Diameter: 15" Bell 1 of 1
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Dove Bell ID: 55700 Tower ID: 21060 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Hove: St Barnabas
Diocese of Chichester
Church, 610091
http://www.stbarnabashove.co.ukOverview
Grid reference: TQ 284 54
A large Victorian church of flint on the corner of Sackville Road, Byron Street and Coleridge Street. Tall, compact and powerful, with extra vertical emphasis given by a slender fleche, the church has considerable townscape impact, particularly from the north. Built 1882–1883 for Rev’d Canon Thomas Peacey, the first Vicar of Hove, the architect was John Loughborough Pearson. The church is designed in the Early English style, or perhaps better Transitional, but with geometrical tracery in the transept windows.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Cruciform in plan: apsidal chancel facing on to Sackville Road, north and south transepts, north-east organ bay and vestry, south-east Lady Chapel, 4-bay aisled nave, gabled porch in north-east corner onto Coleridge Street, entrance now in the south-west corner from Byron Street on the site of the tower which was never built.
Dimensions:
Nave estimated to be c 26m (85ft) x 7m (22ft).
Footprint of Church buildings: 690 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
Built 1882–1883 for Rev’d Canon Thomas Peacey, the first Vicar of Hove, the architect was John Loughborough Pearson, who was of course responsible for the majestic All Saints in which parish this church is. The carving of the capitals was only completed 1923. A similar if not identical church design was offered by Pearson for St Matthews, Silverhill, St Leonards in 1884. This was completed more or less according to his plans, including the tower which was not built at St Barnabas, as indeed it was not at All Saints. The vicarage and linked parish room which stand to the south of the church were built in 1893 by the architects Clayton and Black.
Exterior Description
The church is designed in the Early English style, or perhaps better Transitional, but with geometrical tracery in the transept windows. The roof runs in a straight line from one end of the building to the other and is only interrupted by a small lead-clad fleche at the point where the nave and chancel meet. The tall apsidal chancel facing Sackville Road is the most prominent feature of the church. It is pierced by a row of lancet windows framed by a blind arcade. The aisles have 2-light Y-tracery windows to each bay, a 3-light plate tracery window in the west wall but the transepts have four-lights with Decorated tracery as noted above. Two paired lancets in the east wall of the vestry, which has a steep roof sloping east, behind which is the higher organ chamber with roof of a similar pitch. Lady chapel has a two-light in each wall. The north-west porch is very small and shallow, with a chamfered brick doorway of several orders with hood-moulds carried round as a string-course.
Building Fabric and Features
Cruciform Plan
Chancel
19th century apsidal
Transept
19th century north and south
Organ (component)
19th century north-east bay
Vestry
19th century
Lady Chapel
19th century south-east
Nave
19th century 4-bay, aisled
Porch
19th century gabled, north-east corner
Building Materials
Flint
19th century
Brick
19th century red
Bath Stone
19th century dressings
Timber
19th century roof structure
Clay
19th century tiles
Tile
19th century decorative ridge
Lead
19th century fleche
Interior
Interior Description
The originally exposed red brick in the nave has been painted over. The nave is full of ranks of chairs, as it always has been. Across the west wall under the window is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Looking east, the pointed plain arches of the arcades are carried on compound piers with Romanesque foliate capitals. Semi-circular pilasters rise from the piers to the foliate corbels for the roof at wall-plate height. There is a blind clearstorey, or better expressed a kind of false triforium, an intermittent blind arcade of miniature columns with cushion capitals in pairs. The aisles are rendered and cross vaulted. Plain wooden panelling around the walls.
There is no chancel arch and the open crown-post rafter roof continues unbroken through, but the division is marked by a splendid gilded and painted wrought iron rood screen erected in 1913 by Bainbridge Reynolds. There are two steps up to the chancel and a further to the sanctuary, then two more to the altar with a marble tessera pavement. The east end beyond is dominated by a huge reredos by Bodley in the apse hiding all but the tops of the three central windows with their fine stained glass and rere-arches. There is also oak panelling and statues of saints and altar front in the sanctuary carved between 1902 and 1923 by Captain Louis Wyatt and gilded by Father Smythe. The excellent choir stalls with poppy heads and carved side panels were designed by Pearson. Oak screens on the east side of the north transept and behind the north choir stalls were added in the early 1930s.
Double arches from the chancel and south aisle lead into the Lady Chapel, the highlight of which is its fine altar and patterned marble floor. There is the remnant of what seems to have once been a scheme of Victorian decoration on the walls behind this, tiles with texts, covered at the time with curtains. The rest of this may be behind the emulsion paint applied in the recent past. There is also an altar at the east end of the north aisle, behind which is the organ console.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
19th century Oak chest table 1883 with gilded carved front by L Wyatt, 1909.
Altar
20th century Unusual altar table in the Lady Chapel of gilded black laquer: two sturdy legs of clustered columns with teardrop capitals and an oak leaf decorated entablature, early 20th-century.
Reredos
20th century Tall oak triptych, carved, partly gilded, introduced in 1907, designed by George Frederick Bodley.
Pulpit
19th century The pulpit is of oak with a stone base, by Pearson; given 1883. Tester added by Vanpoulled in 1977.
Lectern
20th century Oak eagle lectern donated 1927.
Font (component)
19th century Handsome square alabaster font on red marble columns by Pearson, oak lid with wrought iron handle. Given in 1885 in memory of Henry Cunliffe (stone plaque).
Stained Glass (window)
19th / 20th century Five lancets in the chancel by Clayton and Bell, scenes in tiers explaining Christ’s journey from Nativity to Ascension. Some of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century glass in the nave may well also be by them. The south chapel windows were given in memory of Major General Charles Shuckburgh Hearn by Officers of the Madras Police Force (brass plaque). • 3-light east window depicting apocalyptic scene from Revelations 5.2. • Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Michael in the side windows. South aisle: • the Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost. • Annunication in the south aisle west window. Striking west window, Te Deum, with men carrying British and French flags in the bottom corners flanking the Royal Arms, a memorial to the dead of the First World War, dedicated 1923. North aisle: • West window depicts Suffer the Children. • Christ Lord of Heaven accompanied by angelic host in procession. Virgin and Child and Light of the World. The Nativity.
Plaque (component)
19th / 20th century Many brass plaques in memorial of parishioners. Brass plaque with coat of arms (regimental) in head in memory of Richard Pescod of the 14th King’s Hussars, died in service at Moor River in south Africa in 1900.
Panel
19th / 20th century wooden panels attached to the panelling; memorials
Organ (component)
19th century Three manual organ by Bishop & son, installed 1888 (originally from St George’s chapel in Hove). Overhauled and added to many times, most recently in 1977 when it was revoiced.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: TQ 284 54
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 | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
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