Description

TL 04NW KEMPSTON URBAN BEDFORD ROAD

2/90 Church of the Transfiguration -

- II

Parish church. 1938-40. By J. Harold Gibbons FRIBA. Largely paid for by legacy from Anne Charles-Williamson. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Hipped clay tile roofs. Oriented roughly N-S (following orientations are therefore liturgical). Nave, S aisle, N aisle, Chancel, E chapel on higher level, S porch adjoining projecting gable and bellcote. Style is mixture of simplified Gothic and Arts and Crafts movement. Nave has clerestory to S only, with windows of 3 cinquefoiled lights under square heads. Full height pointed arch gives onto projecting gable and porch. Single storey round-headed arcades, 3- bays to E, 2 bays to W, open onto flat-roofed S aisle. 3-bay N arcade of 1½ storey height has pointed arches. Both aisles have square-headed windows, S ones mostly 4-lights, N ones mostly 5-lights. Gallery to W end of nave continues across N aisle as first floor block with curving wall, on brick piers, within angle formed by nave and N aisle. Chancel is continuation of nave although lit by clerestory window to N as well as S. E wall has 2 flat- arched openings onto passage which in turn gives onto vestry. First floor chapel, overlooking nave, has 5-light E window with semi-circular head and ogival and pointed-arched tracery. Chapel is reached by stairs in small block with hipped roof at E end of S aisle. S porch has round-headed arch with hoodmould with carved heads to stops. Gable has large lancet window with cusping. Bellcote rises out of porch and has corner stone carved with cross and inscription: "For God's Glory. 31.7.1938". Interior: barrel vaulted roof to nave and chancel, half barrel vault to N aisle.

Listing NGR: TL0346247948

External Links

• Wikidata Q26607468

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)