CHURCH OF ST MARK

CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381515
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARK
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381515
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARK
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31072 66310

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW RUGBY ROAD, New Milverton 1208-1/1/431 (North West side) 19/11/53 Church of St Mark

GV II*

Church. 1879 with later additions and alterations including C20 buildings to north. Architect George Gilbert Scott junior. Erected in memory of Dame Francis Wheeler, endowed by her brothers Charles Carns-Wilson and Edward S Carns-Wilson. Red brick with ashlar banding and tracery, plain tile and lead roofs. STYLE: Gothic Revival, Decorated. PLAN: 3-stage west tower, 4-bay nave with clerestory, aisles, single-bay transepts and with parish rooms to north, 3-bay chancel. EXTERIOR: tower has triple-chamfered plinth; angle buttresses with off-sets up to second stage, then shorter off-set buttresses to third stage, surmounting pinnacles with finials. West entrance a pointed, panelled door with hollow- and roll-moulding to head, hoodmould, tall 4-light window with reticulated-type tracery to head, chamfered sill, hollow- and roll-moulded surround and hoodmould; second stage: 2-light windows with similar tracery to 3 sides; 3rd stage: 2 pairs of 2-light, straight-headed belfry windows to each side. Nave: double-chamfered plinth, off-set buttresses between windows; south entrance to first bay has panelled door in pointed surround with hollow- and roll-moulding, hoodmould and continuous impost band; otherwise 3-light, pointed-arched windows with reticulated-type tracery to heads; north side has pointed plank door to west end and lancet window. 3-light windows with reticulated-type tracery to clerestory. Transepts have angle buttresses and similar 4-light windows. Parish rooms to north have 2-light, straight-headed windows with Perpendicular-type tracery. Chancel has buttresses between bays, 4-light similar windows, 3 to south, 2 to north. East end has similar 6-light window. INTERIOR: tall, pointed tower arch has 2 orders of roll-moulding, quoins. Squared-off lozenge-shaped piers support pointed arched with double hollow-chamfer and roll-moulding. Tall transept arches with similar roll- and hollow-moulding; wide pointed chancel arch on angel corbels has 1 order of roll-moulding. Piscina. Carved chancel screen of 1904. Carved reredos with Christ and Apostles, 1902, by Plucknett and Company. Minton tiles to chancel floor. Carved font. Nave roof boarded, of 4-centred section on a coving;

transepts have tierceron-vaults; chancel has lierne-vault. Organ case, painted, designed by Scott and executed by Hardman and Powell, 1879. STAINED GLASS: to chancel by Kempe. FITTINGS: screen of 1904 by GF Bodley. HISTORICAL NOTE: the first designs for the church were made in 1873, but construction of a modified design only began in 1876 and the west tower is smaller than originally intended. 'St Mark's is the principal surviving work of George Gilbert Scott junior', (Powell and Sutton). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334; Stevens A: The Woodcarvers of Warwick: Warwick: 1980-: 43; Howell P and Sutton I (eds): Victorian Churches: London: 1989-: 63-4).

Listing NGR: SP3107266310

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Legacy System number:: 481877
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 334
Stevens, A, The Woodcarvers of Warwick, (1980), 43

Legal

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