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Roman Catholic Church of Sacred Heart, Tunstall


Area
Tunstall
Street
Queens Avenue
Heritage No.
164 A
Grade
II
Date Listed
15 March 1993
Building: Tunstall Town Hall
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ85SE Queens Avenue, Tunstall
Description:  Roman Catholic Church. 1925-1930 by J.S. Brocklesby,  Rusticated stone with copper domed roofs.



Sacred Heart (R.C.), Queen's Avenue.
taken from Tunstall Park

Rusticated stone with copper domed roofs.


Roman Catholic Church. 1925-1930 by J.S. Brocklesby, completed by P.J. Ryan, the parish priest.

Rusticated stone with copper domed roofs. NW tower, nave with 2 aisles, chancel and ambulatory. Romanesque Basilica style. North-west tower with round arched doorway in north wall and tiers of blank arcading over, elongated in 2nd stage. bell chamber lights also form part of the arcaded tier. Pilaster buttresses at angles form small pinnacles to parapet.

Giant archway to west door with chevron moulding, frieze and round arched window above, all contained beneath giant archway. Interlaced arcading in stepped gable, and decorated round stair turret to SW. Nave divided into bays by deep buttresses over the flat roofed aisles. Each bay contains 3 round arched windows in the aisle, and a tier of 3-lights to the clerestory. A series of 3 domes form the roof. Apsidal east end with ambulatory.

The church is bounded on the north by a low stone wall with wrought iron railings with geometric Art Nouveau detailing. Inside, arcades of clustered banded shafts. A series of side altars in the north aisle, and the main altar, all marble, richly decorated with inlay and mosaic. Simply carved bench ends.

Much of the labour of building the church, and some of the internal decoration is said to have been provided by the parishioners themselves during the Depression.

 (The Victoria History of the Counties of England: RB Pugh: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-)




Sacred Heart (R.C.), Queen's Avenue. 1925-30 by J. S. Brocklesby, completed by Father P. J. Ryan. Large and eager to impress. Romanesque, with three low domes and an apse. The aisles separated from the domed nave by clusters of four shafts with shaft-rings. One big, square w tower and one smaller round one with a conical roof.

Pevsner:  The Buildings of England


One big, square west tower and one smaller round one with a conical roof
One big, square west tower and one smaller round one with a conical roof

 

 

"Large and eager to impress. Romanesque, with three low domes and an apse"
"Large and eager to impress. Romanesque, with three low domes and an apse"

 

photos:  Steve Birks  March 2008

  ‘In Praise of Father Ryan’ - more on Church of the Sacred Heart
 

 


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