Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1347187
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH LANE
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- 1999-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/00309/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1347187
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colney Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 19701 06170
Details
TL 10 NE COLNEY HEATH CHURCH LANE
(west side)
COLNEY HEATH
10/5 CHURCH OF ST MARK
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- II
Parish church. 1845, in a Norman and early Gothic style of North
Italian inspiration. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings.
Welsh slate roof. Single aisle with an apsidal E end. NW
campanile tower with sprocketed spire. Large gabled N porch with
heavy stone columns and an attached open staircase leading to
tower. The nave has round-headed lancets, 5 on S side. Apse
with 3 lancets and inset stone colonnettes with cushion capitals.
The porch capitals are leaf-carved and carry roll-moulded arches.
Thin colonnettes to open staircase. Campanile has angle
buttresses to lower part. Small 1st floor lancets with
colonnettes; miniature arcade above. Clockfaces to 2nd stage.
3rd stage with 3 colonnettes and twin-louvred belfry lights.
Lozenge patterned eaves band. Wide soffit. Plate traceried W
window. Interior has apse treated as niche with ribbed vault,
panels alternating with lancets. W gallery on thin cast iron
columns. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1970106170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163540
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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