Bell 1 of 1
Founded by S Tonks & Co
Dove Bell ID: 62550 Tower ID: 24922 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Wolverhampton: St Chad
Overview
Grid reference: SO 903 978
The church is a simple building in the free Perpendicular style common at this period but with few of the Arts and Crafts touches which some architects used to enliven the basic forms. The aisles and clerestory windows are all of the same form - of three cinquefoil-headed lights under a four-centred arch with a simple moulding and the aisle bays are divided by sloping buttresses.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Nave of five bays with south-west porch and vestry and west apsidal baptistery; aisles and clerestory; chancel with apsidal east end, short north passage aisle, south organ chamber.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church was designed by F.T. Beck and built in 1907-8, being consecrated in the latter year. Beck was a local architect whose work included the chancel of All Saints, Wolverhampton (1892), the chapel of the Royal Wolverhampton School (1894), the screen and chancel fittings in St. George, Wolverhampton (now redundant) (1897), St. John, Heath Hayes (1902), the rebuilding of the Georgien St. Thomas, Wednesfield after a fire and provision of a new chancel (1903) and St. Stephen, Wolverhampton (1907).
Exterior Description
The church is a simple building in the free Perpendicular style common at this period but with few of the Arts and Crafts touches which some architects used to enliven the basic forms. The aisles and clerestory windows are all of the same form - of three cinquefoil-headed lights under a four-centred arch with a simple moulding and the aisle bays are divided by sloping buttresses. The west wall has a projecting baptistery in the centre with a castellated parapet and above this are three windows - the middle one of three lights and the outer pair being single lights. The gable is capped by a bell-cote supported by thin buttresses rising between the windows. To the south is a chamber capped by a pyramidal roof which looks like the base of an intended tower and to the north there is another doorway in the west wall of the aisle. The chancel is of two bays with an apsidal east end (simply the corners canted) and two-light windows set quite high in the walls under ogee hoods formed out of a continuous stringcourse of terra-cotta. The windows in the canted sides are single lights. On the north is a windowless aisle which, together with the blind east wall of the north aisle suggests that this part of the building is unfinished. On the south is an organ chamber under a cross-gabled roof.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior has plastered walls, a wood-block floor with tiled alleys and stone arcades with octagonal pillars out of which spring moulded arches without intervening capitals. The chancel is three steps above the level of the nave and separated from it by a low iron screen within the broad plain chancel arch. Subsidiary arches at each side open into the little aisle on the north and the organ chamber on the south. The nave has an open timber roof of relatively low pitch and the chancel roof is panelled.
The furnishings all appear to date from the time of the building of the church (1908) or later and include stained glass in the apse, baptistery windows and some in the aisles, and an organ of c.1920 in the chamber on the south side of the chancel.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: SO 903 978
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.
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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