Church of St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Leatherhead

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St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Leatherhead
The Church Tower of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas, Leatherhead, seen from the South.
Dedication	Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas
Denomination	Church of England
Tradition	Broad Church
Administration
Parish	Leatherhead
Deanery	Leatherhead
Archdeaconry	Dorking
Diocese	Guildford
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Vicar	Canon David Eaton
Other
Organist/Director of Music	David Oliver
Website	www.parishchurch.leatherheadweb.org.uk

The Church of St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Leatherhead, is an Anglican parish church. Dating originally to around the 11th Century^[1], it remains a place of worship to this day.

Contents 1 History 2 Architecture 3 Music 4 Photo gallery 5 References

[edit] History

[edit] Architecture

The tower was built in the late 15th Century: its large-scale angle buttresses, flattened Perpendicular arches and windows (with their cinquepartite cusping) and carved spandrels above the West Door mark it out from the rest of the building, as (with the exception of the fine South Transept window) all other Perpendicular details are small and simple, without any of the splendour of those on the tower. Many of them were heavily restored in the 19th Century by Arthur Blomfield, having been plastered over in the 17th Century - some of this plaster can still be seen on the South wall of the South aisle. The stained glass windows in the church date back to the mid 19th Century. ^[2]

[edit] Music

[edit] Photo gallery

The South face of the 15th-Century tower	The West face of the tower	The West window and doors	The Church from the North/North-East
The Church from the North-East	The North side of the Nave	The North side of the Chancel	The South side of the Chancel
The South side of the Nave

[edit] References