Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Sheerness Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1069343
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Sheerness Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1069343
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Sheerness 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. Margaret of Antioch, Sheerness Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Halstow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 86017 67422
Details
TQ 86 NE
2/5
LOWER HALSTOW
SHEERNESS ROAD (north side)
Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
24.1.67
I
Parish church. C8, C12 lean-to aisles and C13 tower, remodelled C14-C15, restored with new porch 1913 by W.D. Caröe. Chancel and nave with aisles, south-west tower and south porch. Flint, rubble stone and re-used Roman tiles, with plain tiled roof.
Two stage south-west tower, with shingled broach spire and restored lancet window, built into Saxon nave, with restored two-light curvilinear west windows. Pebble-dashed south porch by Caröe. Heavily restored Perpendicular windows in south aisle. Inset and stepped down chancel, with three offset buttresses remains of small round-headed window outlined in tiles, and courses of sloping tiles along base of walls, with three restored Perpendicular two-light windows. East end with corner buttresses and restored Perpendicular two-light window. North chancel wall with restored lancet, C20 vestry and Saxon tile-work. North aisle with C20 buttresses, and C15/C16 champed round-headed lancet windows.
Interior: Saxon nave, original window still in tower wall. Two bay late C12 arcade to aisles, large square piers with chamfered imposts, plain pointed arches, narrower, totally unmoulded and earlier to south. Nave and aisles under one roof, trussed rafter with lean-to aisles, C18 crown post sub-roof in north aisle. Chamfered chancel arch on imposts, matching south arcade. Chancel with C13 three bay blind arcading on north and south walls, with attached marble shafts with moulded caps and bases. C15 crown post roof of three bays.
Fittings: mutilated piscina in chancel, and aumbrey in east wall. Early C17 hexagonal pulpit with tester. C18 box pews much altered by Caröe 1913. C18 chandelier suspender, heavily decorated wrought iron, the chandelier stolen.
Font: Lead , c.1190, bowl with arcade of ten beaded and foliated arches with king and angel repeated under alternate arches. At time of resurvey removed for exhibition. Carried on Spurbeck marble shafts, at time of re-survey just with wooden font cover - square C17, with C16 ogee cap. Remnant wall paintings in nave and aisles, C14, representing St. Margaret, St. Andrew. Coronation of the Virgin. Also late medieval graffiti in south aisles, and some floor tiles at east end. Royal Coat of Arms of George III over chancel arch.
(See Report to Parish by W.D. Caröe, 1913).
Listing NGR: TQ8676867356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176155
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 373-4
Robbins, P T, Church of St Margaret of St Antioch Church Guide, (1975)
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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