Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, LOWER BROOMFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1060942
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, LOWER BROOMFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1060942
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, LOWER BROOMFIELD ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, LOWER BROOMFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broomfield and Kingswood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84001 52495
Details
BROOMFIELD LOWER BROOMFIELD TQ 85 SW ROAD (east side) 2/13 Church of 26.4.68 St. Margaret GV II*
Parish Church. Late C11 or C12, and C15, restored 1879 by G.M. Hill, Roughly coursed stone with plain tile roof. West porch, west tower, nave, and chancel with north vestry. West porch: late C19. Stone. Frieze of leaded lights on either side, with diamond wood mullions. Broad pointed-arched wood architrave with hollow spandrels to ribbed door. Cusped barge- boards. Moulded C15 two-centred-arched stone inner doorway with trefoiled spandrels and partly renewed squared moulded hoodmould. West tower: C15. Two stages, on moulded stone plinth, with battlements above moulded string. Trefoil- headed louvres with squared hoodmoulds to each side of belfry. Small 2-light west window with trefoil-headed lights, cavetto mullions and squared hoodmould. Nave: late C11 or C12. South elevation of uncoursed stone, plinthless, with 2 buttresses and two C19 trefoil-headed lights. Chancel: 1879, of coursed galletted stone. Plinthless. C19 windows. 2 rainwater heads dated 1879. Re-set plaque above east window: "This chancel was rebuilt by Mrs Susanna Meredith of Leeds Abbey Anno Domini MDCCXLIX". North vestry: C19. Gabled, with trefoil-headed lights and hollow-chamfered east doorway. Nave: north elevation: roughly coursed stone. Plinthless, with one buttress. Chamfered, rebated lancet towards east end with short narrow blocked round-headed window beside it to west. 2-light C15 window towards centre, with cinquefoil-headed lights, cavetto mullions and squared moulded hood-mould. Small blocked ogee- headed window towards west, head formed from 2 blocks of stone. Interior: Structure: aisleless nave. C15 chancel arch with casement mouldings and one short attached shaft either side with moulded capital and base. Similar tower arch. Broad pointed-arched recess with low cill on either side of nave towards east end. Roof: 2 tall moulded crown-posts to nave, probably medieval, on moulded medieval tie-beams with later brattishing. Ashlar pieces. C19 crown-post roof to chancel. [J. Newman, Buildings of England Series, West Kent and The Weald, 1980]
Listing NGR: TQ8385552452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174030
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)
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