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St Mary's Church, Battersea

Historic site · Battersea, England

St Mary's Church stands on the riverbank at Battersea Church Road, SW11 3NA, and is listed Grade I as 'Church of St Mary and churchyard wall and gate', NHLE 1357626. It is a working Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Southwark. The parish states that the church is often open for private prayer as well as advertised times of public worship, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday daytime, and gives its office hours separately as Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4pm.

History

The Grade I listing was made on 28 June 1954 as list entry 1357626, and it is one of five Grade I entries in the borough. The parish states that a church has stood on the bank of the Thames here since the 8th century; the present brick church dates from the 1770s. Old Battersea House on Vicarage Crescent, built about 1699, is listed Grade II*, NHLE 1065500, on the same day. Clapham Junction, 1,428 m away, is the nearest station on the Wandsworth side of the river; Imperial Wharf, on the Mildmay line and Southern, is 563 m but across the Thames in Hammersmith and Fulham, and Chelsea Harbour Pier, on RB6, is 423 m and also across the river.

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Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA

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