Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, OCTAGON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377485
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, OCTAGON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377485
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, OCTAGON ROAD
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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, OCTAGON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Elmbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 09418 62707
Details
TQ 0962 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE OCTAGON ROAD
Whiteley Village
10/324 Church of St. Mark
GV II
Church. 1912 by Sir Walter Tapper. Rendered, on smooth ashlar plinth with ashlar dressings, plain tiled roofs, rendered over aisles. Cruciform plan. Gothic style of c 1300 with south porch and central crossing tower. 3 bay chancel to east over crypt where ground slopes away. Central tower with polygonal turret to south east corner, louvred lancet windows to each face and projecting coping on corbels. Pyramidal roof and weathervane over. 2-light windows on cill band to nave and chancel, 5-light transept and east and west windows with minimal tracery. Gabled and buttressed south porch with decorative shields over the arch. Ribbed and planked door inside.
Interior : Woodblock floor, stone in ailses. 4 bay nave arcade, west bay with screen across, on compound piers of quatrefoil section under moulded capitals. Crossing and chancel arches with corbel bands, flat, panelled wooden ceiling to crossing. Arched panelled and painted wooden chancel roof with floral bosses.
Fittings: Triple arched Sedelia and Piscina on south chancel wall. Original painted organ to north side of chance 1. Panelled and arcaded wooden pulpit. Octagonal sandstone font with ogee head panels below, metal tent shape cover above.
Whiteley Village was provided by William Whiteley of Whitley's stores for thrifty old folk and was laid out on octagonal lines by Frank Atkinson, employing leading architects of the day. . PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp520-1.
Listing NGR: TQ0941862707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 520-1
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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