CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL

CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL, UPPER ST JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298433
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL, UPPER ST JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298433
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL, UPPER ST JOHN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY AND SCHOOL, UPPER ST JOHN STREET

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Lichfield
National Grid Reference:: SK 11934 08798

Details

LICHFIELD

SK10NW UPPER ST JOHN STREET 1094-1/3/236 (West side) Church of Holy Cross and attached Presbytery and School

II

Catholic church and presbytery. 1802-3, the church enlarged and refronted 1834, transept 1892. For Dr Kirk. Front by Joseph Potter (probably Jnr) of Lichfield. Brick with ashlar dressings and front; tile and slate roofs. 4-bay church has transept to left and presbytery to right. Norman/Early English transitional style. Plain plinth, sill course and cornice; coped gables. Front has square angle turret to left with nook shafts, string course, and top cornice and pyramidal roof; offset clasping buttress to right. Round-headed entrance of 2 orders with shafts and scallop capitals, zig-zag and roll mouldings, plank door with enriched strap hinges. Window of 3 pointed lights with shafts, enriched archivolts and continuous hood mould; trefoil above and gable cross. Left return has 3 windows of 2 single-chamfered lights. Transept has coped gable with cross; 2 windows to front have 4-light casements with 2 transoms. Presbytery of 2 storeys; 2-window range. Painted brick and hipped slate roof. Ground floor has 2 round-headed recesses with entrance to left in plain doorcase with cornice and overlight to 4-flush-panel door, large window with 12-pane sash to right. 1st floor has windows with sills, and stuccoed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes. Right return has small attached outhouses and projecting 1st floor conservatory with horizontally sliding sash to front; ground floor window has 3-light transomed casement. Rear windows part obscured by later transept; 1899 school attached to rear of church. INTERIOR: panelled cambered ceiling; round sanctuary arch with nook shafts and zig-zag moulding, flanking round-headed niches; west gallery over porch. Altar has detached shafts of coloured marble, low reredos with gabled tabernacle. The church was built by Rev. Dr John Kirk, 1760-1851, who was influential in the development of the C19 Catholic church. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.155-6; Rowlands M B: Those Who Have Gone Before Us: Birmingham: 1989-: P.37).

Listing NGR: SK1193408798

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Legacy System number:: 382804
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990)
Rowlands, M B , Those Who Have Gone Before Us, (1989), 37
Rowlands, M B , Those Who Have Gone Before Us, (1989)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.