial
to Mary Davis (d.1886) with richly carved Gothic aedicule;
south transept has war memorial.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.325).

Listing NGR: SO8977399396

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503613

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)