Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378152
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378152
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH 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 MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Headley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 20506 54857
Details
HEADLEY C.P. CHURCH LANE TQ 25SW 4/119 Church of St. Mary The Virgin GV II
Church. 1855 nave and chancel by A. Salvin with tower of 1859 by G. E. Street. Flint rubble, coursed on nave, with stone and rendered dressings, knapped flint on tower and chancel. Slate roofs with wood shingled broach spire over tower. Tower to west, nave with porch to south and chancel to east with vestry on north. Three stage tower with angle quoins and diagonal, offset buttresses to lower stage and roll moulding on angles of upper stages. Buttresses have short foliate-cap shafts on angles to upper part. One squat, 2-light louvred window in each face of top stage, with foliate ends to impost string course. Central quatrefoil and trefoil heads to openings with two-step reveals. Two quatrefoil panels to each face of upper stage. West face - clock face below with single fixed casement either side, two-light and cinque-foil roundel below under hood mould which continues as a string course to sides. West door below in dog-tooth moulding with foliate end stops. Impost string course continues to each side. Jamb shafts, with portrait heads and foliage roll mouldings, flank the double west doors. Lancet fenestration on remainder of church, both paired and single, in chamfered surrounds on buttressed nave. Paired lancets under hood moulds, sill string course on chancel. Crucifixes to gable apexes of nave and chancel. Buttressed chancel with 5-light Decorated style east window. Gabled porch to south with hood moulding and chamfered surround to replacement studded door. Interior:- Arched braced roof. Panelled walls. Glazed tower arch. Panelled chancel roof, the eastern two bays with cross ribs and bosses. Coved and billeted eaves to chancel with rosettes. Fittings:- C19. Piscina to south side of chancel. Simple panelled pulpit. Church font - octagonal bowl on wider plinth with turreted font cover under spherical finial.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) - p.312.
Listing NGR: TQ2050654857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290233
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 312
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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