CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1028748
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1028748
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, THE GREEN

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 BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Leigh
National Grid Reference:: TQ 22453 46944

Details

LEIGH C.P. CHURCH ROAD TQ 24NW The Green 6/136 Church of St. 11/11/66 Bartholomew GV II*

Church. C15 in Perpendicular style, restored in 1856 by Larmer and in 1890 by F. C. Lees, who added a stone tower and extended the west end. Reigate stone with rubblestone on south side of nave and chancel, ashlared dressings, porches and tower with Horsham slab roofs. Wood shingles on belltower and broach spire to west. Nave with porch to west end, porch to south, chancel to east with vestry on south side and bellcote over western gable. Broach spire over with Heron and scroll finial weathervane. Arcaded range under the eaves, 3 bays to each face; 3 rectilinear, 2-light louvred openings on each. North:- Diagonal buttress to chancel end. Two-light Perpendicular style windows under label mouldings, some under arched hoods. Two, 3-light, foiled-head windows under labels on nave, recut C19 window between. 3 stepped, single, arched lancets in square surrounds in western bay of north side. East end:- re-cut 3-light,rectilinear window in coved surround. South side:- one arched, 2-light window on chancel, and catslide vestry. One 3-light window under label moulding to nave, east of porch, C19 window to west of it. Three-light, late-C19 window to westernmost bay over moulded sill and plinth string course. West end:- Ball flower eaves across, three-light Y-tracery window over pentice, Horsham-slab roofed,porch narthex. Traceried open arcading over plinth walls with central opening for west doors. Gabled porch to south with hood mould and chamfered surround to door. Ogee-head hood moulding over lancet in gable apex, one window in each return wall of porch. Interior:- Simple. Panelled, round vaulted nave ceiling. Chamfered tower arch with half-octagonal impost. Similar arch to chancel. Chancel roof panelled with bosses. Fittings:- Gilt, plaster and stone reredos with blind arcade of two bays flanking 9 bay centre reredos, alternate panels with Saints and Christ. Panelled pulpit. Octagonal marble font on centre stem with surrounding pillars and three "shouldered" arched panels on each face. C19 traceried,fret-work,ogee-domed font cover over. 5-bay C20 gallery to west end on thin, 4-columned pillars with cusping to bay heads. Billeted top over with foliage frieze and crocketed finials. Two hatch- ments in chancel. Stained glass East Window, 1890 by Kempe. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp.341-2.

Listing NGR: TQ2245346944

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Legacy System number:: 290250
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 341-342

Legal

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