CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW12

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200769
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW12

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200769
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW12

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW12

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 28362 73128

Details

BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW12 1. 5033 Church of St Mary TQ 2873 15/7 II 2. Built about 1806 as a proprietory chapel, enlarged 1824 by James Arding and Son and the chancel by Arthur Cawston added after 1881. The liturgical west front by W Newton Dunn circa 1904 now governs the exterior. It is in modified "Wrenaissance" style, of hale gault bricks with rich stone dressings, the rest of the exterior being of yellow stocks with the roof of slate. The west front comprises a pedimented temple front between towers, the whole reading as a rusticated podium and an upper stage, each articulated by a pilaster order: Ionic (and blocked) below, Corinthian above. At the podium stage the mouth of the temple is screened by the elliptical wall of the baptistery which is pierced with tall round-arched windows. The lines of the baptistery pilasters continue as battreses to the drum stage of the hemispherical dome. The great lunette window framed by the upper stage of the temple front reads as a respond to this dome. The podium stage of each flanking tower is pierced by double doors within a surround of order and entablature. The lines of this surround continue into the upper stage where a segmental-pedimented aedicule frames the tall round-arched window this motif being repeated on the return. Eaon tower has a richly carved attic with squat obelisk finials at the angles. The north-west tower supports a complex spire in English Baroque manner comprising clock stage, 2 octagonal stages and a finial feature with reverse-scroll buttresses. The north and south elevations of the nave and north and south transepts are pierced by 2 tiers of windows, the lower with gauged cambered arches, the upper with gauged round-headed arches.

Listing NGR: TQ2836273128

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Legacy System number:: 206976
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.