Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CROWHURST LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029927
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CROWHURST LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029927
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CROWHURST 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 GEORGE, CROWHURST LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 39061 47456
Details
TQ 34NE CROWHURST C.P. CROWHURST LANE
5/113 Church of St. George 11/6/58 GV II Church. C12. Nave, late C12 south aisle and porch, C15 chancel all "repaired and made plain in 1657" bellturret and spire above rebuilt after fire in 1947. Wealdstone rubble with brick buttresses and dressings, weatherboard bellturret with shingled broach spire above; Horsham slab roofs to south, plain tiled roofs over nave and chancel. Nave with single bay aisle and porch to south, chancel to east, tower and spire to west end. Buttresses to ends,diagonal on east. C13 lancet windows to west part of chancel with traces of further lancets to east. East and west end windows C15 in Perpendicular style, east window of south aisle C14 in decorated style with C12 rear arch and remains of carved leaf capitals springing from side shafts; further 2-light windows to north with renewed lancets. Ribbed double doors to south in chamfered arch surround.
Interior: stone tiled floor, 3 windowed nave, 2 windowed chancel, trussed rafter roofs of C15 date. Braced posts to spire to west end. Paintings:- Painted walls to east end of chancel in Pre-Raphaelite style. Fittings:- C19 lecturn with linenfold patterning. Octagonal C13 font; stone bowl on centre stem with round piers to angles. Stained glass:- fragments of C15 glass in east window. Monuments:- Chancel north side - Tomb chest to John Gaynesford the elder, died 1450. North chancel wall:- wall tomb to Richard Marryott, 1675. Aedicular, grey and white marble with swans neck pediment to top; rosettes in end. Central shield cartouche with inscription and flanking Ionic scroll columns. South chancel wall:- canopied chest tomb. To John Gaynesford the Younger, died 1460. Canopy battlemented with monsters and foliage in spandrels and cusps, brass plate to top of chest. Also unnamed simple tomb chest under four centred arch. South chancel wall. Aedicular style wall monument to Justinian Angell died 1680. Broken segmental pediment with rosettes to central gilt wood cartouche breaking pediment. Cherubs heads over with bollection moulding around panel and flanking scrolls. Wooden hatchment to Margaret Gainsford, died 1691 on north nave wall.
Listing NGR: TQ3906147456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287352
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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