Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley
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The Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony is a Roman Catholic church in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. The town's first permanent place of Roman Catholic worship was founded in 1861 next to a friary whose members, from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, had been invited to the area by a wealthy local family of Catholic converts. Crawley's transformation from a modest market town to a rapidly growing postwar New Town in the mid-20th century made a larger church necessary, and in the late 1950s the ecclesiastical architect Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel was commissioned to build a new church. The friary closed in 1980 and has been demolished, but the large brick church still stands in a commanding position facing the town centre. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
St Francis and St Anthony Church | |
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Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony | |
51.1133°N 0.1878°W / 51.1133; -0.1878 | |
Location | Haslett Avenue West, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 1HR |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Website | http://crawleycatholic.church/ |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Founded | 12 October 1861 (1861-10-12) |
Founder(s) | Francis Scawen Blunt |
Dedication | Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua |
Dedicated | 1861 (original church) |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade II-listed |
Designated | 25 October 2007 |
Architect(s) | Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (present church) |
Groundbreaking | 1958 (present church) |
Completed | 18 November 1959 (present church) |
Demolished | 1955 (original church) |
Administration | |
Province | Southwark |
Archdiocese | Southwark (formerly) |
Diocese | Arundel and Brighton |
Deanery | Crawley |
Parish | Crawley |