Church of St Andrew
Church of St Andrew, Church Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1354775
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Andrew, Church Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1354775
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Andrew, Church Road
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 Andrew, Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Worthing (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13097 04017
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/04/2020
TQ 1304 SW
753/15/59
West Tarring
CHURCH ROAD (South side)
Church of St Andrew
(Formerly listed as West Tarring Church (St Andrew's))
GV
II*
Church. Late C13, C15, and C16; mid-C19 restoration and alterations; 1885 scheme of mosaic decoration, designed by William Butterfield and installed by itinerant Italian mosaicists employed by Burke & Co. Knapped flint, re-set mid-C19, with stone dressings. Graduated Horsham slate to chancel and porch roofs; wood shingles to spire; 1950s plain-tile roofs to nave and aisles.
Plan: C13 five-bay aisled nave with clerestorey and central north and south porches (mid-C19); lower C15 two-bay chancel; C15 west tower with C16 spire. In Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, having: quoins to angles; buttresses with ashlar off-sets; quoined pointed-arched openings, principal ones with hoodmoulds; corbelled raised verges with ashlar copings and gable crosses; off-set stepped ashlar copings to embattled four-stage tower. Nave: four small windows to clerestorey and aisles; taller aisle east- and west-end windows, the former of two cusped lights with quatrefoil over.
Tower: west end: large angle buttresses; door in moulded surround with hoodmould; replacement panel tracery to window over door; narrow trefoil-headed light above, and two-light window to upper stage with reticulated tracery. North side: windows to third and fourth stages similar. South side: similar third-stage light; fouth stage has window of paired cusped lights with wooden lattice. Similar window to east side, below clock face and with oculus on south side. Vice at south-east angle has small rectangular chamfered lights. Octagonal spire with weather-cock.
Chancel: offset plinth. Central buttress. Two-light windows with renewed tracery; restored five-light east window with cusped tracery to head. Late-C20 semi-subterranean vestry attached to south side of nave.
Interior: nave: pointed-arched arcades with simply-moulded bases and capitals to circular columns; continuous hoodmoulds with carved pendants. Double piscina in south-east corner has moulded, cusped, architrave and bowls in the form of a trefoil and a quatrefoil. Mid-C19 chancel arch, crown-post roof, pulpit, lectern and some surviving floor tiles. 1885 mosaics above aisle arcades and tower arch depicting the twelve apostles set above the apostles creed and portraits of the patriarchs. Tower: arch carried on attached semi-octagonal columns; pointed-arched vice door; early-C18 Stiles family wall monument comprising aedicule with coat-of-arms over; flanking oval memorial tablets; C19 font.
Chancel: C15 screen with perpendicular-style tracery, metal spikes, six misericords on east side carved with heads and foliage and the decorative panelling returning along chancel north and south walls (part-restored) with contemporary choir-stall fronts and fleur-de-lis finials. Jacobean altar-rail with turned balusters, stylised floral motif to frieze, and acorn finials. Matching contemporary altar table.
North porch: commemorative brasses record the installation of the mosaics and their cleaning (1913). Red and black floor tiles. Inner door has moulded pointed arch with leaf terminals on attached columns. Plainer south doorway opposite.
Listing NGR: TQ1309704017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 302248
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 393-3
Donkin, V, Church Building in Mosaics At St Andrew West Tarring, (1999), 392-393
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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