The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Mary and St Nicholas (medieval)
Parish church
Leatherhead is is a town in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, approximately 20 miles S of London. The church of St Mary and St Nicholas stands to the S of the pedestrianised centre of the town. It consists of a chancel, transepts, an aisled nave with a N porch and a W tower. The earliest work is in the nave arcades of c.1200.The chancel arch is slightly later13thc work. The tower belongs to the 15thc and the N transept is 19thc, perhaps a rebuilding. The most striking feature of the church is the setting of the tower: at an oblique angle to the nave, so that the S aisle is almost half a bay shorter than the N. The church is of flint with limestone and some sandstone dressings. It was restored by Blomfield in 3 campaigns between 1873 and 1894, and E Christian restored the chancel in 1874. The only features recorded here are the nave arcades.