THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, OAK WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1068961
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, OAK WALK

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Date:: 2003-05-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1068961
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, OAK WALK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, OAK WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Hythe
National Grid Reference:: TR 16149 34915

Details

HYTHE

THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

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Dates from circa 1100. Alterations by J L Pearson in 1880s. Built of Kentish ragstone with Caen stone window dressings. The interior has a 4 bay nave and North and South aisles with Cl3 and c14 pillars. Clerestory. Chancel arch. North and South transepts. The tower was added in 1751 and the South Transept is also c18. The Ambulatory built circa 1220 AD houses a neatly stacked collection of 1200 skulls and 8000 thigh bones of the C13 and c14. It is thought that these were exhumed from the graveyard in order to make more space for the plague victims of the C14 and C15.

Listing NGR: TR1615234913

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 175160
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.