Derby - St Mary's (RC)
St Mary (RC), Derby : Sanctuary
Sanctuary - Looking East.
St Mary (RC), Derby
St Mary (RC), Bridge Gate, Derby, 1838-39.
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852).
Grade ll* listed.
www.stmarysparish.co.uk/history.html
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Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1215808
Details
BRIDGE GATE 1. 5170 Roman Catholic Church of St Mary SK 3536 NW 2/36 20.6.52. II* GV
2. 1838. Architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Ashlar C15 Gothic style. Nave with apse and aisles. West tower (ritual west; in fact south) with tall slender spire.
No 11 and the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary form a group with St Helen's House King Street.
Listing NGR: SK3511836792
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215808
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St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Derby, England. A Grade II* listed building, it stands on Bridge Gate overlooking St Alkmund's Way. The church was designed by architect A. W. N. Pugin.
History
The church was designed by Augustus Pugin in 1837 to replace a small Gothic building in nearby Chapel Street. It was Pugin's first expression of his Gothic Revival style. He originally planned for the tower to have a 100 feet (30 m) spire, but budget restrictions prevented this from being implemented. His final design was presented on 17 March 1838, and construction began that same year, with the foundation stone being laid in July 1838. Building was completed by 9 October 1839, when the dedication service took place. The cost of construction had been £1,400. The wood sedilia in the sanctuary was donated to the church by Pugin.
Eight years later St Alkmund's Church was built on a site directly opposite St Mary's. The position of the larger St Alkmund's was such that the view of St Mary's from King Street was totally obscured.
In 1850, a chapel was added dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. Some years later a floodlit statue of Mary was placed on the tower, forming a landmark, although it has subsequently been removed. The church was partially restored in 1927 when it was discovered that damp had taken hold on much of the plasterwork. St Mary's was enlarged slightly in 1932 with the building of the Lady Chapel and several pieces of stonework were added to both the interior and the exterior of the building.
The late 1960s brought sweeping changes to the Derby landscape. St Alkmund's Church and its churchyard were demolished in order to make way for the inner ring road, exposing St Mary's to full view for the first time in 120 years.
A new set of bells was added during a facelift which took place between April 1988 and September 1989, during which the church was closed. A second restoration was undertaken in the late 1990s. This included re-roofing of the Lady Chapel and extensive cleaning of the interior and exterior of the church.
In 2007 the bridge that allows pedestrians to cross the A52 (St Alkmund's Way) was replaced with a wider design at a cost of £1.3m.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Derby
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St Mary, Bridge Gate, Derby DE1
One of the most important examples of A.W.N. Pugin’s developing style, his first large parish church, his most ambitious essay in the Perpendicular idiom and his first collaboration with the builder George Myers. The building is of exceptional significance in the history of English church architecture in the 19th century generally, and in Roman Catholic church architecture in particular. The chapel addition by E.W. Pugin is of architectural importance and the building contains fixtures and fittings of high quality by Hardman, E. W. and P. P. Pugin and others.
The scheme for building St Mary’s was promoted by Rev. Thomas Sing, one of Pugin’s early clerical supporters. Pugin had become architect by appointment to the Midland Vicariate under Bishop Walsh from 1838, though the preparation of the scheme for St Mary had started in 1837. The church was opened in 1839. One of the benefactors was the Earl of Shrewsbury, Pugin’s most important patron. The church was hailed by Nicholas Wiseman as marking ‘the real transition from chapel to church architecture among us.’ It was also the first building on which Pugin and the builder George Myers collaborated. E.W. Pugin added a Lady Chapel in 1855, when a new altar and reredos, stained glass and a screen were introduced to the main building. The church was redecorated in the 1890s, and in 1927-28 the tower was found to be unsafe and a restoration took place, including work to the interior. An extensive restoration and refurbishment took place in 1986-89 when reordering by Martin Goalen included provision of a forward altar.
The extraordinarily brief list description is below. The building is executed in revived Perpendicular style with a (liturgical) west tower, clerestory, vaulted and canted apse and large Lady Chapel, a later addition of 1855 by E.W. Pugin. The interior is characterised by the soaring height of the slim arcades of the narrow five-bay nave, and the great richness of the chancel and Sanctuary. There is a handsome timber roof and the Sanctuary is framed by a wooden arch supporting a rood with figures of the Virgin and St John. The ornate Caen stone altar is by E.W. Pugin replacing his father’s original. Glass in the sanctuary is by Powell’s, replacing an earlier scheme by Warrington, and there are canopied and gilded sedilia. The large Lady Chapel by E.W. Pugin is in Decorated style, with arcaded screens, an altar designed by Peter Paul Pugin and fine windows by Hardman. The scheme of stencilling and gilding of the chapel and Sanctuary belongs to the 1980s restoration and represents partial recreation of the original stencilling scheme and new designs of similar type. Other furnishings, paintings and details are generally of high quality. It should be noted that attributions of authorship of some elements of the interior and interior fittings varies in different accounts and further study may be required to establish the attributions beyond doubt.
