Nominal: 1670 Hz Weight: 280 lbs Diameter: 22.5" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by Llewellins & James 1892
Dove Bell ID: 59085 Tower ID: 22966 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Redbrook: St Saviour
Diocese of Gloucester
Church, 616101
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Overview
Grid reference: SO 537 99
This church is a simple unpretentious chapel of ease of no special architectural ambition. It is in the Decorated style and has trefoil-headed lancets for the smaller windows, with more varied designs only in the east and west walls and the south wall of the transeptal vestry.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Nave of four bays without aisles; south porch; chancel with north and south transeptal chambers, the former the vestry and the latter the organ chamber; a bell-turret rises in the angle of the nave and south transept.
Footprint of Church buildings: 226 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The church is the first on the site and was built in 1873 to designs by John Pollard Seddon. Seddon (1827-1906) was the son of a Regency cabinet maker and was a pupil of Professor Donaldson. Between about 1852 and 1863 he was in partnership with John Pritchard of Ilandaff and from 1857 he had an office in London. His appointments as diocesan architect of Llandaff and archidiaconal architect for Monmouth led to numerous commissions in south-east Wales and the surrounding counties, of which Redbrook is one.
Exterior Description
This church is a simple unpretentious chapel of ease of no special architectural ambition. It is in the Decorated style and has trefoil-headed lancets for the smaller windows, with more varied designs only in the east and west walls and the south wall of the transeptal vestry. The nave is of four bays with four pairs of trefoiled lancets in the north wall, not aligned with the middle of the bays, and in the south wall a pair of lancets in the west bay, then the doorway, then two pairs of laneets and finally in the eastern bay a triplet of equal lancets. The porch has an outer arch with mouldings dying into the responds and wooden benches along each side. The west wall of the nave has two pairs of plain lancets surmounted by roundels and then higher in the wall a sexfoil in a roundel. High in the gable there is a small trefoil. There are low buttresses at the angles.
The chancel and south chapel have, on the other hand, no buttresses at the angles. The transept has a two-light window in the south gable with trefoil-headed main lights and a trefoil in plate tracery and there is a small trefoil-headed lancet in the east wall. In the angle with the nave is a bell-turret which begins square and then by broaches becomes octagonal. Upon the octagonal stage is a further octagon with trefoiled louvred lancets in each face and the turret is capped by a stone spirelet with small lucarnes in the cardinal faces. The chancel has pairs of trefoil-headed lancets in the north and south walls and an east window with trefoiled main lights and an octofoil with leaves carved on the cusps, flanked by two daggers. The stops of the moulded hood are uncarved. The nave and chancel gables have good foliated stone crosses.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
1902
In the east window, three lights representing The Crucifixion flanked by Our Lady and St. John, by C.E. Kempe and Company.
Interior
Interior Description
Inside the church the walls are plastered and whitewashed and the windows stand within plain reveals. The chancel arch likewise is very plain - simply with the arises chamfered. The roof is of pine with turned tie-beams and big trefoiled cusping above. The alley has red and black tiles and there are wood boards under the pews. The chancel stands two steps above the level of the nave and here also the alley is paved with red and black tiles. The sanctuary floor has khaki, white and black tiles. The roof is boarded to form a barrel vault and divided into squares by moulded ribs. Low segmental arches on the north and south open into the organ chamber (little more than a recess) and the vestry (of larger dimensions). The east window of the vestry has a stone piscina set in the sill.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
c.1873
The altar is of pine with an arcaded front, doubtless by Seddon.
Pulpit
The pulpit is of oak, probably not by Seddon and a latter addition; it has open traceried panels and fleurons on the cornice; merely two sides of a polygon.
Lectern
The lectern is a small oak pedestal with a two-way desk.
Font (object)
c.1873
The font is doubtless by Seddon, c.1873; it is of stone, big with an octagonal bowl with quatrefoils and crosses recessed in roundels on each face; there are crockets at the corners of the base. The cover has the same butterfly motif as the stalls.
Organ (object)
1893
The organ is a small one-manual instrument of 1893 without a case and with five stops, all but one of which are in a swell box.
Screen
The screen to the north organ chamber is of polychrome softwood, good, with ogee arches and buttresses against the uprights.
Rail
c.1873
The communion rails are of iron with oak capping.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: SO 537 99
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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