Nottingham St Saviour

Official Listing Description

The following are listed:

The church
The churchyard wall

Church

SK5738NE

646-1/25/13

GV

 NOTTINGHAM

ARKWRIGHT STREET
(North East side)

Church of St Saviour

Grade II

Parish church. 1863-64. By RC Sutton of Nottingham. Spire rebuilt, 1955. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival Style. PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave with aisles, south-west tower and spire. EXTERIOR: plinth, string course, buttresses, coped gables. Pointed arched windows, mainly 2-lights, with geometrical tracery. Chancel, single bay, has a 5-light east window, and a single window each side. Vestry, to north-east, has a single window. Nave clerestory has on each side 10 round windows in spherical triangles. West end has 2 windows, with a central round window above. Aisles have 4 windows and single windows in west ends. North aisle has to west a pointed arched doorway under a coped gable. South-west tower, 3 stages, has a slated broach spire with a tier of lucarnes. To west, a pointed arched recess under a gable, containing a pair of doors with a central shaft, and above them, a traceried round window. Bell stage has quoins. On each side, 2 segment-arched recesses with single pointed arched bell openings. INTERIOR: chancel has moulded arch with blue brick band and hood mould, and responds. Arch braced roof on corbels. East end has traceried panelling and reredos, 1913, and stained glass window, 1904. North side has arch with organ case, south side has doorway. Nave has 5 bay arcades with round piers and chamfered arches with polychrome brick bands and hood moulds. Hammer beam roof with shaft corbels. Blind arcade at west end, with commandment boards. Aisles have lean-to roofs, pointed arches at east end, doors to west, and patterned stained glass windows, 1896. South-east window c1864. Fittings include original stalls, desks, benches, communion rail, round ashlar pulpit and octagonal font with spire cover. Brass eagle lectern, 1880. Memorials include 3-panel alabaster war memorial, 1921. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 247; St Saviours centenary booklet: Rev. RG Hoye: Nottingham: 1964-).

Listing NGR: SK5774138634

Churchyard Wall

SK5738NE

646-1/25/14

GV

 NOTTINGHAM

ARKWRIGHT STREET
(North East side)

Churchyard wall at
Church of St Saviour

Grade II

Churchyard wall. 1863-64. By RC Sutton of Nottingham. Altered late C20. Rockfaced stone with chamfered ashlar coping and square piers with pyramidal caps. Outside the west door, a pair of gate piers, and opposite the north door, a similar pair. The wall extends across the west end and along the north side, approx 60m. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK5773238641