Church of St Edmund King and Martyr
CHURCH OF ST EDMUND KING AND MARTYR, CROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189582
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund King and Martyr
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND KING AND MARTYR, CROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189582
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund King and Martyr
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND KING AND MARTYR, CROFT ROAD
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 EDMUND KING AND MARTYR, CROFT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godalming
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 96866 43629
Details
GODALMING CROFT ROAD SU 9643 NE (south side) 12/88 Church of St Edmund King and Martyr - II
Roman Catholic Church. 1906 by F A Walters. Bargate rubblestone brought to course with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Built on side of hill, giving tall basement on north side. 6-bay nave with baptistry at west end, north and south porches, and 3-stage north-east tower; lower 3-bay chancel. In modified Early English style having moulded plinth, offset buttresses, lancet windows and cross finials. Nave: steps with retaining wall up to door at right (west) end which has shallow gabled porch with buttresses; chamfered pointed-arched surround with hoodmould to recessed doorway, the double board door having decorative iron hinges and moulded segmental arch, the tympanum decorated with 3 cusped-headed panels, the outer 2 with shields; relieving arch over porch. To left of porch, 3 windows set at high level in pointed-arched recesses with buttresses between. Tower has gableted, full-height pilaster buttresses; gabled vice on left with 3 slit windows; one window to lower stage, two above, and louvred 2-light belfry window; corbelled eaves to pyramidal roof with finial and weather cock. South side of nave similar, with vessica over porch. Gabled, shallow baptistry and paired lancets to west end. Chancel north side has two windows and, on right, 2-storey pent-roofed bay with a 2-light chamfered mullion window to each floor and stack on left. Further to left is attached Presbytery, not of special interest. Interior: very plain with double-chamfered chancel arch on attached columns with roll-moulded bases and plain capitals; hoodmould with foliage stops. Corbelled, arch-braced roof trusses to nave; underdrawn vaulted chancel. Carved stone reredos with figures of saints. Lady Chapel, in lowest stage of tower, has well-carved stone screen and reredos with Madonna statue and stencilled walls and ceiling. Decorative iron gates to baptistry.
Listing NGR: SU9686643629
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291359
- 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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