Church Of St Mary The Virgin is a Grade II* listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1953. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St Mary The Virgin
- WRENN ID
- distant-corner-saffron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1953
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed church located in Horsell, Woking. The church features a 15th-century tower and nave, with later enlargements and restorations carried out in the late 19th century, partly by W.F. Unsworth. It is constructed from carstone and flint, with puddingstone and clunch used for the tower, and has plain tiled roofs. The building includes a west tower, a nave with a 20th-century baptistry, aisles and aisle chapels, a chancel, and a vestry to the northeast. The three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses on the first and second stages, a battlemented top, and a clock on the south face of the first stage.
Inside, the church features a four-bay 15th-century nave arcade supported by octagonal piers, with the eastern bay dating from the 19th century. The baptistry is located to the northwest, with a marble floor and painted wood panelling on the walls and ceiling, along with iron gates leading to the nave. Notable fittings include a 19th-century stone font in the baptistry, a 19th-century sedilia on the south wall of the chancel, and a 15th-century piscina in the south nave wall.
Monuments within the church include a polychrome marble memorial on the south nave wall to James Fenn, who died in 1793, depicting a husband and wife facing each other across a table under a pointed arch. On the north aisle wall, there are brass memorials to John Sutton, who died in 1603, and his wife Faith Sutton, both depicted as standing figures with clasped hands. The west wall features a grey and white marble memorial to John William Rose, who died in October 1803, showing a husband and wife standing beside a central urn. Additionally, there is an oval cartouche of black marble commemorating John Greene, who died in 1651, with scroll carvings surrounding it.
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