Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1189608
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1189608
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH 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 MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oxted
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 39045 52984
Details
TQ 35SE OXTED C.P. CHURCH LANE
6/227 Church of St. Mary 11.6.58 the Virgin
GV 1
Church. C12 tower. C13 Chancel, C14 aisles and C15 porch with C19 restoratibn. Rubblestone with brick dressings, Bargate stone to tower, rendered chancel. Plain tiled roofs; tower roof obscured by stone coped, battlemented, parapet. Nave and aisle with tower to west end, vestry to north and chancel chapel and porch to south. Square, unbuttressed tower with renewed Decorated detail on bell stage. North aisle east window original, C14, remainder renewed except for east window with planed down tracery, reduced in 1637. Porch with hood moulding to arch and Cobham arms in spandrels. C14 door with ogee tracing and carved human heads to panels.
Interior: tiled floor, 3 bay nave arcades of compound piers with round shafts of quatrefoil section. C14 chancel arch raised in C19 restoration dying into imposts.
Fittings: C13 priest's door in chancel. Arched piscina on south chancel wall. Octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panel decoration on octagonal buttressed stem.
Stained glass: C14 Evangelists in tracery lights of East window. Burne Jones aisle windi,ws to north and south by Morris and Co. 1908. Richly coloured with greens and reds
Monuments: South chancel wall: To William Finch died 1728. Baroque. White and grey marble aedicular type with raised inscription, flanking scrolls, double cherubs below and triangular pediment above,surmounted by Coat of Arms. Brass to John Hoskins. 1613. Standing figure 9 inches high. Brass to Thomas Hoskins 1611 with female standing figures
North chancel wall: To John Aldersley. Died 1616. Plaster and stone. Central arched niche with kneeling figures in profile. Ribbon and fruit decoration to arch, flanking Pilasters with shield above in strapwork surround.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England: Surrey (1971) pp. 401-2.
Listing NGR: TQ3904252982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 401-402
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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