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Places of religious significance. Worth a visit for the architecture, the art or the history.
G. E. Street's red-brick church of 1861, with its tower standing apart from it and a Watts fresco over the chancel arch.
Christianity
Built between 1859 and 1861 by G. E. Street, in dark red brick with black brick and stone dressings under slate roofs - bold, simple Gothic with a Lombardic accent, and protected at the highest grade. The plan is nave, aisles, transept and apsed chancel, and the thing to notice from outside is the tower: it stands over the passage to the north-east porch, quite detached from the church proper, square and solid under a slated pyramidal spire corbelled out on four corner spirelets.
The inside is polychrome brick left exposed, with red and yellow glazed tiles. The nave arcade runs on squat granite columns with shaft rings, their capitals carved with stiff leaf and with the parables. The pulpit is heavily carved with figures and reliefs by Earp; the font has an ornate iron canopy by Street himself; the glass is by Clayton and Bell, with one clerestory window that Street designed and Powell made. Above the chancel arch is a fresco by G. F. Watts.
It was here first. When Darbourne and Darke came to build Lillington Gardens around it a century later, they took their cue from Street's red brick, which is why an estate of the 1960s and a church of the 1860s are the same colour.
Sunday services at 10:30 and 18:00.
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