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St Mary's RC Church - West Street, Warwick

A look around Warwick again.

 

 

On West Street in Warwick. In the direction towards the Tudor House.

 

 

St Mary's RC Church - Grade II listed

 

Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic), Warwick

 

The following Building shall be added:-

 

WARWICK

 

SP 2764 WEST STREET

 

8/10004 CHURCH OF ST MARY

Roman Catholic Church

 

GV II

 

Roman Catholic church. 1859-60 by Edward Welby Pugin. Red brick with

stone dressings. Slate roof with gabled west end and semi-conical east

end.

PLAN: Nave with gallery at west end, apsidal sanctuary and North and

South aisles with east chapels. High Victorian Gothic style.

EXTERIOR: The west gable has large plate-tracery rose window in moulded

pointed arch flanked by buttresses , quadruple pointed arch windows below

and statue niche to right, the whole west front is divided by broad stone

bands, the lowest band continues into gallery turret on right and on

left pointed arch doorway into end of lean-to aisle. On the sides

above the aisles sexfoil clerestory windows. On ridge set back behind

the west gable a timber bellcote with a slate spire with a wrought

iron cross. Similar crosses over apse and galley stair tower.

INTERIOR: Is lighted from the clerestory and west window only and the

nave and apse are in one and have an arched brace roof on corbels with

exposed purlins and rafters. Plastered walls with painted decoration.

3-bay N & S arcades with moulded pointed arches on circular piers.

Painted bands above arcades continue into apse where there are painted

roundels of the Saints by Alphege Pippet of Hardman and Co. High in

apse a sexfoil window in a pointed arch flanked by cusped lancets with

colonettes. The clerestory windows have pointed rear arches. At the

west end a timber gallery with organ. Painted stations of the cross

in blind aisle windows. Sanctuary reordered. Carved stone altar panel

depicting the last supper and stone reredos with angels in arcade.

Stone Polygonal pulpit. Benches complete. Stained glass by Tony Drury.

 

 

Listing NGR: SP2796064565

 

 

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

 

Source: English Heritage

 

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.

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