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Chapel at St Philomenas Convent

A Grade II Listed Building in Sutton, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3649 / 51°21'53"N

Longitude: -0.1701 / 0°10'12"W

OS Eastings: 527486

OS Northings: 164461

OS Grid: TQ274644

Mapcode National: GBR DD.XDZ

Mapcode Global: VHGRK.0YDJ

Plus Code: 9C3X9R7H+XW

Entry Name: Chapel at St Philomenas Convent

Listing Date: 1 March 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1065626

English Heritage Legacy ID: 206789

ID on this website: 101065626

Location: Carshalton, Sutton, London, SM5

County: London

District: Sutton

Electoral Ward/Division: Carshalton Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sutton

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Carshalton All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Southwark

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Description


POUND STREET
1.
4430
(North-West Side)
CARSHALTON
Chapel at St Philomena's
Convent
TQ 2764 SW 19/159
II
2.
1899 to 1900; designed by E Ingress Bell. Rectangular structure with gabled
roof and tower at south-east end. Brick walls with stone dressings and knapped
flint work. Nave, chancel and East aisle chapel. Entrance front in south gable
end; moulded 2-centred stone doorway; single light window with cusped head to
either side. Higher in the wall face, a stone statue of the Virgin in a niche
with stone canopy over flanked to either side by a window with cusped head, the
whole enclosed by a stone arch. To east and partly to rear, a brick tower with
decorative courses of flint and stone, surmounted by an octagonal lantern and
short broach spire. West front of 8 bays, each marked by a brick pilaster and
hexafoil. Moulded plinth. Toothed brick courses above windows. Triple lancet
window to chancel. Within, an organ loft above vestibule at south end of nave;
pieta in vestibule. Pointed arches and vaulted roof to nave. The walls of nave,
side-aisle and vestibule entirely lined with a finely executed scheme of mosaic
decoration apparently derived in subject matter from Byzantine sources. Chancel
walls, floor and altar table lined with inlaid marble in the Italian style.


Listing NGR: TQ2748664461

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