Latitude: 51.4876 / 51°29'15"N
Longitude: -0.6103 / 0°36'37"W
OS Eastings: 496584
OS Northings: 177432
OS Grid: SU965774
Mapcode National: GBR F8D.NHX
Mapcode Global: VHFT8.CVQZ
Plus Code: 9C3XF9QQ+2V
Entry Name: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church
Listing Date: 8 December 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1031551
English Heritage Legacy ID: 468990
ID on this website: 101031551
Location: Eton, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL4
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Civil Parish: Eton
Built-Up Area: Eton
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Eton
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Building
SU 9677 SE
851/1/10006
ETON
ETON COURT
Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church
II
Roman Catholic church. 1914; by Alfred Lord Braye. Brick with rendered sides and Portland stone west front. Slate roof with gabled ends and circular roof lights. Italian Baroque style.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan with entrance at west end, sanctuary at east end and chapels on the north and south sides lit from roof lights.
EXTERIOR: Fine Portland stone west front, of three bays with Ionic giant pilasters, paired at ends, with entablature and balustrade on top and surmounted by aedicule with volutes and open pediment; central doorway with moulded eared architrave, panelled double doors and oval oculus above; similar architraves to flanking windows with bracketed cills. Blind east end and north and south walls, but with circular lights in roof. On the ridge of roof a wooden cupola.
INTERIOR: Sanctuary and north and south chapels have round arches and marble Ionic pilasters; the chapels each have pedimented reredos and are lit by circular lights from above; the altar rails are marble balustrades. The interior fittings are said to have come from Frogmore Chapel, Windsor and from Braye's chapel at Stanford Hall, Leics., his family home; and the ormolu work on the altars is also said to have been designed by Braye.
Listing NGR: SU9658477432
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