Building MPM984 - St Wilfrid's Church

Designed by J.T. Blackwall as a Mission Church to St Mary Portsea. Built 1907. Rectangular interior with high wood panelling. The church has the only surviving baldachino on Portsea Island, which is positioned above the High Altar and supported by white Corinthian pillars. [1]

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A mission church to St Mary’s, Portsea designed by Blackwell of Kettering. Red brick church with stone dressings to windows and a green slate roof. A multi-purpose building whose chancel could be screened off from nave. Lower gabled meeting rooms to south. Built 1905. [2]

<1> Offord, J, 1989, Churches, Chapels and Places of Worship on Portsea Island (Bibliographic reference). SPM39.

<2> Portsmouth City Council, 2011, City of Portsmouth Local List of Buildings (Bibliographic reference). SPM37.