Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1069126
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1069126
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH 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 PETER, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oare
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 00788 63323
Details
TR 06 SW LUDDENHAM + OARE CHURCH ROAD (East side)
(Oare) 2/156 Church of 24.1.67 St. Peter
GV I
Parish Church. C13, C16 and restored and spire added 1877-8 by Joseph Clarke. Flint and rubble stone with plain tiled roof and shingled spire. Chancel and nave with belfry and spire at west end, north-west vestry and south porch. West end rebuilt and dated 1877 with 2 large pinnacled buttresses, restored C13 roll moulded doorway with quatrefoil over. Relieving arch to belfry. Diagonal offset buttresses. Half-timbered south porch, C16 Perpendicular and C19 windows except single cusped light in north nave wall. Exposed quoins of nave incorporated in widened chancel walls. Lean-to vestry at north-west. Interior: no chancel arch, roof of 3 crown posts in nave, roof of 2 crown posts in chancel. C19 fittings and furniture except large Romanesque Purbeck marble font on renewed shafts. Timbered gallery at west end. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 408-9)
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176760
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 408-9
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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