Church Of St Edmund King And Martyr

GODALMING CROFT ROAD SU 9643 NE (south side) 12/88 Church of St Edmund King and Martyr - II

Roman Catholic Church. 1906 by F A Walters. Bargate rubblestone brought to course with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Built on side of hill, giving tall basement on north side. 6-bay nave with baptistry at west end, north and south porches, and 3-stage north-east tower; lower 3-bay chancel. In modified Early English style having moulded plinth, offset buttresses, lancet windows and cross finials. Nave: steps with retaining wall up to door at right (west) end which has shallow gabled porch with buttresses; chamfered pointed-arched surround with hoodmould to recessed doorway, the double board door having decorative iron hinges and moulded segmental arch, the tympanum decorated with 3 cusped-headed panels, the outer 2 with shields; relieving arch over porch. To left of porch, 3 windows set at high level in pointed-arched recesses with buttresses between. Tower has gableted, full-height pilaster buttresses; gabled vice on left with 3 slit windows; one window to lower stage, two above, and louvred 2-light belfry window; corbelled eaves to pyramidal roof with finial and weather cock. South side of nave similar, with vessica over porch. Gabled, shallow baptistry and paired lancets to west end. Chancel north side has two windows and, on right, 2-storey pent-roofed bay with a 2-light chamfered mullion window to each floor and stack on left. Further to left is attached Presbytery, not of special interest. Interior: very plain with double-chamfered chancel arch on attached columns with roll-moulded bases and plain capitals; hoodmould with foliage stops. Corbelled, arch-braced roof trusses to nave; underdrawn vaulted chancel. Carved stone reredos with figures of saints. Lady Chapel, in lowest stage of tower, has well-carved stone screen and reredos with Madonna statue and stencilled walls and ceiling. Decorative iron gates to baptistry.

Listing NGR: SU9686643629