CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT

CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT, COULSDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377634
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT, COULSDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377634
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT, COULSDON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, CATERHAM GUARDS DEPOT, COULSDON ROAD

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Tandridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Caterham-on-the-Hill
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32481 56404

Details

TQ35NW CATERHAM & WARLINGHAM COULSDON ROAD (South West side )

303/2/42 Chapel of St Michael 19.11.1984 the Archangel, Caterham Guards Depot II

Garrison chapel. 1885-86, by William Butterfield, for the Brigade of Guards. Horizontal sections of yellow stock brick, flint, chequeboard flint and ashlar, with ashlar dressings, and a tiled roof. Decorated Gothic Revivals le. PLAN: nave with aisles, the one extending to the chancel, the S one to the chancel E gable, with a SE organ chamber, and SW and NW porches. EXTERIOR: coped end gables, gabled N aisle, S aisle has a lean-to roof; 2-centre arched windows with Decorated Gothic tracery. E gable has angle buttresses, the lower part flint, divided by an ashlar band, up to a brick diaper band below a 3-light window, with chequeboard above the sponging, and flint in the top of the gable containing a round sunken panel. 6-bay N side has brick to the cill band, paler brick to the impost band, and flint above; a 2-light E window to the chancel, the aisle has 3-light windows in the E gable and to the sides, with a lean-to vestry against the E bay an a brick porch with hipped roof in the W bay. S side has a gabled organ chamber at the E end with flint in the top of the gable and 3 quatrefoils along the E side; 4-bay aisle, each with 3 narrow 2-light windows, separated by half round buttresses, the SW porch has a gableted roof W gable has brick to impost level, chequeboard flint above, and a corbelled brick belcote with diaperwork, a weathered top with cross finial, and bell in 2-centre arch; 2 pairs of narrow trefoil-headed windows each with a quatrefoil above. The ends of the aisles are similar, the N aisle gable has 3 trefoil-headed lancets, and the end of the S aisle has a single trefoil-headed light. The 2 porches at the W end have chamfered 2-centre-arched doorways and doors with strap hinges. INTERIOR: 4-bay nave has yellow and brown banded columns to 2-centre arches, smaller at the W end, and with half round responds to wider piers at each end; timber barrel vault roof with a paired truss to the chancel arch containing a king post and large quatrefoils. FIXTURES: octagonal timber pulpit to the left of the chancel arch on a stone base with attached colonnettes; original lectern, rail, and pews across full width of chapel 1887 organ by Walker. MEMORIALS: marble full-height statue of the Duke of Wellington with sword in the SW porch, 1903. HISTORY: privately paid for by the Brigade of Guards. Although the massing is simple, the external use of materials is particularly rich, and the internal space clear and unobstructed. An interesting example of a small Butterfield church. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Surrey: London: 1971-: 139; Thompson P: William Butterfield: London: 1971-: 433).

Listing NGR: TQ3248156404

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Legacy System number:: 287697
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 139
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.