Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ABINGER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378082
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ABINGER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378082
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ABINGER 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 ST JAMES, ABINGER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abinger
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 11494 45957
Details
ABINGER C.P. ABINGER LANE TQ 14NW
4/3 Church of St. James 11/11/66
GV II*
Church. Nave early C12 (V.C.H.) with chancel rebuilt c1220 and north chapel of similar date. Vestry, organ bay and south porch added in restoration of 1857, bombed in 1939-1945 World War and restored in 1950 by Frederick Etchells. Bargate rubble, once colourwashed and now rendered on chancel chapel, ashlar dressings to angles and plain tiled roofs. Horsham slab roof over porch and wood shingles on bell tower and spire. Nave and chancel with chancel chapel to the north, vestry, organ bay and porch to south and bellcote to west end. One 2-light, louvred opening in each face of bellcote, broach spire above. Off- set buttressing to nave. Renewed round-arch lancet fenestration on south side with late C15, square-headed, 3 trefoil-light window on east. Lancet fenestration on north side of nave over flat roofed vestry addition with leaded fenestration. Three lancets on south side of chancel, one to the east of buttress over offset, one round-arched casement window to end. C19 stepped window to east. Three C13 lancet windows to east end of chapel with chamfered rear arches, three further lancets on north side, alternating with two offset buttresses and with external rebates. Door to west end of north wall of chapel in Horsham slab pentice porch with outer order of jamb shafts under foliate caps and inner raised zig-zag order. South door: recut surround to ribbed and studded double doors. Interior - simple. Stone floor. Whitewashed walls and panelled roof with moulded wall plates. Braced frame to west end supporting bellcote. Three bay arcade between chancel and north chapel on round piers and half pier responds. C20 fittings including octagonal font on round centre stem. Monument:- Dedicated to Alistair Mackenzie 1910 by Albert Tolt. Art nouveau style wall tablet. The church forms part of a group with the stocks and memorial around the Green.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1977) & V.C.H. (1967 Ed) VOL III pp 133-4.
Listing NGR: TQ1149445957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 133-4
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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