Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHART ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060905
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHART ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060905
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHART ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHART ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Valence
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80969 49189
Details
SUTTON VALENCE CHART ROAD TQ 8044-8149 (north side) 7/123 Church of St Mary 26.4.68 GV II
Parish church. 1823-8 by W. Ashenden, incorporating medieval work. Alterations of 1866, and of 1874 by G.M. Hills. Small blocks of coursed stone. Slate roof. West tower, nave, south aisle, south porch, chancel with north and south chapels, north aisle. West tower: 3 stages on moulded plinth with battlements. Semi-octagonal clasping buttresses to 2 lower stages. Pointed arched louvred opening to each face of belfry. 3-light west window. Tall narrow 2-centred arched west doorway with worn moulded jambs and hoodmould. South aisle: stops short of west end of tower. Diagonal south-west buttress. Pointed arched west window. Four 3-light south windows alternating with buttresses; 2 each side of porch. South porch: closely flanked by 2 buttresses with aisle window-head over. Battlemented. Pointed arched doorway with squared hoodmould, incorporating quatrefoiled medieval spandrels. 4-centred arched inner doorway. South chapel: virtually continuous with south aisle but with slightly lower eaves. Diagonal south-east buttress. Pointed arched south doorway with hoodmould, and blind quatrefoil set above it. 2-light east window. Chancel: with chamfered corners and diagonal buttresses. Hipped roof. Broad 3-light east window of 1866 by Habershon. North chapel: as south, but without quatrefoil. North aisle: stops short of west end of tower. Four 3-light windows flanked by buttresses. Blind bay to west end. Pointed arched west window. Interior: Structure: 4-bay north and south arcades inserted 1874 by G.M. Hills, with octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases in a medieval style. Similar C19 pointed, double-chamfered arches to chancel arch and between aisles and chapels. Attached columns of chancel arch, inner columns and outer corbels of aisle/chapel arches medieval; corbels with grotesque faces and gadrooned sides, columns octagonal with moulded capitals and bases. Complete medieval double-chamfered pointed arch with attached columns between chancel and each chapel. No tower arch, but 3-bay arcade of pointed arches opening on to corbelled and quatrefoiled stone balcony with iron railings half way up tower. Panelled 4-centred arched door within wall partitioning west bay of north and south aisles from rest of aisle. Scientific raked queen-strut roof to nave. Fittings: C15 octagonal concave-sided font with petalled flowers, on shafted octagonal stem with moulded base. Early C20 square wooden pulpit with canted corners, fielded panels to sides, and fluting to corner panels, on fluted stem. 1844 Benefactors' board at west end of south aisle. Monuments: tapering stone tomb slab with raised cross at west end of south aisle. (J Newman, West Kent and The Weald, 1980).
Listing NGR: TQ8096949189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174142
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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