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Church of St Jude

A Grade II* Listed Building in Courtfield, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4934 / 51°29'36"N

Longitude: -0.1876 / 0°11'15"W

OS Eastings: 525919

OS Northings: 178720

OS Grid: TQ259787

Mapcode National: GBR 2L.2T

Mapcode Global: VHGQY.PQPJ

Plus Code: 9C3XFRV6+9X

Entry Name: Church of St Jude

Listing Date: 7 November 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1080661

English Heritage Legacy ID: 203708

ID on this website: 101080661

Location: St Jude's Church, South Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW5

County: London

District: Kensington and Chelsea

Electoral Ward/Division: Courtfield

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: West Brompton St Mary with St Peter and St Jude

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2578 NE COLLINGHAM ROAD, SW5

249/45/5 Church of St Jude

II*

Church. 1870, tower and spire added 1879. By George and Henry Godwin. Kentish ragstone jumper-work with stone dressings. Steeply pitched gabled roofs with bands of pale and dark grey slates; chancel and sanctuary roofs decrease in height. Shingled spire. Gothic style.
PLAN AND EXTERIOR: 7-bay nave over 30 metres in length, chancel and sanctuary, double semi-transepts, SW tower. Geometric tracery windows, those to east end and transepts of 6 lights. Most angles are buttressed. Tower with paired, louvered belfry openings and a clock face to each facade.
INTERIOR: Scissor-braced king-post roof White-wash currently covers polychrome brickwork and sheet copper faced capitals. The nave arcade is carried on thin iron columns with Transitional style iron capitals. For two-thirds of the nave's length its aisles broaden into transepts accommodating galleries at first floor level, supported on an outer row of iron colunms. A further deep gallery across the west end. Shallow chancel has murals of fictive arcading with lilies and passion flowers flanking 2 harp-playing angels on a gold background; northern wall without angels but has the organ. Shallow sanctuary with blue painted roof having gold stars; murals of 1879-80 by Edward Frampton have fictive arcading with angels, prophets, Apostles and elders on a gold background flanking a reredos of alabaster and marble, carved by Thomas Earp and inset with mosaics by Alviati and Burke, the whole representing the Adoration of the Lamb. Coloured marble and alabaster pulpit, on short columns, with carved figures of St Jude, St Peter, St Paul and St Augustine, also by Frampton and Earp, 1881. Original, numbered pews. Minton tiles to the chancel floor, quarry tiles, diagonally set to the nave.
HISTORY: St Jude's was built at a boom time for church building in Kensington and coincided with the first great clashes over ritual. It was a "Low" church built on the initiative of the Revd J A Aston in anticipation of the development of the northern part of the Gunter estates, and financed by rich evangelical businessman John Derby Allcroft, a wealthy glove manufacturer. Seating was designed to accommodate some 1,600 people. It is an unusual example of design attempting to reconcile orthodox ecclesiological ideas about the visible separation of nave, aisles and chancel with the seating traditions of evangelical worship.

Listing NGR: TQ2591978720

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