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TQ3579 ST MARYCHURCH STREET 636-1/6/729 (North side) 06/12/49 Church of St Mary Rotherhithe (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY CHURCH STREET (North side) Church of St Mary)

GV II*

Church. 1714 rebuild of medieval church, tower inscribed 1747, spire rebuilt 1861, interior restored 1876. Tower by L Dowbiggin, interior by William Butterfield. MATERIALS: yellow brick with red brick and white stone dressings; heavy dentil cornice with brick parapet above to main building, stone quoins to church and tower. PLAN: rectangular plan with projecting west tower, centre bay at east end projecting as sanctuary, later 1-storey extension to north east for vestry and hall extension to north. EXTERIOR: main body of church 2 storeys, 5 bays with doors at either end of south side (right one now blocked up) with segmental-headed stone architrave, angel-head keystone and cornice on scrolled console brackets. Short, segmental-headed ground-floor windows with stone architraves and keystones and rubbed, red brick surrounds. Similar treatment to tall 1st-floor windows with round arches. Tower of 3 storeys, 1 bay to each face, has door in south side with stone Gibbs surround and cornice over. Ground and 1st floor of tower treated like main church, frieze and cornice above 1st floor. Tall 2nd floor with, on each face, a clock below and above a round-arched, louvred bell opening with bracketed and eared stone architrave with keystone. Balustraded parapet, circular Corinthian lantern stage above; obelisk spire. Similarly treated, large round-arched windows to east end, the wider central bay projecting and with pediment. INTERIOR: a coved nave of 3 unequal bays with 2 giant Ionic columns each side to aisles with flat ceilings. Segmental arch to sanctuary, with C18 panelling and reredos with fluted Corinthian columns, later C19 painted panels by Florence T Nicholson. Panelled west gallery with triglyph motifs on slender wrought-iron columns with curled wrought-iron capitals. FITTINGS: organ in original case with Doric entablature and rococo ornament, by John Byfield, 1764. MEMORIALS: monuments include: Captain Anthony Wood, 1625 with

relief of 3-masted ship; and rococo cartouche monument to Joseph Wade, King's Carver, 1743.

Listing NGR: TQ3517279848

External Links

• St Mary's Church at Wikipedia
• St Mary's Church official website
• Wikidata Q7590184

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)