Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE WARLEY HILL, Warley
723-1/8/552 Church of Holy Cross and All Saints
21/10/92
(Formerly Listed as:
WARLEY HILL
Roman Catholic Church of Holy Cross
and All Saints)

II

Roman Catholic mission church. 1881. By FW Tasker. Extended
1886. Rock-faced Kentish ragstone with Lancaster stone
dressings. Slate roofs with coped gable ends. Plan: Nave,
chancel with bell-turret on SE corner and with Lady Chapel on
S side, the chapel on N side of chancel now contains the
organ; N and S aisles, the N aisle added in 1886; south porch.
Early English style.
EXTERIOR: the east end has 2 lancets and buttresses, the
centre buttress with Crucifixion above with canopy and
quatrefoil in gable; on left (SE) corner a circular turret
with arcaded belfry and short conical spire, all in ashlar.
Lower gable-ended roofs to N and S chapels, the Lady Chapel on
S has double span roof. Small lancets in lean-to aisles,
without clerestorey windows; the S aisle has gabled porch, the
N has integral vestry with small gabled dormer and
chimney-stack. Large rose window in W gable.
INTERIOR: 3-bay arcades, without capitals, the double chamfers
dying into piers. Arched brace nave roof supported on long
corbelled colonnettes. Similar colonnettes to stone ribs of
chancel vault. Romanesque arcading around chancel. Carved
stone reredos and altar by Thomas Earp, the altar with carved
relief of Last Supper has been moved forward. Stained glass E
windows of 1986 by J Lawson of Goddard and Gibbs.
Built as a mission church for the RC soldiers of Warley
barracks and donated by Countess Tasker.

Listing NGR: TQ5897091885

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584810

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)