Description

MANSFIELD

SK5361 CHESTERFIELD ROAD SOUTH 924-1/5/25 (South West side) 18/01/94 Church of St Philip Neri and attached presbytery

GV II

Roman Catholic church and attached presbytery. Dated 1925. By Charles A Easdon of London. Brick with ashlar dressings and Roman tile roof. Chancel with apse and side chapels, nave with clerestorey, aisles, north chapel and baptistry. EXTERIOR: east end has blind apse with pilaster buttresses and copper dome, flanked by square side chapels with plain parapets and single round east windows. Chancel has square corner buttresses with caps, and a round-arched window set high on each side. East gable has a square bell turret with cornice and blocking course, topped with a Celtic cross. Single round-arched opening. Nave, 5 bays, has concave ramped buttresses. Clerestorey has 5 round-arched windows on each side. Pedimented west gable has central round-arched niche with keystone and imposts, containing figure. On either side, a round-arched window with apron. Central doorway with double flanking shafts, cornice and double doors, with semicircular hood and relief carving in tympanum. On either side, a round-arched window with apron. Aisles have plain parapets, and single round windows in the west ends. No side windows. South aisle has to east a flat-roofed corridor linked to the presbytery, with a door to left and 2 windows to right. North aisle has to east a projecting chapel, with 3 flat-headed windows, flanked by large pedimented gables, each with a round window. Segmental curved west end has 3 flat-headed windows. The flat-headed windows have stone surrounds. Presbytery, to south, has hipped plain tile roof and 2 side wall and single ridge stacks. 2 storeys; 3 bays. Projecting central bay has rusticated brick pilasters. On each floor, a 12-pane sash flanked by single 8-pane sashes, all with keystones. To left, 2 small windows. To right, entrance bay with round-arched margin-glazed window and below, painted stone doorcase with cornice. To right again, projecting hipped bay with two 12-pane sashes, and below, a 3-light window. Garden front has in the centre two 12-pane sashes on each floor, with keystones. On either side, a canted 2-storey bay window with three 12-pane sashes on each floor. INTERIOR is plastered and painted. Chancel has moulded round arch with square marble piers with pedestals and moulded caps. Barrel vault with cross panel. Single moulded round arch on each side, leading to side chapels, with a round-headed window above it. Apse has panelled walls with paintings and Corinthian pilasters, and mosaic panelled dome. Side chapels have 2 bay blind arcades with wall paintings and wooden screens with pedimented central opening. Nave has 5-bay arcades with Ionic columns, moulded round arches and clerestorey sill band. Panelled barrel vault with moulded wooden ribs on corbels. West end has panelled semicircular gallery with organ, and below it, a wooden porch with pairs of glazed doors. Aisles have moulded cornices and span beams on brackets. South aisle has 12 bay arcade with moulded arches, containing 5 doors. To east, a double door to the vestry, and an arch to the side chapel. North aisle has to east 3 large round arches, the central one with solid tympanum and round-headed niche with figure, flanked by shouldered doorways, the right one with a wrought-iron gate. Eastern arch to chapel of St Ann, with moulded wall panels and irregular groin vault. Western arch with wrought-iron screen to Baptistry with panelled walls and groin vault. To west again, a 4-bay blind arcade. FITTINGS: fluted alabaster font on 4 volutes arranged as a cross. Marble altar with suspended canopy. Marble and alabaster balustraded altar rails with wrought-iron gates, to apse and side chapels. Folding panelled pulpit and lectern, panelled choir stalls and plain benches.

Listing NGR: SK5353861536

External Links

• St Philip Neri Church at Wikipedia
• St Philip Neri Church official website
• Wikidata Q26509060

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