Church of St Catherine
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, ST CATHERINES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271415
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, ST CATHERINES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271415
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, ST CATHERINES ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, ST CATHERINES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lickey and Blackwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9909772365
Details
666/0/10035
02-MAY-01
ST CATHERINES ROAD
Blackwell
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE
II
Anglican church. 1939-40; by Herbert Luck North. Whitewashed roughcast walls with exposed red brick plinth with course of blue bricks. Pantile gable-ended and hipped roofs.
PLAN: Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west narthex, tower over the sanctuary and a vestry on the north side.
Scandinavian free Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: The large pantile roof is carried down over aisles and is continued over the narthex at the west end, which has a rose window in the gable above. A tower with a saddle-back roof over the east end with groups of tall thin lancets with hooded triangular heads and similar louvres in the gables of the tower. Groups of similar lancets to the aisles, narthex and chancel, the east window comprises a group of very tall lancets with an oculus above. On the north and south sides splayed entrances to the narthex, the south side has a buttress with tiled weathering and on the north side a vestry with a hipped roof.
INTERIOR: Whitewashed interior with brick arcades with rebated arrises rising from the piers into the high-pointed arches. The chancel arch and the arch to the narthex is similarly treated. Windows have deep splays and pointed rear-arches. Nave is open to scissor-braced common-rafter roof with two tapered chamfer fish-belly tie-beams, all painted white, except for decorated ceilures over the tie-beams and chancel ceiling. The aisles also have exposed rafter roofs. Original benches, pulpit and lectern. Piscina with canopy similar to that of windows and hexagonal font with chamfered corners. Buff-coloured tile floor and green-painted ledged doors.
SOURCE: Crawford, A., A Tour in North Worcestershire, Victorian Society, Birmingham Group, [1977].
Listing NGR: SO9909772365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crawford, A, A Tour in North Worcestershire, (1977)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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