Description

SE 81 SE AMCOTTS CHURCH STREET (south side)

5/2 Church of St Mark (formerly listed as Church of St Thomas a 1.3.67 Becket)

GV II

Parish church. 1853. Rock-faced ashlar with rusticated and tooled ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. West tower with octagonal stair turret to south-east angle, 4-bay nave with south porch and 2-bay chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Chamfered plinth. 2-stage tower: diagonal buttresses with offsets. Tall first stage with pointed 2-light Y-traceried west window with hoodmould, similar window above; shouldered-arched door to stair turret with single-light window above. Moulded string course. Belfry has banded angle shafts, single lancets with hoodmoulds and wooden louvres, clock face to west, dentilled moulded eaves cornice. Splay-footed octagonal spire with plain finial and weathercock. Nave: diagonal buttresses and buttresses between bays with offsets; lancets with hoodmoulds. Porch: pointed chamfered outer arch with hoodmould, flanked by buttresses. Pointed chamfered inner arch. Chancel: diagonal buttresses, lancets with hoodmoulds, pointed 3-light east window with stepped lancets and hoodmould, small pointed oval light above. All windows have rock-faced rusticated jambs, tooled mullions and reveals. Dentilled eaves cornice and coped gables throughout, with cross finials to nave and porch. Interior. Pointed double-chamfered tower and chancel arches, with corbelled inner order and continuous outer chamfer. 4-bay single hammer-beam nave roof with corbelled wall posts, moulded arch braces and slender timbers. Polygonal font with moulded shaft.

Listing NGR: SE8552814125

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)