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Church of St Mark

A Grade II Listed Building in Wolverhampton, City of Wolverhampton

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5845 / 52°35'4"N

Longitude: -2.1372 / 2°8'14"W

OS Eastings: 390797

OS Northings: 298526

OS Grid: SO907985

Mapcode National: GBR 1BK.9X

Mapcode Global: WHBFZ.49JJ

Plus Code: 9C4VHVM7+Q4

Entry Name: Church of St Mark

Listing Date: 3 February 1977

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1201793

English Heritage Legacy ID: 378355

Also known as: St Mark's Church, Chapel Ash

ID on this website: 101201793

Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3

County: City of Wolverhampton

Electoral Ward/Division: Graiseley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wolverhampton

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands

Church of England Parish: Central Wolverhampton

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


WOLVERHAMPTON

SO90NW CHAPEL ASH 895-1/5/208 (South side) 03/02/77 Church of St Mark

II

Church. 1848-9; chancel late C19; being converted to office use at time of resurvey (1990). By C.W.Orford; a Commissioners' church. Dressed squared stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Apsed chancel has gabled vestry/organ loft projections; nave and gabled aisles; west steeple. Early English style. Shallow offset buttresses and coped gables with crosses. Chancel has 3 cusped lancets; projections have 2-light plate tracery windows and 2-light gableted east windows; trefoil window to nave east gable. 6-bay aisles have lancets with splayed reveals and hood moulds; north and south gabled porches have pointed entrances and lateral buttresses. 3-stage tower has plinth, foundation stone to south, angle buttresses; west entrance with triple-chamfered arch, south lancet and entrance; lancets to 2nd stage, top blind arcading; top stage has pilaster buttresses and corbel table, 2-light louvred plate-tracery bell openings; gableted clock faces; broach spire with beasts to angles and lucarnes. INTERIOR recorded as having arcades with thin pier, alternately octagonal and quatrefoil. An important landmark, especially for terminating view down Darlington St from Queen Square.

Listing NGR: SO9079798526

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