Stanmer Church
STANMER CHURCH, STANMER PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380955
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Stanmer Church
- Statutory Address:
- STANMER CHURCH, STANMER PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380955
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Stanmer Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANMER CHURCH, STANMER PARK
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:
- STANMER CHURCH, STANMER PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33655 09580
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3309 STANMER PARK
577-1/9/1108 Stanmer Church
02/11/54
GV II
Anglican church, without a dedication. 1838. Flint with stone
dressings, roofs of slate, shingles to the spire. Chancel,
nave, north and south transepts, west tower and spire. In the
Early English style.
EXTERIOR: the east end has short gabled angle buttresses and
an east window of 3 stepped lancets. All other windows have
double chamfered reveals; those to the north and south sides
of the chancel have trefoiled heads; pointed-arched entrance
flanked by colonnettes to east side of south transept which
has, on its south face, 3 stepped lancets; 2 paired and one
single lancet to nave; west door in tower with double chamfer
and hoodmould with head-stops; the tower has angle buttresses
with 2 offsets; paired lancets to north and south with a
circular clock opening above; the belfry has lancets flanked
by colonnettes with hoodmoulds and head- and ballflower-stops;
embattled parapet jettied out on decorative corbels; recessed
octagonal spire.
INTERIOR: walls of stone. Chancel panelled to east end; stone
reredos with 3 trefoiled niches, the 2 outer niches decorated
with foliage ornament in relief; panelled roof to chancel with
moulded ribs and decorative bosses; chancel arch, and arches
to north and south transepts, multi-moulded; arcaded screen to
north transept; west organ gallery carried on slim
quatrefoiled cast-iron columns, the balustrade having blank
trefoiled arcading; panelled roof to nave, the trusses in the
form of shallow pointed arches with decorative arcading in the
spandrels. Monument in the north wall to Sir John Pelham, died
1550, removed from Stanmer House (qv): kneeling figures set
within an architrave and surmounted by the Pelham arms. Organ
of 1839, built as a mechanical organ by W Pilcher of London.
Listing NGR: TQ3365509580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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