Church of St Mark

CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHAPEL ASH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201793
Date first listed:
03-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mark
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHAPEL ASH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201793
Date first listed:
03-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mark
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHAPEL ASH

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHAPEL ASH

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

District:
City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SO 90797 98526

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO90NW CHAPEL ASH 895-1/5/208 (South side) 03/02/77 Church of St Mark

II

Church. 1848-9; chancel late C19; being converted to office use at time of resurvey (1990). By C.W.Orford; a Commissioners' church. Dressed squared stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Apsed chancel has gabled vestry/organ loft projections; nave and gabled aisles; west steeple. Early English style. Shallow offset buttresses and coped gables with crosses. Chancel has 3 cusped lancets; projections have 2-light plate tracery windows and 2-light gableted east windows; trefoil window to nave east gable. 6-bay aisles have lancets with splayed reveals and hood moulds; north and south gabled porches have pointed entrances and lateral buttresses. 3-stage tower has plinth, foundation stone to south, angle buttresses; west entrance with triple-chamfered arch, south lancet and entrance; lancets to 2nd stage, top blind arcading; top stage has pilaster buttresses and corbel table, 2-light louvred plate-tracery bell openings; gableted clock faces; broach spire with beasts to angles and lucarnes. INTERIOR recorded as having arcades with thin pier, alternately octagonal and quatrefoil. An important landmark, especially for terminating view down Darlington St from Queen Square.

Listing NGR: SO9079798526

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Legacy System number:
378355
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.

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