Description

TQ 06SW
2/107

BOROUGH OF WOKING
WEST BYFLEET
PARVIS ROAD
Church of St John the Baptist

II
Church. 1910 by W.D Caröe. Knapped flint with random stone blocks, stone dressings; plain tiled roof with wood shingled bell turret and broach spire to west end.

Cruciform plan with nave and aisles, transepts and chancel; C20 vestry/church hall to north east corner. Narthex to west end with two doors on deep reveals to outer bays, most windows under four centre hoods with panelled tracery; east window semicircular and filled with quadrofoil tracery. Foundation stone of 1910 and inscribed with the name of the architect in a buttress at the east end.

Interior: five bay nave arcade on piers of cruciform section; crenallations and trefoil carvings to the top of the arcade. Barrel vaulted nave with stone vaulted aisles, panelled vaults to the north chancel chapel and chancel. Early C20 fittings to the chancel, including reredos. Double sedelia with rib vaults to niches and ogee arched piscina to south chancel wall. Hexagonal stone font.

Listing NGR: TQ 0441360981

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26555117

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)