Church of St Mary (Summerstown) is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Church.
Church of St Mary (Summerstown)
- WRENN ID
- standing-shingle-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Tooting MP: Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary (Summerstown), Keble Street, Sw17
- OS grid reference
- TQ 264 719
- Coordinates
- 51.4323, -0.18294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary (Summerstown) was built in 1903 by Godfrey Pinkerton. It features Gothic massing with gable ends on the nave, chancel, and alternate bays of the aisles arranged in a transeptal layout. The nave includes a narthex, and the south tower at the chancel, which houses the organ loft, remains incomplete and has a square hipped roof.
Constructed from red brick with stone dressings and tiled roofs, the building's window tracery and other detailing are non-traditional. The narthex has three advanced bays, with the center bay being saucer-domed and segmental in shape, while the outer bays are gabled. It features twin double doors set beneath cambered-arch heads. A stone bandcourse and coping frame a vertical pattern of stone bands and brick panels across the upper facade, which extends around the corners to the parapets of the non-transeptal aisle bays.
The nave gable is adorned with a triplet of lancet windows, their blind round-arched heads connected by a stone band. The transeptal aisle bays contain large round-arched windows, and the tower has a round-arched door surround.
Inside, the transeptal aisle bays are topped with barrel vaults, while alternate bays feature double arches leading to the nave, supported by granite piers. The carving, including the font and cover, was done by Lawrence A Turner, and the east window was created by Morris and Company in 1928, using designs by Burne-Jones.
Local climate
Church of St Mary (Summerstown) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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