Church of St Mark
Church of St Mark, Battersea Rise SW11
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1065551
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mark, Battersea Rise SW11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1065551
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mark, Battersea Rise SW11
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mark, Battersea Rise SW11
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Wandsworth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27214 75088
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 2775
9/8
BATTERSEA RISE SWll
Church of St Mark
28.6.54
II*
Anglican church. 1872-4 by William White. Stock brick with red brick dressings and diaper over mass concrete core, tiled roof. Four-bay nave with north aisles, tower at south-west corner supporting wooden belfy and shingled broad-eaved broach spire; raised chancel and ambulatory over crypt. Gabled south porch leads into diminutive south transept. Internally, the four-bay nave arcade does not follow the pattern of the more regularly-spaced clerestorey above. Concrete piers with naturalistic stone-carved capitals by Harry Hems. Aisled windows, one with fragmentary stained glass, have marble sills.
Chancel with apsidal sanctuary set within round brick piers of ambulatory. The spandrels of the ambulatory arcade gilded and painted with emblems. Tiled floor inset with panels by J R Clayton; choir stalls, pulpit and font (raised on tiled and stone stepped plinth) to White's designs. Altar on stone plinth behind low brass rails. At the east end the ambulatory descends to crypt, with octagonal brick piers and lierne brick vaults.
Listing NGR: TQ2721475088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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