Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE BOND STREET, Sneinton
646-1/7/802 (North East side)
12/07/72 Church of St Alban

II

Church and adjoining parish rooms and railings. 1886-87. By GF
Bodley; this design was left incomplete. Lady Chapel 1898.
Parish rooms c1900. Red brick with ashlar dressings, some
painted, with slate roofs. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: nave and chancel, 7 bays, under continuous roof, aisles,
lady chapel, south porch.
EXTERIOR: plinth, polychrome bands, coped gables, plain
parapets to aisles. Pointed arched windows with Decorated
tracery. East end has a 5-light window flanked by 3-light
aisle windows, all set high. West end has a similar window,
4-lights. South side has four windows, 3 lights, divided by
gabled buttresses, with an off-centre gabled bell turret on
the parapet. To east, a pointed arched doorway, then the lady
chapel. North side has 5 similar windows and projecting west
bay with pointed arched door in the base of an uncompleted
tower. Over the door, a single lancet.
Lady chapel, single storey, has flat-headed windows on 3
sides, with stone surrounds and mullions. South porch has
polychrome gable with pointed arched doorway and shafts.
Parish room, single storey, has a central gable to south,
divided by buttresses and with a large Diocletian window.
Wings have eaves cornices. To left, a double door with cornice
on brackets. To right, a glazing bar window. Attached to the
west end, wrought-iron railings and gate, enclosing the south
porch.
INTERIOR: has pointed arched wooden barrel vault with moulded
ribs. Nave and chancel have similar arcades with moulded
arches and quatrefoil piers. Chancel has 3 narrower arches to
north and 2 to south, and traceried wooden screen with crest
and cross. To south-east, a segment-arched recess. East end
has a pointed arched recess with shafts, containing the window
and canopied flanking niches.
Aisles have arch braced lean-to roofs, window openings with
shafts, and wooden screens to eastern chapels. North aisle has
to west a doorway and a stone staircase with a blind-arcaded
screen. South aisle has central stained glass window, mid C20.
East chapels have stained glass windows, late C19 and early
C20. South chapel has piscina and 2 doorways into lady chapel.
Fittings include carved and painted octagonal font, panelled
square wooden pulpit, stoup and collecting box on stems, C19.
Other fittings mid and late C20.
Memorials include wooden war memorial panel, c1920.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 250).

Listing NGR: SK5816339927

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Alban's Church, Sneinton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7592240

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)