Architects:
The Seely & Paget Partnership, Christ Church Tower,
Greyfriars Passage, Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7JHo
Contractors: J.M. Jones & Sons Ltd., Courthouse Road,
Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 6HZ.
The parish church of the Holy Family was built in 1956 to
the design of Sebastian Comper, and seats about 280.
The original intention was to have a western gallery for
the organ but shortage of funds led to its omission.
The present scheme, due for completion early in 1981,
provides this gallery but .in addition greatly enlarges
the previously rather cramped circulation space at the
west end of the church. Repository, confessional and
other ancillaries are moved out into newly built
extensions, while the single main west doorway is doubled
and a more generous inner screen with three double doors
is added beneath the gallery front.
A sculpture of the Holy Family, designed and executed by
Andrew Kennedy of Chadlington, Oxfordshire, embellishes
the spandrel between the doorways and faces the road.
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