St Mary, West Horsley
St Mary, West Horsley
St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I parish church on Epsom Road in West Horsley, Surrey, in the Diocese of Guildford.
- Location
- West Horsley, Surrey
- Country
- England
- County
- Surrey
- City / town
- West Horsley
- Address
- Epsom Road, West Horsley, Surrey, KT24 6AP
- Postcode
- KT24 6AP
- Built
- C12 tower and west nave wall; north aisle c.1210; restored 1869
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Guildford
- Parish
- West Horsley
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman and Early English
- Materials
- Rendered rubble stone with chalk and Bath stone quoins; flint rubble tower with wood-shingled broach spire; plain tile roofs
- Grid reference
- TQ 088 526
- Opening hours
- Please contact St Mary's church office at the email provided below.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a church with a twelfth-century tower and west wall of the nave, a north aisle of about 1210, restoration in 1869, and a sixteenth-century aisle and chapel. The fabric is rendered rubble stone with chalk and Bath stone angle quoins, flint rubble on the tower with a wood-shingled broach spire, and a plain tile roof. The plan has nave and chancel with a north porch, a west tower and further porch, and a south-east vestry. The three-stage tower carries a broach spire that is four-sided on the tower and octagonal above, with lancets to the top stage.
The listing notes remains of a thirteenth-century St Christopher wall painting north of the west door and traces of paintings on the south wall. There is a substantial series of marble monuments. The village history states that the church was spared when the rest of the settlement was burned in 1066; the listing itself begins the fabric in the twelfth century.