Description

The following building shall be added:

SK 0417 RUGELEY LICHFIELD STREET
(east side)

649-0/2/10005 Roman Catholic Church of St
Joseph and St Etheldreda

II

Roman Catholic church. 1849-50; by Charles Hansom. Sandstone ashlar. Plain tile roofs with
stone coped gable-ends. PLAN: 6-bay nave with north and south aisles, chancel, Lady chapel
on north side of chancel, vestry on south side of chancel, north and south porches and west
tower. Decorated style. EXTERIOR: Nave has small 2-light clerestorey windows and low
aisles with 2-light windows with weathered buttresses between; gabled north and south porch
with moulded arch and statue niche. Taller Lady chapel on north side of chancel with larger
3-light windows. Large 5-light east window with foiled rose tracery. Large west tower with
prominent diagonal buttresses, stair-turret with pinnacle, trefoil balustrade with small pinnacles
and tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes and thin flying buttresses; a weather-cock on spire.
INTERIOR intact, but walls have been painted, over the original decoration; original roofs,
painted chancel and Lady Chapel roofs are unaltered. 6-bay arcades with compound piers,
moulded capitals and double-chamfered 2-centred arches; tall chancel arch. Original High
Altar, Sedilia and Piscina; elaborate 1880 Lady Altar; 5-light east window with four lights by
Hardman and centre by Wailes; a Hardman window of 1860 in the Lady Chapel and a good
1860 wrought-iron memorial screen. SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 228.

Listing NGR: SK0461517918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Joseph and St Etheldreda, Rugeley at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26540487

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)