Listed Building: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (101700)

1. ALBERT ROAD 5l86 (South East Side) Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart SZ O891 13/136 1.8.74. II GV 2. 1872-4, Henry Clutton, enlarged and externally remodelled 1896-8 by A J Pilkington. Interior preserves most of Clutton: 3-bay arcades, Early French double-columns with shaft-rings and simplified capitals. Crossing arches similar, but clustered columns on foliage corbels. North aisle with transverse half-arches as buttresses, south aisle with gables at right-angles. Nave roof boarded, with big kingposts. East end all by Pilkington: short chancel, with east wall panelled in marble as background for reredos by P P Pugin, with 3 spirelets over statues, 8 smaller niches. Altar rail of strange Renaissance design (? Clutton): openwork brass foliage, with white marble portrait medallions of Jesuit saints, in shallow bow. North chapel with tieceron vault and Spanish Gothic altar of the Assumption (192l-2). South chapel, wooden vault, another canopied reveals. Externally, tower by Clutton: buff brick and stone with straight-headed transomed and traceried belfry windows, cornice with globules and pyramid spire of banded slate. Remainder by Pilkington, in rock-faced Portland stone, except for Clutton's aisle gables (Perpendicular tracery). Windowless gable to chancel with canopied niches, on high basement (Catholic Institute). The Presbytery and Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred heart form a group. Listing NGR: SZ0865791278

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