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Church of Holy Cross and All Saints

A Grade II Listed Building in Warley, Essex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6034 / 51°36'12"N

Longitude: 0.2941 / 0°17'38"E

OS Eastings: 558970

OS Northings: 191885

OS Grid: TQ589918

Mapcode National: GBR XP.LTJ

Mapcode Global: VHHN3.1YTR

Plus Code: 9F32J73V+8J

Entry Name: Church of Holy Cross and All Saints

Listing Date: 21 October 1992

Last Amended: 9 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1297213

English Heritage Legacy ID: 373566

ID on this website: 101297213

Location: The Holy Cross and All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Warley, Brentwood, Essex, CM13

County: Essex

District: Brentwood

Electoral Ward/Division: Warley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Brentwood

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex

Church of England Parish: Warley Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

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Description


BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE WARLEY HILL, Warley 723-1/8/552 Church of Holy Cross and All Saints 21/10/92 (Formerly Listed as: WARLEY HILL Roman Catholic Church of Holy Cross and All Saints)

II

Roman Catholic mission church. 1881. By FW Tasker. Extended 1886. Rock-faced Kentish ragstone with Lancaster stone dressings. Slate roofs with coped gable ends. Plan: Nave, chancel with bell-turret on SE corner and with Lady Chapel on S side, the chapel on N side of chancel now contains the organ; N and S aisles, the N aisle added in 1886; south porch. Early English style. EXTERIOR: the east end has 2 lancets and buttresses, the centre buttress with Crucifixion above with canopy and quatrefoil in gable; on left (SE) corner a circular turret with arcaded belfry and short conical spire, all in ashlar. Lower gable-ended roofs to N and S chapels, the Lady Chapel on S has double span roof. Small lancets in lean-to aisles, without clerestorey windows; the S aisle has gabled porch, the N has integral vestry with small gabled dormer and chimney-stack. Large rose window in W gable. INTERIOR: 3-bay arcades, without capitals, the double chamfers dying into piers. Arched brace nave roof supported on long corbelled colonnettes. Similar colonnettes to stone ribs of chancel vault. Romanesque arcading around chancel. Carved stone reredos and altar by Thomas Earp, the altar with carved relief of Last Supper has been moved forward. Stained glass E windows of 1986 by J Lawson of Goddard and Gibbs. Built as a mission church for the RC soldiers of Warley barracks and donated by Countess Tasker.

Listing NGR: TQ5897091885

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