Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET
669-1/1/90 (South side)
28/11/51 Church of Our Lady of Compassion
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
Roman Catholic Church)

II

Stable, now church. C18, largely rebuilt 1907. Timber-framed,
weatherboarded, rendered plinth. Half hipped main roof and
baptistery roof have red clay plain tiles, aisle and vestry
slated. Old brick walls incorporated at NW corner. 5 bays, E
bay now vestry, formerly 2 storeys, floor now removed. Open
timber cupola with leaded ogee roof and decorative iron
finial. C20 internal stack to E end. S aisle, baptistery to W
end, brick porch of 1907; E extension with monopitch roof
later C20. Queen post roof. Frame with jowled posts, straight
through braces; much altered, partly missing. Plaster infill.
Later ceiling at collar level. Range of three 2-light timber
casement clerestory windows with leaded lights to S, that to E
with cross casement. Similar 2-light casement to N. Later C20
casements elsewhere. Formerly the stables of The Close (qv),
converted to a RC church in 1907.

Listing NGR: TL5366238626

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500826

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings