Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1069116
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1069116
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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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 MICHAEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hernhill
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 06491 60680
Details
TR 06 SE HERNHILL HERNHILL GREEN (South side)
3/130 Church of 24.1.67 St. Michael
GV I
Parish Church. C15. Chancel rebuilt 1833, restored 1867; nave restored 1877. Chancel, north chapel, nave with aisles and south east chapel, western tower and north porch. Flint and plain tiled roof. Two stage western tower with plinth, string course, cornice and battlements with four times offset diagonal buttresses and south-eastern octagonal stair turret. Double hollow chamfered western doorway. Roll and hollow chamfer north porch doorway with rib and stud door, and interior doorway with hollow chamfer and octagonal attached shafts. Perpendicular C15 tracery throughout, part restored. Stone over east window with inscription:
This Chancel Built by Percy Groves A.D. 1833
Interior: double hollow chamfered tower arch and attached shafts with octagonal capitals. Three bay nave arcade with slim shafts in clusters of 4, with moulded capitals and bases. Double hollow chamfered arcade deeply undercut. Chamfered doorway to stair turret. Roof of 4 crown posts, the end 2 with shortened posts. North aisle with corbel table, cornice and rafter roof, south aisle with roof of 3 crown posts. No chancel arch. Moulded archway through the south east chapel. C19 arch to north (Dawes) chapel. Fitting: four centred arched doors and stair to missing rood left. C15 screen of 5 bays with traceried bays attached shafts and crocketted ogee surrounds, and C19 top section. Chamfered piscina and aumbrey in south aisle. C18 brass chandelier of 12 sticks. Glass: South aisle, C18 window heads, and 3 painted panels, the storey of Joseph, signed C. Handley, 1836 (the Vicar's wife]. In the churchyard are buried John Nichols Thom alias Sir William Courteney, and 6 of his followers, all killed in the Courteney Riots of 1838. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 391).
Listing NGR: TR0656060805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 391
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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