Listed Building: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI (101725)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 768/29/255
Date assigned 27 February 1976
Date last amended

Description

1. CHRISTCHURCH ROAD 5l86 (South Side) Roman Catholic Church of the Corpus Christi SZ 1291 29/255 II 2. l895-6, J W Lunn of Great Malvern for Baroness Pauline von Hugel. Tall tower with octagonal belfry, l932-5 by W C Mangan, who also lengthened nave. Early English style, red brick with stone dressings, 6-bay nave with double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns, paired lancets to aisles with hoodmould and stringcourse, lancet clerestory. Polygonal south-west baptistry, 2 polygonal chapels off aisles. Chancel of 2 bays with polygonal apse, detached stone colonnettes of inner arches of lancets carried down to stringcourse just above altar. Apse also to south chapel, transeptal north chapel. Brass to Baroness von Hugel (died 1901) by Hardman. Listing NGR: SZ1208991974

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Location

Grid reference SZ 1208 9197 (point)
Unitary Authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Unitary Authority (historic) Bournemouth

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