Parish Church Of St Mary

LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON ST MARY'S RD, WIMBLEDON, TQ 2471 SW19 (east side) 6/117 Parish Church of 1.6.1949 St Mary - II*

Parish church. Chancel late Medieval, much rebuilt in 1860 by G G Scott. Cecil chapel to south of chancel of 1626-36; nave rebuilt and enlarged in 1843 by G G Scott and Moffat, in late Gothic revival style. Knapped flint, stone dressings, tiled pitched roof (steeply to eaves to chancel, low to parapet over nave). 5-bay aisled nave; low clerestory; 2 bay chancel: south chapel; west tower and spire, of 1843, 3 stages with crenellated parapet. Buttresses between bays to nave; pointed aisle windows. Perpendicular tracery. Small square windows to Cecil chapel, cusped. Compound piers to nave, supporting galleries to north, south and west. Chancel and nave roofs renewed; 4 part vault to Cecil chapel. Black marble monument to Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon (d1638), in Cecil chapel. Various other monuments. Late C19 carved stone pulpit and altar rail, arts and crafts manner. C19 stone font. Organ to west end. C14 stained glass to Cecil chapel (figure of St George) and C17 heraldic glass. One south window with 3 figures designed by Henry Holiday and executed by Morris and Co, 1923. Further window by Morris and Co, 1925. London 2-South B Cherry and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2450271458