Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, BLACKHEATH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241151
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, BLACKHEATH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241151
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, BLACKHEATH 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 MARTIN, BLACKHEATH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wonersh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 03121 46205
Details
TQ 04NW WONERSH C.P. BLACKHEATH LANE
1/336 Church Of St. Martin
II
Church. c1893 by C. Harrison-Townsend with frescoes by Mrs Lea Merritt, paid for by Sir William Roberts-Austin. Cement rendered with ashlar dressings and brick decoration, pantiled roof. Rectangular plan. Low, single storey building with two heavy gabled and louvred dormers to each side. Nave and chancel with vestry house to east end. Bellcote under eyebrow dormer gable. Two round arched openings over the cornice and lower arched opening to east. Four round arched leaded windows in deep splayed reveals and under brick tile heads. Buttresses to west end either side of the round arched west doors in a deep panelled reveal. Double doors panelled and part glazed. Round chapel to north, part boarded vestry to east with half-glazed door in west face and truncated stack above. Interior:- Nave and chancel all in one under barrel vaulted ceiling. Wood block floor. Three large arches to each side with gilded impost string courses to windows and marble inlay above in the spandrels. Painted frescoes from the life of Christ including the raising of the daughter of Jainis, the Garden of Gethsemene and the Resurrection from the Tomb. Massive round arch to east end with round niche on north side of chancel with gilt ceiling showing the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. Screen to east end with thin turned balusters and festoon cornice over. Oval marble font with bowl on hexagonal stem.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.112.
Listing NGR: TQ0312146205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 112
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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