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HIGH STREET
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5104
Deritend B12
Former Church,
(part of premises occupied
by Dolphin Showers)
SP 08 NE 7/53
II
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Circa 1898-1900. Small brick built church but with considerable height to walls,
in a basilican-Lombardic style with good Arts and. Crafts brickwork. The principal
feature is the companile tower to the north-west corner, triple arcaded openings to
the upper stages defined by moulded and cut brick cornices; pyramidal pantile roof.
Similar roof cladding to main building with deeply moulded eaves cornice. Four
round arched lancets light the side elevation.
Listing NGR: SP0809986328
The former St Edmunds' Boy's Home was designed by Mansell & Mansell. Two simple brick bays of 1912 fronting Deritend, then a bedroom extension with a wooden casement window, and a five-bay block of 1913 - 14 with hipped roof. Set back, the chapel of 1913 in Early Christian style, above a ground-floor workshop. Not quite as impressive as Dixon's or Ball's work (e.g. St Basil) but with an impressive campanile, closely based on that of S Giorgio in Velabro in Rome. The interior has an inserted floor, but retains a rich painte timber roof with king-post trusses on big consoles.