Diameter: 22.5" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1867
Dove Bell ID: 50784 Tower ID: 18185 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Battersea: St Paul
Overview
Grid reference: TQ 268 751
A Victorian Gothic town church situated on St John’s Hill, a main road in a residential part of Battersea. The tall steeple is visible from some distance and a local landmark within the St John’s Hill Grove Conservation Area, characterised by early 19th-century brick and stucco terraced housing with neo-classical porticos. Built in 1868 to a design by H E Coe, who designed several such modest churches in London, mostly as with St Paul’s of ragstone, in the Decorated style, and with a spire.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Aisled nave and short polygonal chancel, short transepts, north-east vestry, south-west steeple.
Description of Archaeology and History
Built in 1868 to a design by H E Coe, who designed several such modest churches in London, mostly as with St Paul’s of ragstone, in the Decorated style, and with a spire, for example at Camberwell All Saints. His church of Lambeth St Philip was demolished in 1976.
Exterior Description
The church is in a pared back Decorated style, and the massing is rather awkward. The impact in the streetscape is more important than the architectural details.
The south-west tower is the best feature of the church. It is of three stages below the spire. The lower stage has the main entrance, set into the south wall within a slightly projecting gable, with a pointed head. There is a lancet in the east wall, with traceried head. There are small slit openings irregularly set to light the spiral staircase in the second stage, while the third stage turns octagonal within clasping buttresses rising from the stage below. It has four louvred 2-light belfry windows within projecting gables connected by a string course at the base of the spire itself, which is octagonal and topped by a globe and cross finial.
The west face of the nave is pierced by a pair of 3-light windows with filigree tracery with cinquefoils in the heads, and a sexfoil above. The transepts have similar 3-lights in their outward facing walls. The west window of the north aisle is a 2-light in the same style, and such windows are also employed in the apse. Lancets elsewhere with a cinquefoil in the heads. The vestries are located at the north-east corner, the clergy vestry on the ground floor and the choir vestry above. A second entrance is to the south side of the sanctuary.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
1955
North aisle window by W Geddes and C Blakeman
Building Materials
Kentish Ragstone
Limestone
Quoins
Brick
Stone
Slate
Interior
Interior Description
The arcade arches have been filled in, but could be seen to be pointed, springing from waterleaf capitals carried by short brown marble columns on tall chamfered bases, these painted green, the dominant colour also in the redecorated rooms. The sanctuary could be viewed to the full height of the building. The focus is provided by a panelled oak reredos under the window cills, with a simple moulded cornice. The roof braces are brought down to plain corbels, those to the sanctuary arch resting on miniature columns on angel corbels.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
Oak table
Reredos
Oak panelling, tripartite
Lectern
Brass filigree reading stand, fluted stem
Plaque (object)
Brass plaque in memory of first vicar, Rev Edwin Thomson, died 1876.
Plaque (object)
Brass plaque with red and black Gothic lettering in memory of Eleanor Dain died 1897 aged 87.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: TQ 268 751
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
Further information
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