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| English Heritage Reference: | 203800 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 46/20 |
| Property: | ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH |
| Street: | GLOUCESTER ROAD , SW7 |
| Date: | 07/11/1984 |
| Grade: | II* |
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| Description: | Church. 1866-7, designed by Joseph Peacock. Octagonal north-cast vestry, passage behind cast end and south-cast chapel added by H R Gough 1887.. Chancel recast 1903-8 by G F Bodley and Walter Tapper. Coursed Bargate~ stone (Yorkshire parp6ints to 1887 additions), with Bath stone dressings. Slate roof Transitional but eclectic Gothic style, with many individual features. Nave and lean-to aisles, double transepts broadening out of aisles, and further short transepts north and south of choir. North-west tower planned but not built. Tracery of unusual patterns throughout, with rose windows over long lancets in cast end and choir transepts as well as over two very long windows at west end. Clerestorey of irregular design. Deep entrance porch at west end of north aisle. Interior has nave of six bays with arcade of Pennant stone columns, Bath stone arches and polychromatic brick wall surfaces,. all now painted. Colonnettes to roof ribs and chancel arch of polished marble, also now painted. Timber roof to nave of braced Queen post type. Pews by Peacock. Chancel wholly recast by Bodley and Tapper. Tall reredos by Bodley with gilded wooden figures carved by Bridgeman of-Lichfield; organ loft on north side, 1905-6; black and white marble paving by Bodley and Tapper; rood by Tapper, 1908. Also by Tapper, St Stephen�s Chapel under organ, 1913. Equivalent chapel on north side by Sir Charles Nicholson,- 1936. Font. under west windows by Peacock, now surrounded by choir stalls by Tapper and with tall inter-war canopy. Stained glass of variable quality, but including good west windows by Mayer of Munich, 1881. Much in aisles by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. One of the best remaining churches by the 'rogue' Victorian architect, Joseph Peacock; 'tamed by other hands' (GoodhartRendel) but with a richness of added interest rather than loss of effect. Sources: Survey of London, vol.42,1986, pp-384-7. |
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