Description

The following building shall be added:

BRACKLEY ROAD
TQ 37 SE
(east side)
785-/1/10010 CHURCH OF ST PAUL
II

Parish church. Nave of 1868 and tower of 1872, architects
Smith and Williams, with porch, clergy vestry and choir vestry
added in 1884 by Sydney J Bartlett architect of Kirkdale,
Beckenham and extension on south side of church added by
Gordon Cook in the 1960s. English Decorated style. Built of
Kentish rags tone with slate roof. Nave of 5 bays with N and S
aisles, chancel and SW tower with steeple. Tower is of 3
stages, surmounted by a broached stone spire with lucarnes.
The top or bell stage has 2 double trefoliated openings with
louvred openings. Second stage has trefoliated lancet to each
face surmounted by clock. First stage has trefoliated opening
and turret. Pointed arched doorcase with colonnettes and
trefoliated arched doorcase with floral decoration to
spandrels. Angle buttresses. West window is traceried with
trefoliated lancets and 6-pointed star. Aisles have 5 windows
with double trefoliated windows with drip-mouldings separated
by buttresses. Chancel has similar windows and large west
window replaced after war damage in 1940 by W Aiken of Sutton.
Interior of nave has stone arcade resting on round piers. Roof
of arch-braced type supported on stone corbels. Original
wooden pews and octagonal carved pulpit on marble base.
Alabaster chancel wall (metal screen missing since Second
World War) by Messrs Bartlett c1884. Font replaced in 1913 by
a copy of Thorwaldsen's font carved in Rome in 1823 by Evelyn
Hellicar. Aisles have arch-braced roofs and north chancel
aisle has 2 windows by Clayton and Bell, "The Good Shepherd"
and "The Light of the World". Chancel retains to south wall a
fragment of a mural decoration by Clayton and Bell
illustrating "The Marriage Feast at Cana".

[ Pevsner BOE "London 2 South" p159. ]

Listing NGR: TQ3699470404

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545683

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