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Summary

Description

Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1858; S aisle 1870; N organ transept 1887, Johyn Murray Robertson; extensions to nave and chancel 1911, Sir Robert Lorimer. Rectangular-plan, early pointed Gothic style church with nave, chancel, S aisle and chancel chapel; organ chamber and porch at N; basement offices. Snecked rubble masonry with polished dressings; blue slate roof. Base course, windows predominantly paired trefoil-headed lancets with hoodmoulds and label stops, skew gables, bellcote at W gable, off-centre ridge stack.

N ELEVATION: 5-bayed nave; porch 2nd bay from right with angle buttresses, diminutive lancets E and W elevations, moulded Gothic arch on engaged columns, arch to nave with mask corbel, cinquefoil above, cross finial. Slightly lower 2-bayed chancel, advanced organ transept at right with small spaced lgihts, cinquefoil at gallery level.

S ELEVATION: advanced 5-bayed S aisle with angle buttresses, central dormer in nave roof.

E ELEVATION: large, central stepped lights (raised 1917), Celtic cross finial.

W ELEVATION: central paired lights with multifoil at gallery level; shouldered bellcote with triforium-type openings and Celtic cross finial.

INTERIOR: white plaster walls, 4 moulded Gothic arches on octagonal piers at S, scissor braced roof (tie beam at aisle); choirstalls (1911), pulpit (1915), reredos (1917) and war memorial screen (1921), all by Sir Robert Lorimer.

WINDOWS: stained glass throughout; E chancel with marble colonnettes 1880; 2 centre namve N by C H Burkhardt, Munich 1867 and 1874, and centre aisle S 1872; aisle S at right by J B Capronnier, 1883; all Saints' Chapel E by William Wilson, 1961; memorial window to Clementina Stirling Graham and Frederick Graham Lacon by Ward and Hughes, London.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble wall and 2 gatepiers at N.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Congregation established 1848 in mission hall on site of YMCCA, 151 Brook Street.

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