Poplar: St Saviour
Overview
Grid reference: TQ 374 813
The style of the church is transitional between Early English and Decorated, with characteristics of both styles. The form and size of the building are conventional for churches of this type, with high pitched roofs and no idiosyncracies or features of special interest. By Frederick John and Horace Francis, 1873-4, at a cost of about £7,000.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Five-bay aisled nave, west narthex used as a bapistery; chancel with south chapel and north sacristy; bell-cote in east gable of nave.
Description of Archaeology and History
By Frederick John and Horace Francis, 1873-4, at a cost of about £7,000.
Exterior Description
Yellow-grey stock brick banded with red brick; Bath stone dressings; slated roofs.
The style of the church is transitional between Early English and Decorated, with characteristics of both styles. The form and size of the building are conventional for churches of this type, with high pitched roofs and no idiosyncracies or features of special interest. The brick banding is very simple and makes little impression, and the most lively details are the human heads at the labels stops of alternate windows.
The aisles have three-light windows and the clerestory is composed of a row of ten identical quatrefoil lights within roundels. The bell cote on the east gable is so placed that it may be used during the service as well as beforehand. It is all of stone, set diagonally, with a slim spirelet.
The chancel south chapel stands under its own gabled roof and has in the west wall a circular light containing five smaller circles; in the south wall are two tall two-light windows with quatrefoils as tracery, and between these is a crucifix. The east gable is very similar to the chancel gable, with a large window of four lights (the chancel has five) with Geometrical tracery. The clergy house to the north-east is probably also by the brothers Francis.
The north side is a mirror-image of the south, save that in place of the chancel chapel there is a two-bay cross-gabled vestry and sacristy. The west window of the nave is large, with five lights and an attempt at leaf tracery combined with Geometrical tracery.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
c.1880
The east window is by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, showing the Crucifixion, c.1880.
Interior
Interior Description
The nave arcades are carried on round piers with moulded bases and capitals, the arches outlined with stone and cross banded with red and yellow bricks. Most of the windows have frosted glass, stained glass being limited to the east window and the north-west aisle window.
Under the big west window an arch opens into the narthex, but is almost completely blocked by the large square font. The north aisle has been cleared of pews to form a chapel, with the organ at the east end, and the south aisle also is used as a chapel.
The tall narrow chancel arch, carried on triple attached columns, continues the theme set by the nave arcade, and is echoed also by alternate bays of the timber roof, the intermediate bays being scissor-braced. The clerestory is shallow compared with the nave arcade, and the round windows are set within arches.
The chancel is more highly decorated than the nave, the moulded capitals replaced here by carved foliage. Width is given by the two-bay arcades on each side which open into the south chapel and north sacristies. The floor is paved with marble and the walls are enlivened by arcading in two colours of brick. The east wall is plainly banded by contrast, the lower part covered by panelling which is painted grey. The capitals of the piers and the corbels which support the timbers of the panelled roof are carved with foliage and flowers. The high altar is of stone with gilded decoration in the front panels, the reredos behind it covered by a curtain.
The south chapel is tall and light, with a high roof; the main feature is a reredos with plaster panels in relief painted gold.
Fixtures and fittings
Reredos
The south chapel Reredos has three plaster panels painted gold The Angel addressing Adam and Eve, Christ and the Two Disciples at Emmaus, and The Annunciation.
Altar
The high altar, of stone, has three front panels with IHS and the Chalice and Host.
Organ (object)
The organ is by Forster and Andrews of Hull.
Font (object)
1874
The Font, square and solid, on a drum and four colonettes, was given in 1874 by the Sunday School children.
Churchyard
Grid reference: TQ 374 813
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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