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Church of St Patrick and Wall Fronting Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Brighton and Hove, The City of Brighton and Hove

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.826 / 50°49'33"N

Longitude: -0.1575 / 0°9'27"W

OS Eastings: 529864

OS Northings: 104559

OS Grid: TQ298045

Mapcode National: GBR JP3.30R

Mapcode Global: FRA B6KX.8H6

Plus Code: 9C2XRRGR+CX

Entry Name: Church of St Patrick and Wall Fronting Road

Listing Date: 2 November 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1280980

English Heritage Legacy ID: 365505

Also known as: St Patrick's Church, Hove

ID on this website: 101280980

Location: Hove, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN3

County: The City of Brighton and Hove

Electoral Ward/Division: Brunswick and Adelaide

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Hove St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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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

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