CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT

CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT, POUND STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065626
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT, POUND STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-18
Reference:: IOE01/00216/22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065626
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT, POUND STREET

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:: CHAPEL AT ST PHILOMENAS CONVENT, POUND STREET

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Sutton (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 27486 64461

Details

POUND STREET 1. 4430 (North-West Side) CARSHALTON Chapel at St Philomena's Convent TQ 2764 SW 19/159 II 2. 1899 to 1900; designed by E Ingress Bell. Rectangular structure with gabled roof and tower at south-east end. Brick walls with stone dressings and knapped flint work. Nave, chancel and East aisle chapel. Entrance front in south gable end; moulded 2-centred stone doorway; single light window with cusped head to either side. Higher in the wall face, a stone statue of the Virgin in a niche with stone canopy over flanked to either side by a window with cusped head, the whole enclosed by a stone arch. To east and partly to rear, a brick tower with decorative courses of flint and stone, surmounted by an octagonal lantern and short broach spire. West front of 8 bays, each marked by a brick pilaster and hexafoil. Moulded plinth. Toothed brick courses above windows. Triple lancet window to chancel. Within, an organ loft above vestibule at south end of nave; pieta in vestibule. Pointed arches and vaulted roof to nave. The walls of nave, side-aisle and vestibule entirely lined with a finely executed scheme of mosaic decoration apparently derived in subject matter from Byzantine sources. Chancel walls, floor and altar table lined with inlaid marble in the Italian style.

Listing NGR: TQ2748664461

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Legacy System:: LBS

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