Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029301
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029301
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE
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 LUKE, BURPHAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 01294 52458
Details
TQ 05SW GUILDFORD BURPHAM LANE (West Side) Burpham 2/5 Church of St. Luke
II Church. 1859 by Henry Woodyer, porch added in 1961. Rough-dressed coursed Bargate stone with ashlar plinth and dressings; plain tiled roof over. Ashlar bellcote under wood-shingled spirelet. Nave and chancel with bellcote to west and porch to south. Lancet fenestration in Early English Style with sill string courses and two buttresses below on north and south sides. Full height buttresses at junction of nave and chancel. Gabled porch to south with chamfered entrance arch and hollow-chamfered door surround. Shouldered head to door with scrolled C-strap hinges. Paired, foiled-head lancet fenestration on the chancel with 3 windows on the south side. 5-light east window with lights stepping up towards the centre, quatrefoil panel above. Further eastern lancet window, in end of pent-roofed vestry along the north side of the chancel. 2-light leaded casement fenestration on the vestry with quoined offset stack at the junction of the chancel. Arched vestry door faces west. Central buttress to west end of church with flanking lancet windows. Wheel window above with baluster 'spokes' and floral carving in deep chamfered surround. Bellcote on gable apex with paired human-head corbel stops; attached shafts with moulded caps and plinths to east and west fronts of bellcote, one shaft on north and south sides. Wooden canopies project over the shafts on the east and west faces. Interior:- Scissor-braced 5-bay nave roof with through purlins. Chamfered chancel arch with jamb shafts and moulded caps and bases. Chancel roof with two tiers of purlins with cusped windbracing and arched collar braces to long post trusses. Trefoil-head two-light rear window arcades, the east window arcade with dogs-tooth decoration and girdle moulding on jamb shafts. C19 pulpit of standard design. Unusual sedilia placed under south east chancel window arcade.
PEVSNER BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.122.
Listing NGR: TQ0129452458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288867
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 122
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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