Church of St Peter and St Paul
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029561
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029561
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Lane
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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 Peter and St Paul, Church Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Albury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 05033 47621
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2025 to correct a typo in the description, remove superfluous details and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 04 NE
5/10
ALBURY C.P.
CHURCH LANE
Church of St Peter and St Paul
(Formerly listed as The Old Church of St Peter and St Paul)
14/6/67
II
Church. 1842 by McIntosh Brookes, apse and transepts by Sir A W Blomfield in 1868, north transept re-arranged as Memorial Chapel after the Second World War by Sir Edward Maufe. Built in Romanesque style, a copy of the Church at Thaon in Normandy. Red brick with some stone corbels to tower eaves, blue slate roofs with stone slabs to tower. Cruciform plan with apsidal east end and square tower to north-west. Brick plinth and sill string-course to all windows. Offset clasping buttresses to tower. Three stage tower under pyramidal roof and stone cross. One two-light, round arched, brick mullioned window in each face of upper stage of tower, each in a two-step, rubbed brick surround with circular jamb shafts and impost string course. Smaller, two-light louvred openings on three faces of middle stage of tower with round, rubbed brick, mullions. Brick-edged roundel with quatrefoil tracery pattern on ground floor stage to two faces, corbelled arcading to ground floor. Round arched brick mullioned windows, three on north and south walls with alternating buttresses, one transept window on north and south side - attached jamb shafts and central mullion with "funnel" capital. Machiciolated eaves. Square stair turret to west wall of north transept. Single storey flat roofed vestry to east of south transept. Gabled west end with tower projecting to left. Gabled roundel with trefoil tracery over dogtooth string course. Triple arched arcade of windows in five-step surround with crocket capitals to round jamb shafts. Ribbed and studded double doors with shouldered frame in round-arched surround. Herringbone brick patterning in over-door tympaneum. Projecting brick chevron course on piers and attached columns with scalloped capitals in flanking lancets. Further door to north side of tower.
Interior: whitewashed, three-bay nave and one-bay crossing. Braced kingpost roof. Billeted ribbed-arch braced roof to apse, end braces gathering together to form pendant. Wooden gallery and organ loft to west end. Two-bay arcade across north transept with central column under blocked capital. Panelled wood partition across south transept. Painted ceiling in north transept. Pannelled and painted stone pulpit. Granite font: square, on massive circular stem.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp 92-3
Listing NGR: TQ0503347621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288267
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 92-93
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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