Description

SD 52 SE CLAYTON-LE-WOODS PRESTON ROAD

Church of St. Bede and attached
3/79 presbytery

GV II

Roman Catholic chapel, 1823, built by Thomas Burgess. Coursed sandstone,
slate roof with modern pinnacled bellcote to chapel, one chimney to
presbytery. Chapel has simple 3-bay rectangular plan entered at east
end, presbytery attached at west end is slightly narrower and lower.
Chapel has plinth, low sill-band, a band to the pediment of the gable;
side walls have 2 simple buttresses and 3 round headed windows; in
east front is round-headed doorway, which has fanlight with radiating
glazing bars and double doors (now protected by bracketed canopy); at
1st floor 2 small lunettes with radiating glazing bars flanking a
stone table with incised lettering:

Gloria et Honor Deo
in
Saecula Saeculorum
Amen
1823

Interior: Single cell with 3 plain pilasters on each side, coved cornice,
flat ceiling; east gallery on 4 slim iron columns (c. 1850), with an
organ; sanctuary in unusual recessed rectangular bay with elliptical
arch rising from flanking Ionic columns, the inner walls elaborately
decorated with blind arcade of fluted pilasters and illuminated by a
skylight; flanking this bay in the body of the Church and attached to
the west wall are 4-seated sedilia which have above the backs unusual
round-headed screen arcades of Ionic columns with rounded arches supporting
a dentilled cornice. On each side, a doorway into the presbytery, under
a detached dentilled cornice. Presbytery: Symmetrical gabled front of
3 bays, 2½ storeys, string course to pediment of gable; central round-
headed doorway has fanlight with radiating glazing bars (now under
a porch roof extended to the sides over bay windows of 1907); 3 tall
flat floor windows, and 2 at attic level, all with altered glazing.
Single storey service extension attached to left wall; right return wall
has 1907 2-storey flat-roofed extension.

Listing NGR: SD5791723671

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570457

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