Church Of St Peter And St Paul

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TQ 04 NE 5/10

ALBURY C.P. CHURCH LANE Church of St Peter and St Paul

(Formerly listed as The Old Church of St Peter and St Paul)

14/6/67

II

Church. 1842 by McIntosh Brookes, apse and transepts by Sir A W Blomfield in 1868, north transept re-arranged as Memorial Chapel after the Second World War by Sir Edward Maufe. Built in Romanesque style, a copy of the Church at Thaon in Normandy. Red brick with some stone corbels to tower eaves, blue slate roofs with stone slabs to tower. Cruciform plan with apsidal east end and square tower to north-west. Brick plinth and sill string-course to all windows. Offset clasping buttresses to tower. Three stage tower under pyramidal roof and stone cross. One two-light, round arched, brick mullioned window in each face of upper stage of tower, each in a two-step, rubbed brick surround with circular jamb shafts and impost string course. Smaller, two-light louvred openings on three faces of middle stage of tower with round, rubbed brick, mullions. Brick-edged roundel with quatrefoil tracery pattern on ground floor stage to two faces, corbelled arcading to ground floor. Round arched brick mullioned windows, three on north and south walls with alternating buttresses, one transept window on north and south side - attached jamb shafts and central mullion with "funnel" capital. Machiciolated eaves. Square stair turret to west wall of north transept. Single storey flat roofed vestry to east of south transept. Gabled west end with tower projecting to left. Gabled roundel with trefoil tracery over dogtooth string course. Triple arched arcade of windows in five-step surround with crocket capitals to round jamb shafts. Ribbed and studded double doors with shouldered frame in round-arched surround. Herringbone brick patterning in over-door tympaneum. Projecting brick chevron course on piers and attached columns with scalloped capitals in flanking lancets. Further door to north side of tower.

Interior: whitewashed, three-bay nave and one-bay crossing. Braced kingpost roof. Billeted ribbed-arch braced roof to apse, end braces gathering together to form pendant. Wooden gallery and organ loft to west end. Two-bay arcade across north transept with central column under blocked capital. Panelled wood partition across south transept. Painted ceiling in north transept. Pannelled and painted stone pulpit. Granite font: square, on massive circular stem.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp 92-3

Listing NGR: TQ0503347621