Winson Green: St Chrysostom
Overview
Grid reference: SP 49 888
The plan is elaborate, and the general effect is of a French 13th century building with tall windows and steep roofs. The building material is red brick with stone dressings.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Chancel, double transepts, nave with aisles, south-west baptistry and unfinished north-west tower.
Description of Archaeology and History
Said to have been renovated by W.H. Bidlake in 1891.
Exterior Description
St. Chrysostom is one of Cotton's larger churches and if the tower had been finished would have been a commanding building. The plan is elaborate and the general effect is of a French 13th century building with tall windows and steep roofs. The building material is red brick with stone dressings.
The tall west wall of the nave is flanked by large angle buttresses, each pair topped by a spirelet. The west door with its gabled surround extends for most of the width of the wall. Above the door is a large pointed window of three lights, two large and the central one slightly smaller, with a large rose. On the south-west side an apsidal baptistry with slit windows terminatesthe south aisle; to the north-west the heavily buttressedbase of the projected tower now serves as a massive entrance porch.
The double transepts are placed over the join of nave and chancel and are slightly lower in height than the latter. Angle buttresses at the external corners have a canopied niche at half—height. In the east wall of both transepts is a plate-tracery window of two lights; the main windows, two on each side, are of curious design having threeplain lancets with brick mullions and a vesica window over the central lancet. The remainder of the head of each window is filled with decorative brickwork. The polygonal chancel has geometrical tracery in each of its four windows and the walls above the level of the springing of the arches of the windows are ornamented with brick ribbing. Decoration of the same kind is to be found in the gables of the transepts and of the west wall.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
Early 20th Century
The east window has stained glass, a 1914-18 War Memorial.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior of the church is of red brick with a timber roof. From the western vestibule the nave extends for four bays, having ribbed quilateral arches on squat stone columns with heavy moulded bases and capitals. The clerestory is subdivided by the brick vaulting shafts and has two lancet lights to each bay. There is the same pattern of fenestration in the aisles though in this case each pair of windows is set in a gingle embrasure. The aisles are low in comparison with the nave, and have braced timber lean-to roofs. The first transept bay is, in effect, a continuation of the nave though separated from it by a wide pointed arch springing from the nave walls just below clerestory level. Similarly the eastern transepts are little more than a lateral extension of the west end of the chancel, and can be reached only through the chancel arch; there is no access from the aisles. The chancel itself extends for only one bay to the east of the transepts. The proportion of window to wall is considerably greater than in the rest of the building, and all four of the large windows are filled with stained glass. The roof here, as in the rest of the building, is of the braced collar type. Between each of the chancel windows and at the side of both the transepts and chancel arches are elaborately carped angels and the corbels of the chancel roof are carved with angels' heads. Some of the corbels of the nave roof are similarly treated though the three north-western ones have not been carved.
Fixtures and fittings
Pulpit
A large plain stone drum.
Font (object)
Of carved stone.
Reredos
Carved and fretted stone with two inset panels.
Churchyard
Grid reference: SP 49 888
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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