Church of St Saviour
CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, WOODBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377906
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, WOODBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377906
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, WOODBRIDGE 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 SAVIOUR, WOODBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99552 49802
Details
SU 99 49NE GUILDFORD WOODBRIDGE ROAD (East Side) Church of 5/258 St. Saviour II Church. Consecrated in 1899, built by H. S. Legg and Sons in C14 style. Coursed snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Nave and aisles with tall spired tower to north-west angle, chancel and vestry to east and church rooms to south. Narthex across west end of church with buttresses to end. One 5-light window to either side flanking gabled entrance bay to centre. Double doors in moulded surround with jamb shafts under foliate-stopped hood moulds. Large west window above with 3-light Decorated-style tracery and trefoil pattern roundel window in deep surround, chequerwork patterning in gable apex above. Ashlared angle turret to right on south-west corner. Prominent 3-stage tower to left on North-West corner with offset gableted and turreted buttresses. Upper stage of tower ashlared with two louvred openings in each face and clock dial in gable between. One lancet window in each face of middle stage, gabled entrance in ground floor stage facing the west, now glazed-in, under hood mould and oval panel. Thin needle spire above tower with two tiers of gablets and cross finial. Five bays to south side of church with 3-light, foiled-headed windows under shallow chamfered arches alternating with buttresses; spherical triangle windows in clerestory above, on both sides. Gable to east of aisle with steep-roofed vestry beyond. Interior:- panelled waggon roof over nave with trefoil-panel pierced wall plate. Round red sandstone piers, alternating with octagonal piers on six bay aisle arcades. Two bay chancel on higher level with C19 fittings, including carved reredos with crocketed ogee tracery panels. Stone font and pulpit. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.274. V.C.H. SURREY (1967 Edn) VOL. III p.373.
Listing NGR: SU9955249802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289129
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 274
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 373
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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