Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Roman Catholic Church of
Sacred Heart, Tunstall
Area
Tunstall |
Street
Queens Avenue |
Heritage No.
164 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
Tunstall Town Hall |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ85SE
Queens Avenue, Tunstall |
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Description:
Roman Catholic Church. 1925-1930 by J.S.
Brocklesby, Rusticated stone with copper domed roofs.
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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
"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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