Description

TL 10 NE COLNEY HEATH CHURCH LANE
(west side)
COLNEY HEATH

10/5 CHURCH OF ST MARK

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- II

Parish church. 1845, in a Norman and early Gothic style of North
Italian inspiration. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings.
Welsh slate roof. Single aisle with an apsidal E end. NW
campanile tower with sprocketed spire. Large gabled N porch with
heavy stone columns and an attached open staircase leading to
tower. The nave has round-headed lancets, 5 on S side. Apse
with 3 lancets and inset stone colonnettes with cushion capitals.
The porch capitals are leaf-carved and carry roll-moulded arches.
Thin colonnettes to open staircase. Campanile has angle
buttresses to lower part. Small 1st floor lancets with
colonnettes; miniature arcade above. Clockfaces to 2nd stage.
3rd stage with 3 colonnettes and twin-louvred belfry lights.
Lozenge patterned eaves band. Wide soffit. Plate traceried W
window. Interior has apse treated as niche with ribbed vault,
panels alternating with lancets. W gallery on thin cast iron
columns. (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1970106170

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630656

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)