Английская Википедия:Church of Our Lady and St Michael, Abergavenny
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The Church of Our Lady and St Michael in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, is a Roman Catholic parish church. A Grade II* listed building, it was built between 1858 and 1860 to a design by Benjamin Bucknall.
History and architecture
Abergavenny remained a Catholic stronghold in the years after the Reformation and its first Catholic church was built on Frogmore Street.[1] This was replaced as the town's main Catholic church by Our Lady and St Michael's in 1860.[1] The construction of the church was funded by a local solicitor, John Baker Gabb, and the architect was Benjamin Bucknall.Шаблон:Sfn Bucknall was engaged on the building of Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire, for another Catholic client, William Leigh, and, aged only 25, was seen as a coming man in Catholic architectural circles. Bucknall's intellectual and architectural influences were the work and ideas of Augustus Pugin – he converted to Catholicism in the year of Pugin's death – and the French Gothic Revival architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, with whom Bucknall was in regular correspondence.[2]
The church is constructed in Decorated Gothic style, with an accompanying Tudor Gothic presbytery.Шаблон:Sfn Built of Old Red Sandstone, with Bath Stone dressings and slate roofs,[1] the church comprises a nave, North and South aisles and a chancel.[3] An intended "grand tower and spire" were never built.Шаблон:Sfn
Internal features
Simon Jenkins describes the church as "a bold composition of church and presbytery."Шаблон:Sfn The interior of the church is largely unchanged since its construction with all its original Victorian furniture and furnishings intact.[1] The presbytery is similarly unspoilt.[1] The church also has "an exceptionally fine collection of medieval and later vestments".[3]
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