Tower and Portal of Church of St Mary, Newington is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Church tower. 1 related planning application.
Tower and Portal of Church of St Mary, Newington
- WRENN ID
- dark-steel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church tower
- Address
- Tower and Portal of Church of St Mary, Newington, Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4JQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 783
- Coordinates
- 51.489, -0.10483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains consist of a church tower and portal, built in 1876 in the Early English style by James Fowler of Louth. The church itself was demolished after being damaged by an air raid in 1941, leaving only the tower and portal standing.
The tower and portal are constructed from Kentish ragstone with ashlar detailing. The tower is a square, four-stage structure, with a single-storey portal wall attached to it on the north-east side.
The tower has tapering sides, with corner buttresses and octagonal pinnacles topped with conical roofs. The bell stage features wooden louvres set within triple arches. The third stage has trefoil arches and colonnettes, and a clock face on the north-east side. The second stage has an arched window with colonnettes, and the lowest stage features an arched doorcase with wooden double doors. The south-east side of the tower has cement rendering to the two lower stages, a large arched opening, and a smaller Caernarvon-arched doorway.
The portal wall retains a highly decorated arched doorway. The outer section has a pointed arch supported by piers with two attached columns on each side, while the inner section has a semicircular cusped arch carried by piers with a single attached column each. The tympanum above the arch contains a sculpted figure of Christ in Majesty, framed by a mandorla and flanked by demi figures of angels and banners.
Local climate
Tower and Portal of Church of St Mary, Newington sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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