Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1260732
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05531/10
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1260732
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, 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 ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witley and Milford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 94667 39698
Details
SU 93NW WITLEY C.P. CHURCH LANE Witley
8/256 Church of All 9/3/60 Saints
GV I
Church. Or nave, crossing tower and transepts c.1190, north chapel C14, north aisle and transept 1844 and partly 1890 by Aston Webb. Sandstone and chalk rubble, mortar rendered, limewashed on nave, with Bathstone and Bargate stone quoins and dressings. Snecked sandstone on vestry with plain tiled roofs and wood shingled needle spire under iron weathervane finial. Roughly cruciform plan, tower to east of centre, with C19 porch to north and gabled porch to south. Square tower of two stages separated by string course of half round section. Corbelled coped parapet with small obelisks at angles. Two-light louvred openings in each face of the upper stage. Two- light cusped trefoil head window to west on south side of nave, two-light window with lancet adjoining to east. Lancet windows on east and west sides of south transept with two-light window in south end under hood moulding. Lancet fenestration to south side of chancel, one with a shouldered head. Massive buttresses on piers to chancel. C15 east window of 3-lights with rectilinear tracery. Gabled brick and timber porch with arched door and heavy cusped bargeboards to north. Renewed tracery to C15 west window over ribbed and studded door in C15 surround with billet band and ogee crocketed panel niches above. Gabled porch to south with C15 cusped bargeboards - brought from another house. Attached jamb shafts with cushion capitals, plain abacus and small moulding. Dog tooth pattern impost band to round arched studded door. Interior:- Brick tile floors. Three bay C19 octagonal pier arcade with chamfered arches and moulded capitals. Braced collarbeam roof,cll9O, over transept with billet ornament on wall plates. Crossing arches - plain pointed in clunch with steeply chamfered imposts and narrow chamfers to piers. Octagonal flat panelled ceiling over with central boss. Panelled and vaulted arched chancel roof. Mosaic floor in chancel. Fittings:- C19 reredos of Alabaster. Piscina - 1350, with foliated head and aumbry over. C13 font, re-cut - octagonal on massive centre stem with encircling detached columns on lobed base. C15 heraldic glass. Wall paintings - C12 remains. Figures under round arches on south wall, the subjects coming from the life of the Virgin. Dated by Professor Tristram c1120 and one of a group done from Lewes Priory. C19 panelled pulpit. Monuments - Four pedimented white/grey stone panels with dark grey grounds on north chancel wall. Mid-C18 cartouche with cherub's head.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND - SURREY (1971) p.529-30. V.C.H. - Surrey (1967 ed) Vol. III pp.61-9.
Listing NGR: SU9466839705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 529-30
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 61-9
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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