Description

TQ 36SE CHELSHAM & FARLEIGH C.P. FARLEIGH COURT ROAD,
FARLEIGH

1/54 Church of St. Mary
the Virgin

I

Church. Circa 1100, chancel extended in 1250; C16 west porch with late C19
bell turret and vestry rebuilt in 1965. Rendered with quoins to ends, timber framed
porch; plain tiled roofs with wood shingles to bell turret. Nave and chancel
with porch and bell turret to west end and vestry to the north west. Windows all
C12 and C13 lancets with deep rere arches, 2 on the east end. Norman west door
surround with one order of shafts carrying block capitals; oak benches and billet
decoration in the parch.
Interior: simple, whitewashed with stone dressings. Chancel arch on piers with
scalloped capitals.
Fittings: Rectangular piscina in south chancel wall. Panelled and billeted pulpit.
Monuments: North nave wall; monument to Robert Shallcross died 1772. Grey and white
marble.
South chancel wall: Brass to John Brock, died 1495 with figures of his wife and
children c15 inches high.

Listing NGR: TQ3723860076

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527775

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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)