Description

TQ 2477 MARGRAVINE ROAD W6

8/30

- Church of St Alban

- II

Church. 1894-6.Aston Webb and Ingres Ball. Red brick, stone dressings slate
roof. Fine Perpendicular style. Four bay nave, aisles, narthex, transepts,
very shallow choir, (unfinished). Low octagonal turret with spirelet to north
transept. Perpendicular tracery. Interior with brick polyohrmy in red and
yellow, with stone dressings, now painted. Wide arcades and wide aisles.
Octagonal piers with unusual capitals having eight facets offset from those of
shaft, with ogees cusps at intersections. No bases (floor raised?). Clerestory
with paired square-headed windows and continuous timber lintel, divided by
timber columns. Arcade and clerestory form screen across transept ends. Fine
king post roof. Finely moulded arches on east side of transepts, blocked.
Five-light reticulated tracery to windows of transept ends, with main mullions
ascending to meet window head. Later organ loft to west end. A church of
some originality included despite incomplete state.

Listing NGR: TQ2405977922

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27085617

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)