The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CANNON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069522
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CANNON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069522
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CANNON STREET
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:
- THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CANNON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dover
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 31920 41516
Details
685/2/25 CANNON STREET
30-JUN-49 (Northeast side)
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
II*
Parish Church. Built on the site of some Roman Baths and a Saxon
church on the site mentioned in Domesday Book, but the oldest part of the
present structure is Norman. Early C12 west tower and four bays of the arcades but aisles, remainder of the nave and chancel by J C and C Buckler in Early English style. Built of flint with stone dressings. West tower is square of five stages surmounted by spire with weathervane. Arcading on the west face, increasingly rich towards the top. Colonnettes with block capitals, arches with a series of scallops. Plain renewed west doorway with shafts. Aisles have lancet windows. Most stained glass windows were lost during the Second War.
INTERIOR: Tower arch with recessed shafts and a roll. The three west bays of the Norman nave arcades are early C12 and a further bay is almost contemporary but has a simpler base moulding. Round piers, scallop capitals and square abaci. C13 stained glass window to gallery. Norman octagonal Purbeck stone font bowl but remainder renewed. 1638 brass and a good series of C18 wall monuments. The remainder of the nave, aisles and chancel are of 1843-4. C19 pews.
[Buildings of England "North East and East Kent" Revised 1983 pp 297-8.]
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Listing NGR: TR3192041516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Kent III, (1983), 297-8
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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