Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3205SW ELM GROVE
577-1/29/280 (North side)
14/01/81 St Wilfrid's flats
(Formerly Listed as:
ELM GROVE
Church of St Wilfrid)

II

Church, now an old people's home. Foundation stone at west end
laid 1932, work completed 1934 (all directions ritual).
Designed by HS Goodhart-Rendel, built by George Lynn and Sons
Ltd. Brown Keymer brick in Dutch bond, concrete-cased steel
and reinforced concrete, roof of pantiles.
PLAN: chancel, nave, north and south passage aisles, north and
south chapels, tower over the chancel, vestry at north-east
corner.
EXTERIOR: all windows segmental-arched. The east end is blank.
The saddleback tower lies across the width of the church, and
is set back twice, very slightly; the broad sides are
unwindowed; 2 tall windows to the north, with architraves of
slightly recessed brickwork and set between shallow brick
buttresses; above them, another pair of windows, less tall and
set under a corbelled brick archivolt; cross of blue tiles
with gold mosaic joints between these windows. Side chapel to
north under catslide roof, its northern face unwindowed, and a
window to west, matching those of the nave. Nave formerly of 5
bays, the pier projecting as haunches above the roof. Gabled
north-east porch. West end canted slightly in plan, with 2
windows of which only the upper is original. Mansard roof with
modern lay-lights inserted. Vestry with 2 tiers of windows, of
which only the upper one is original. Screen wall to north
side between porch and vestries.
INTERIOR: the interior of the church has been wholly altered
by the insertion of housing which leaves the south arcade and
the space under the tower unencumbered; in the former side
chapel to the north, a mural painting by Hans Feibusch, 1940.
(RIBA Journal: 1934: vol.41: 234-9).

Listing NGR: TQ3241705259

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7595640

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)