Church Of St Mark

TQ 0962 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE OCTAGON ROAD

Whiteley Village

10/324 Church of St. Mark

GV II

Church. 1912 by Sir Walter Tapper. Rendered, on smooth ashlar plinth with ashlar dressings, plain tiled roofs, rendered over aisles. Cruciform plan. Gothic style of c 1300 with south porch and central crossing tower. 3 bay chancel to east over crypt where ground slopes away. Central tower with polygonal turret to south east corner, louvred lancet windows to each face and projecting coping on corbels. Pyramidal roof and weathervane over. 2-light windows on cill band to nave and chancel, 5-light transept and east and west windows with minimal tracery. Gabled and buttressed south porch with decorative shields over the arch. Ribbed and planked door inside.

Interior : Woodblock floor, stone in ailses. 4 bay nave arcade, west bay with screen across, on compound piers of quatrefoil section under moulded capitals. Crossing and chancel arches with corbel bands, flat, panelled wooden ceiling to crossing. Arched panelled and painted wooden chancel roof with floral bosses.

Fittings: Triple arched Sedelia and Piscina on south chancel wall. Original painted organ to north side of chance 1. Panelled and arcaded wooden pulpit. Octagonal sandstone font with ogee head panels below, metal tent shape cover above.

Whiteley Village was provided by William Whiteley of Whitley's stores for thrifty old folk and was laid out on octagonal lines by Frank Atkinson, employing leading architects of the day. . PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp520-1.

Listing NGR: TQ0941862707