List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST PAUL
List entry Number: 1385599
Location
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HERNE HILL
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 30-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 471003
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3274 HERNE HILL
636-1/14/424 (East side)
30/06/54 Church of St Paul
GV II*
Church. 1858. By Street. Coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and
dressings; pitched slate roof. A rebuilding by Street of a
church of 1843-4, damaged by fire, by G Alexander, built by
Holland and Hannen.
STYLE: Early English.
PLAN: long 5-bay nave and western Perpendicular tower part of
original church; side aisles with lean-to roofs. Slightly
lower chancel as east extension of nave, with extensions to
north as vestry, to south as organ chamber.
EXTERIOR: tower with stepped corner buttresses has entrance
beneath tall traceried window, with twin bell openings above.
Spire with flying corner buttresses and pinnacles. Large
Decorated stained-glass east window and ground-floor windows
with plate tracery; pairs of round windows with quatrefoils to
clerestory. Entrance porch in north aisle, 2nd bay from west.
INTERIOR: has nave columns with carved crocket capitals;
clerestory with trefoil arcading on short marble capitals.
Timber arched brace roof to nave. Carved rood screen of 1921;
marble and alabaster reredos with carved heads in chancel.
Carving by Earp, stained glass (mostly lost in War, some
surviving in west windows of aisles) by Hardman. Carved rood
screen of 1921.
Listing NGR: TQ3216074583
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National Grid Reference: TQ 32160 74583
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