Church Of St Gregory

CROPTON CHURCH LANE SE 7489-7589 (north side, off) 13/11 Church of St Gregory 10.11.53 - II

Church. Rebuilt in 1844, following a fire, by J B and W Atkinson. Squared limestone on tooled plinth, with tooled dressings and slate roof. West bellcote, 5-bay nave and north vestry; apsidal chancel. West end: central offset buttress, flanked by round-headed windows in quoined surrounds with coved hoodmoulds. Buttress rises to full height and is corbelled out to become base of gabled bellcote. Bellcote has twin round-arched, roll- moulded openings beneath coved hoodmoulds, and a centre shaft with scalloped capital. Chevron-edged oculus in gable apex encloses a recessed quatrefoil. Nave: south door in slightly projecting, pent-roofed porch: double board doors beneath round, roll-moulded arch on shafts with scalloped capitals, and chamfered hoodmould. Single window to west and 3 to east like those on west end. Chamfered eaves course. On north side gabled vestry projects in east end bay. Other bays contain similar windows, the middle 2 separated by full-height offset buttress. East half-hexagonal apse, with window to each side: half-hexagonal pointed roof. North. vestry has single window. Chimney stack rises at base of nave roof, behind vestry. Coped gables with cross at west end. Interior. C12 font on pedestal with nailhead moulding around base. Wall tablet to Capt George Lee (d1794), of stone with relief carving and incised lettering picked out in black.

Listing NGR: SE7563389290