Derby - St Mary's (RC)
St Mary (RC), Derby : Sanctuary
Sanctuary - Looking East.
St Mary (RC), Derby
St Mary (RC), Bridge Gate, Derby, 1838-39.
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852).
Grade ll* listed.
www.stmarysparish.co.uk/history.html
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Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1215808
Details
BRIDGE GATE 1. 5170 Roman Catholic Church of St Mary SK 3536 NW 2/36 20.6.52. II* GV
2. 1838. Architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Ashlar C15 Gothic style. Nave with apse and aisles. West tower (ritual west; in fact south) with tall slender spire.
No 11 and the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary form a group with St Helen's House King Street.
Listing NGR: SK3511836792
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215808
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St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Derby, England. A Grade II* listed building, it stands on Bridge Gate overlooking St Alkmund's Way. The church was designed by architect A. W. N. Pugin.
History
The church was designed by Augustus Pugin in 1837 to replace a small Gothic building in nearby Chapel Street. It was Pugin's first expression of his Gothic Revival style. He originally planned for the tower to have a 100 feet (30 m) spire, but budget restrictions prevented this from being implemented. His final design was presented on 17 March 1838, and construction began that same year, with the foundation stone being laid in July 1838. Building was completed by 9 October 1839, when the dedication service took place. The cost of construction had been £1,400. The wood sedilia in the sanctuary was donated to the church by Pugin.
Eight years later St Alkmund's Church was built on a site directly opposite St Mary's. The position of the larger St Alkmund's was such that the view of St Mary's from King Street was totally obscured.
In 1850, a chapel was added dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. Some years later a floodlit statue of Mary was placed on the tower, forming a landmark, although it has subsequently been removed. The church was partially restored in 1927 when it was discovered that damp had taken hold on much of the plasterwork. St Mary's was enlarged slightly in 1932 with the building of the Lady Chapel and several pieces of stonework were added to both the interior and the exterior of the building.
The late 1960s brought sweeping changes to the Derby landscape. St Alkmund's Church and its churchyard were demolished in order to make way for the inner ring road, exposing St Mary's to full view for the first time in 120 years.
A new set of bells was added during a facelift which took place between April 1988 and September 1989, during which the church was closed. A second restoration was undertaken in the late 1990s. This included re-roofing of the Lady Chapel and extensive cleaning of the interior and exterior of the church.
In 2007 the bridge that allows pedestrians to cross the A52 (St Alkmund's Way) was replaced with a wider design at a cost of £1.3m.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Derby
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St Mary, Bridge Gate, Derby DE1
One of the most important examples of A.W.N. Pugin’s developing style, his first large parish church, his most ambitious essay in the Perpendicular idiom and his first collaboration with the builder George Myers. The building is of exceptional significance in the history of English church architecture in the 19th century generally, and in Roman Catholic church architecture in particular. The chapel addition by E.W. Pugin is of architectural importance and the building contains fixtures and fittings of high quality by Hardman, E. W. and P. P. Pugin and others.
The scheme for building St Mary’s was promoted by Rev. Thomas Sing, one of Pugin’s early clerical supporters. Pugin had become architect by appointment to the Midland Vicariate under Bishop Walsh from 1838, though the preparation of the scheme for St Mary had started in 1837. The church was opened in 1839. One of the benefactors was the Earl of Shrewsbury, Pugin’s most important patron. The church was hailed by Nicholas Wiseman as marking ‘the real transition from chapel to church architecture among us.’ It was also the first building on which Pugin and the builder George Myers collaborated. E.W. Pugin added a Lady Chapel in 1855, when a new altar and reredos, stained glass and a screen were introduced to the main building. The church was redecorated in the 1890s, and in 1927-28 the tower was found to be unsafe and a restoration took place, including work to the interior. An extensive restoration and refurbishment took place in 1986-89 when reordering by Martin Goalen included provision of a forward altar.
The extraordinarily brief list description is below. The building is executed in revived Perpendicular style with a (liturgical) west tower, clerestory, vaulted and canted apse and large Lady Chapel, a later addition of 1855 by E.W. Pugin. The interior is characterised by the soaring height of the slim arcades of the narrow five-bay nave, and the great richness of the chancel and Sanctuary. There is a handsome timber roof and the Sanctuary is framed by a wooden arch supporting a rood with figures of the Virgin and St John. The ornate Caen stone altar is by E.W. Pugin replacing his father’s original. Glass in the sanctuary is by Powell’s, replacing an earlier scheme by Warrington, and there are canopied and gilded sedilia. The large Lady Chapel by E.W. Pugin is in Decorated style, with arcaded screens, an altar designed by Peter Paul Pugin and fine windows by Hardman. The scheme of stencilling and gilding of the chapel and Sanctuary belongs to the 1980s restoration and represents partial recreation of the original stencilling scheme and new designs of similar type. Other furnishings, paintings and details are generally of high quality. It should be noted that attributions of authorship of some elements of the interior and interior fittings varies in different accounts and further study may be required to establish the attributions beyond doubt.