Church of the Good Shepherd is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of the Good Shepherd
- WRENN ID
- tattered-jamb-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Good Shepherd, Queen Marys Avenue, SM5 4NP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 276 631
- Coordinates
- 51.35325, -0.16784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Good Shepherd, built in 1930 by Martin Travers and T F W Grant, is a Grade II listed building located on Queen Marys Avenue in Carshalton-on-the-Hill. Designed in the Spanish Baroque style, it is constructed of stock brick and features a copper roof. The church has seven bays, with the nave and chancel combined, and is supported by stepped buttresses. It includes a west bellcote and a porch, along with fixed metal casement windows.
Inside, the church boasts a barrel vaulted roof and a wooden altar rail with turned buttresses. Above the altar, there is a hieratic crucifix and five gold-painted star-shaped lights. The rear wooden organ loft is supported by massive console brackets and features a large wooden architrave. Additionally, there are two panels of stained glass depicting St. Nicholas and the Virgin and Child.
Local climate
Church of the Good Shepherd 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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