Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1958. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- final-ember-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Constituency
- East Surrey MP: Claire Coutinho (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Hill, Tatsfield, TN16 2JX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 417 561
- Coordinates
- 51.28679, 0.03096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church located in Tatsfield, dating back to the 12th century with alterations from the 13th century. The tower was added in 1838, and a south porch was constructed in the late 19th century. The building is primarily made of rubblestone with stone dressings, featuring mortar rendering on the chancel, vestry, and north nave wall, while the south porch is timber framed. All sections have plain tiled roofs. The church consists of a nave and chancel with a vestry to the northeast, a porch to the south, and a tower to the west.
The single-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, a stone cornice, and arched trefoil head lancets above. The chancel walls slope inward to the north and south, with two lancet windows on the north side, a Perpendicular window on the south, and a 14th-century window on the east.
Inside, the nave features a simple crown-post roof with three framed bays. There is a window on the southwest with a round-headed rear arch supported by thin jamb shafts with moulded capitals. The pointed chancel arch meets the imposts, and there is a quatrefoil window in the south chancel wall from the 13th century. The south chancel lancet has a rear arch with a keel-shaped section on shafts with circular abaci and a continuous inner order, dating to around 1230.
Notable fittings include an ogee-arched piscina on the east chancel wall and two rectangular openings on the south wall. The stone font has a bowl on a stem, decorated with a billet type design on top.
A monument dedicated to John Corbett, who died in 1712, is located on the south nave wall. It is an oak aedicular type with gilt framing, featuring an urn in a broken pediment supported by Doric half columns.
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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