Church Of St Mark

The Church of St. Mark is a church built in 1912 by Sir Walter Tapper, located in Whiteley Village, Elmbridge. It features a rendered exterior on a smooth ashlar plinth with ashlar dressings, plain tiled roofs, and rendered aisles. The church has a cruciform plan and is designed in the Gothic style reminiscent of around 1300, complete with a south porch and a central crossing tower. The central tower has a polygonal turret at the southeast corner, with louvred lancet windows on each face and a projecting coping on corbels. It is topped with a pyramidal roof and a weathervane. The nave and chancel have 2-light windows set on a cill band, while the transept and the east and west windows feature minimal tracery. The gabled and buttressed south porch has decorative shields above the arch, and inside there is a ribbed and planked door.

Inside, the church has a woodblock floor with stone in the aisles. The nave arcade consists of four bays, with the west bay featuring a screen, supported by compound piers of quatrefoil section under moulded capitals. The crossing and chancel arches are adorned with corbel bands, and the crossing has a flat, panelled wooden ceiling. The chancel roof is arched, panelled, and painted, featuring floral bosses.

Notable fittings include a triple arched sedilia and piscina on the south chancel wall, an original painted organ on the north side of the chancel, a panelled and arcaded wooden pulpit, and an octagonal sandstone font with ogee head panels below and a metal tent-shaped cover above.

Whiteley Village was established by William Whiteley of Whitley's stores for elderly residents, designed on octagonal lines by Frank Atkinson, who employed leading architects of the time.