HOLY ROOD CHURCH

HOLY ROOD CHURCH, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1101104
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1980
List Entry Name:: HOLY ROOD CHURCH
Statutory Address:: HOLY ROOD CHURCH, MARKET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1101104
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1980
List Entry Name:: HOLY ROOD CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: HOLY ROOD CHURCH, MARKET STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOLY ROOD CHURCH, MARKET STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Watford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 10877 96327

Details

TQ 1096 SE 9/44 5259

MARKET STREET, Holy Rood Church

12.9.80

I

Roman Catholic. 1889-1900 by J F Bentley. Outstanding late Gothic revival church. Flint and stone Gothic of Herts. Perpendicular type. Five bay nave with 2 bay width transepts, clerestory, low-pitch roofed aisles, 3 bay chancel with upper level ambulatory 2 bay north-east and south-east chapels with low vestries extending out to line of east end. South-west porch. Clasped between transepts and chancel, 2 octagonal stair turrets with copper caps. North-west tower built 1894-1900, flint below, top band of flint and stone chequer work, bell-stage banded flint and stone with 2 light openings. Panelled battlements and lead spirelet over corner stair turret. Stone banding is also used in all the gables and on the 2 octagonal turrets. Large Perpendicular style transept, east and west windows. Within, elaborate and complete set of fittings by Bentley unequalled elsewhere in his work, notably in chancel and east chapels, west baptistery and north aisle chantry chapel to S T Holland, the donor. Painted decoration to roofs and walls, opus sectile (tile) panels, rich and elaborate marble and stone altar and reredos with tabernacle (1899) and altar furniture by Bentley. Rood beam across chancel arch, oak sedilia, painted stone piscina and aumbry. Tile and marble floor. Exceptional metalwork, especially the grilles, screens and altar-rails, also electric light fittings (1899). Pulpit (1893), heptagonal marble font with oak cover. Rich fittings especially to the Holland chantry. Two canopied shrines with alabaster statues, 2 Virgin and Sacred Heart. Stained glass by Bentley an east window (1899). East chapels, transepts, (1894), 2 south aisle windows and 2 in chantry. Later fittings of note include west window 1904 Burlison and Grylls and Stations of the Cross circa 1910 by N H J Westlake. W del'Hopital: Westminster Cathedral and its architect 1919 pp. 419-33.

Listing NGR: TQ1087796327

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 158202
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bennett, R, Wright, J E, Church of the Holy Rood, Watford: A History and Description of the Church, (1989)
De L'Hopital, W, Westminster Cathedral and its Architect, (1916), 419-433
Harbron, D, 'Architects' Journal' in Centenary: John Francis Bentley, (26 January 1939), 160

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.