Description

HOVE

TQ2904NE CAMBRIDGE ROAD
579-1/19/27 (West side)
Church of St Patrick and wall
fronting road

GV II

Church. 1858, minor additions 1870s. Architect Edward Kendall
junior. East window and NE window of nave designed by William
Butterfield. Early English style.
Kentish rag stone, stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges,
shallow pyramid slate roof to stump of tower.
Plan: abutting buildings to north and south, only the east
elevation is visible. The latter is the liturgical south front
and the following orientations are liturgical.
Cruciform plan, chancel with 2-bay south chapel abutting base
of SE tower, 3-bay north chapel, 6-bay aisled nave with
clerestory, SW porch with hallway or narthex.
Only the south front of the church is visible, gabled porch,
2-stage stair turret with ashlar tourelle, gabled clerestory
windows projecting through the nave roof, gabled tops to aisle
buttresses, large south window in gable end of south chapel,
buttressed stump of 2-stage tower with pyramid roof.
Interior; rendered, chancel stencilled and painted by Clayton
and Bell, 1890-1. Ceiled hammer beam roof to chancel with
carved wooden angels, similar open roof to nave without
angels. Much stained glass. Henry Willis organ installed 1856
in the north chapel, resited on the north wall of the tower
overlooking the chancel in 1906. Brass lectern by William
Butterfield 1873. Reredos by Somers Clark 1887. Pulpit of
stone and marble by Sir Gilbert Scott. Alabaster font with
tall gilded wooden canopy and pulley system installed in 1910.
Fourteen paintings of the Stations of the Cross, of a much
higher standard than those usually found; oil on canvass,
designed by Louis Ginnett and executed after his death in 1946
by Charles Knight, both local artists. Seating removed and
chairs arranged in a circle in the nave. The crypt, accessible
from the narthex, is used as a shelter for the homeless.
In the late C19 the church was famous throughout Brighton and
Hove for its music, having a surpliced choir of over 80 men
and boys. Critics referred to it as "Paddy's Music Hall". A
spacious interior, effectively lit, with a good collection of
late Victorian fittings.
(Dale A: Brighton Churches: 1989-).

Listing NGR: TQ2986404559

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Patrick And Wall Fronting Road at Wikipedia
• Church of St Patrick And Wall Fronting Road official website
• Wikidata Q7595058

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