Church Of St Mark

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO90NW CHAPEL ASH 895-1/5/208 (South side) 03/02/77 Church of St Mark

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Church. 1848-9; chancel late C19; being converted to office use at time of resurvey (1990). By C.W.Orford; a Commissioners' church. Dressed squared stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Apsed chancel has gabled vestry/organ loft projections; nave and gabled aisles; west steeple. Early English style. Shallow offset buttresses and coped gables with crosses. Chancel has 3 cusped lancets; projections have 2-light plate tracery windows and 2-light gableted east windows; trefoil window to nave east gable. 6-bay aisles have lancets with splayed reveals and hood moulds; north and south gabled porches have pointed entrances and lateral buttresses. 3-stage tower has plinth, foundation stone to south, angle buttresses; west entrance with triple-chamfered arch, south lancet and entrance; lancets to 2nd stage, top blind arcading; top stage has pilaster buttresses and corbel table, 2-light louvred plate-tracery bell openings; gableted clock faces; broach spire with beasts to angles and lucarnes. INTERIOR recorded as having arcades with thin pier, alternately octagonal and quatrefoil. An important landmark, especially for terminating view down Darlington St from Queen Square.

Listing NGR: SO9079798526