NHER 4334 (Building record) - St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Great Yarmouth

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
1848 to 1850 by J. J. Scoles.
E. Rose (NLA).

Listed grade II.
See (S1).

Extended 1900 by the addition of a set of church rooms linked to the chancel by a covered walkway. Presbytery contemporary with original church. Each listed separately Grade II.
See (S1).
The Presbytery is now recorded separately as NHER 65462.
E. Rose 28 April 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.

May 2010. Listing Amendment.
Listing for St Mary's Church amended from Grade II to Grade II* for the following reasons:
It is an accomplished piece by the renowned church architect J J Scoles, reminiscent of a medieval parish church, with meticulous detailing. The use of good quality knapped flint and contrasting stonework significantly contributes to the more than special interest of the building. Inside, most contemporary fixtures and fittings remain including the altar by Scoles, the pulpit (probably by Pugin and executed by George Myers), the figure of the dead Christ in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart, stained glass by Hardman and Co and Mayer and Co. and the embossed and stencilled nave ceiling. The historic fabric and layout of the church is little altered.
See (S2), (S3), (S4) and (S5).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 17 August 2010.

21 September 2012. Planning Application.
Proposed reinstatement of original entrance door, steps & entrance lobby to the Presbytery for St Mary's Church, Great Yarmouth and installation of new external ramp access to St. Mary's Church and Presbytery off Regent Road to allow for disabled access to both buildings.
See (S6) for further details.
Z. Dack (HES), 20 December 2012.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"Church of St Mary, including church rooms and surrounding wall.
Roman Catholic Church, Perpendicular style with late Decorated features, built 1848-1850 by J J Scoles for the Jesuits.
Knapped flint with limestone ashlar dressings, 20th-century concrete tiles to the roof. Chancel to the east end and a tower to the west, nave and side aisles. Church rooms are added to the south and a presbytery to the west, also by Scoles in the same style.
EXTERIOR: The tower to the north-west has four stages with setback buttresses in flushwork. A pointed-arch doorway to the north, on the ground floor, has decorated spandrels framed by a stone hood-mould supported on the carved stone heads of St Edmund King and Martyr and St Augustine. The two-leaf wooden door has decorative strapwork. Above, at the first stage is a recessed niche with a cusped ogee arched head, containing a statue of the Madonna with the Christ-child...The polygonal stair turret to the south-west rises to a crocketed pinnacle. The double crenellated parapet has flushwork panel and lozenge decoration and corner pinnacles...Attached to the south-west of the chancel are church rooms of 1900, in flint with brick and stone detailing, linked by a covered walkway under a gabled slate roof...
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Surrounding the church and presbytery is a low flint wall with ashlar dressings and piers at intervals…"
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the full listing details, including a description of the interior and further information on the history of the building.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.