Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 QUEEN STREET
1012-1/9/111 (South side)
22/03/83 No.76
Church of St Joseph and adjoining
presbytery

GV II

Roman Catholic Church. 1915. By Scoles and Raymond.
MATERIALS: polygonal coursed Devon limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: aisled.
EXTERIOR: tall gabled north, street, facade to the church has
tall flanking octagonal turrets with gabled and panelled
facets to tops; stone cross to the apex and a triple niche
with a statue to the centre over a 6-cusped circular window. 5
equal trefoil-headed lancets rest on a sill band above double
planked doors and a gold mosaic tympanum to a moulded pointed
arch with colonettes. A hoodmould to the arch continues over
similar 2-light windows flanking the door. The sill band
continues below parapets to castellated single-storey canted
wings to each side which have continuous hoodmoulds over a
trefoil-headed window to each facet of the left-hand wing and
a 2-light Decorated style window to the front of the
right-hand wing.
PRESBYTERY to left has an external stack to the left gable end
and a left-of-centre ridge stack. Double-depth plan. 2
storeys; 3-window range. Moulded kneelers coping of gable
ends, a central forward-facing gable and a small half dormer
to the left. Horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sash windows,
those to the first floor with shallow pointed arches, those to
the ground floor with shouldered arches. Windows to the
central gable and ground-floor left are under relieving
arches. The range to the left attached to the church is C20
with flat arches to paired windows and a C20 door to the right
of the central gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected but reported as having plain fittings
and Perpendicular-style arcades.
A remarkably conservative example of a church in this almost
pre-Ecclesiological style.
(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 587).

Listing NGR: SX8640471333

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548293

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