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Summary

Roman Catholic church and attached presbytery, 1836-9, to the designs of GA Boyce. Church in Gothic Revival style and Sion House in Tudor Gothic Style.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1384851: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY (SION HOUSE)

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS91SW/57
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 485310

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (XIX - 1836 AD to 1839 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1972, Tiverton, 54 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV52494.

Roman Catholic church and presbytery, South Molton Road.1836-39, stone buildings. G. A. Boyce, architect. The presbytery is in his characteristic Tudor style with lozenged glazing bars etc.

Devon County Council, 1975, Tiverton Town Trails, 66 (Article in Monograph). SDV352466.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

English Heritage, 2012, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV348729.

Roman Catholic Church and attached presbytery. 1836-9, to the designs of GA Boyce, on land given by the Chichesters of Calverleigh Court. Church in Gothic Revival style and Sion House in Tudor Gothic Style.
Church Exterior: four-bay nave and two-bay chancel, in Gothic Revival style with offset buttresses and hoodmoulds over windows and west door. Chancel has cinquefoil-headed lights, and four-light east window with elaborate rose above similar lights. Nave has two-light windows with quatrefoils above cinquefoil-headed lights; small quatrefoil light in west gable, above porch with offset corner buttresses and pointed moulded arch set on engaged shafts.
Church Interior: has shallow four-centred arch braces to ceiling; coloured glass borders to windows.
Presbytery Exterior: of two storeys, symmetrically composed with double-gabled west front; this has flat-headed Gothic-style windows, the upper tier distinguished by the mouchettes set above ogee-arched cinquefoil-headed lights. Other elevations have mullioned windows, the left-hand gable adjoining the church having a crest set above mullioned windows with 16th century-style pointed-arched lights.
Presbytery Interior: not inspected. A distinctive group by a notable local architect. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 811).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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