CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS

CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, LITTLETON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188307
Date first listed:: 21-May-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, LITTLETON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188307
Date first listed:: 21-May-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, LITTLETON LANE

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 FRANCIS, LITTLETON LANE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Artington
National Grid Reference:: SU 98209 47496

Details

SU 94 NE ARTINGTON C.P. LITTLETON LANE

3/46 Church of St Francis

GV II

Church. Dated 1843 in gable apex. Coursed sandstone with grey brick dressings, irregular heathstone tower with stone dressings, some galletting around south door. Plain tiled roof, some patterned, with wood framed and shingled dormer and spire. Nave with pentice roof to south, south porch and short square tower to south east. Angle buttresses to tower with roundel on south side. Lancet windows under label mouldings, two on south side and one three-light, leaded and bargeboarded casement dormer above. Three-light east window with cusped tracery and large four light mullioned and transomed west window under label moulding. Gabled south porch with Tudor-style arched entrance.

Interior: Nave and chancel with lobby to west end. Three bays to lobby with panelled screen under half-wheel glazing to roof, dividing it from nave. Three bay nave with stone depressed chancel arch. C20 fittings.

Small Pieta carving, possibly cls Flemish. Former school, converted to church. Included for group value with Long Meadow.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p 351.

Listing NGR: SU9820947496

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Legacy System number:: 288303
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 351

Legal

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