St Mary's Alms Houses and Chapel of St Mary
ST MARY'S ALMS HOUSES AND CHAPEL OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188470
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Alms Houses and Chapel of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S ALMS HOUSES AND CHAPEL OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188470
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Alms Houses and Chapel of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S ALMS HOUSES AND CHAPEL OF ST MARY, 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:
- ST MARY'S ALMS HOUSES AND CHAPEL OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35698 51465
Details
TQ 35SE GODSTONE C.P. CHURCH LANE GODSTONE 6/72 St Mary's Alms Houses 11.6.58 and Chapel of St Mary
GV 11*
Alms house row and chapel. 1872 by sir G.G. Scott in C17 vernacular style. Timber framed with incised decoration in rendered infill, plain tiled roofs with ridge cresting on chapel and large stack to left end, left of centre, right of centre, and right end on alms house row. 8 alms houses with chapel projecting to left and wing projecting to right end to form courtyard in front of building. One and two storeys, irregular facades, built into hillside. Chapel to left end: two storeys to front, one storey to rear with coved eaves to roof and shingled lead fleche over east end. Gabled end to street jettied on first floor with end brackets. Central angle bay to ground floor with leaded casement windows. Planked door to centre of south side (right) in gabled porch with date 1872 inscribed in gable. Interior:Two bay timber framed nave with stone fireplace to west end. Neo-Norman chancel to east with round chancel arch, mosiac inlay and wrought iron screen. Main Almshouse range to right: single storey to left with two gabled mullion and transom leaded casements across. Planked door in gabled timber framed porch. Large two storey gabled bay to right with first floor jettied on brackets. Central leaded mullion and transom casement window in angled bay on ground floor. Entrance porch set back to right of gable with open Tudor arched recess porch, gabled floor above with carving in archspandrels. Further one storey, two windowed, range to right with central gabled porch and planked door. End wing pro- jecting to right with gabled front to street and on left hand side. Single storey rendered C20 extension on right end. The almshouses form an important group in the lane and were designed to compliment the church to their left.
Listing NGR: TQ3569951480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287733
- 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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