Description

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WARWICK

SP 2764 WEST STREET

8/10004 CHURCH OF ST MARY
Roman Catholic Church

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1859-60 by Edward Welby Pugin. Red brick with
stone dressings. Slate roof with gabled west end and semi-conical east
end.
PLAN: Nave with gallery at west end, apsidal sanctuary and North and
South aisles with east chapels. High Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: The west gable has large plate-tracery rose window in moulded
pointed arch flanked by buttresses , quadruple pointed arch windows below
and statue niche to right, the whole west front is divided by broad stone
bands, the lowest band continues into gallery turret on right and on
left pointed arch doorway into end of lean-to aisle. On the sides
above the aisles sexfoil clerestory windows. On ridge set back behind
the west gable a timber bellcote with a slate spire with a wrought
iron cross. Similar crosses over apse and galley stair tower.
INTERIOR: Is lighted from the clerestory and west window only and the
nave and apse are in one and have an arched brace roof on corbels with
exposed purlins and rafters. Plastered walls with painted decoration.
3-bay N & S arcades with moulded pointed arches on circular piers.
Painted bands above arcades continue into apse where there are painted
roundels of the Saints by Alphege Pippet of Hardman and Co. High in
apse a sexfoil window in a pointed arch flanked by cusped lancets with
colonettes. The clerestory windows have pointed rear arches. At the
west end a timber gallery with organ. Painted stations of the cross
in blind aisle windows. Sanctuary reordered. Carved stone altar panel
depicting the last supper and stone reredos with angels in arcade.
Stone Polygonal pulpit. Benches complete. Stained glass by Tony Drury.

Listing NGR: SP2796064565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick at Wikipedia
• St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick official website
• Wikidata Q7590493

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