Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CANTERBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070009
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CANTERBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070009
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CANTERBURY 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 MARY MAGDALENE, CANTERBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denton with Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 21642 46713
Details
TR 24 NW DENTON AND WOOTTON CANTERBURY ROAD (east side) 1/37 Church of St Mary 22.8.62 Magdalene GV II* Parish church. C13, east end rebuilt 1909. Flint, in part rendered, with plain tiled roof,chancel, nave and west tower. Tall west tower on plinth with string course to battlements. Simple chamfered western doorway, with lancets in tower. C13 lancets throughout, with Cl9 lancet and Decorated 2 light in south nave and channel, knapped flint east end with poor C20 East window. C19 wooden porch on flint base, with wave chamfered north doorway. Interior: small plain pointed arch on simple abaci to tower, with similar chancel arch, with traces of nailhead ornament to abaci. Roof of 3 spindly crown posts. Chancel with single crown post roof, and north window recess, either a blocked doorway, or a reading desk recess, with fragments of medieval glass set in it. Fittings: all C19, with box pews, font. Brass: set in chancel north wall, to John Boys d.1543 (?), a fine armorial achievement with inscription below, in moulded stone surrounds. Monuments: Phineas Andrewes, d.1661. Black and white marble wall plaque, an aedicule with Corinthian pilaster and segmental pediment; apron draped and with skull and bases and enriched brackets. Achievement over. William Willats, d.1867. White marble wall plaque. Round headed tryptich-like panel, with Early English style arcade, and scenes from the Voyage of Life. Set in nave north wall by the pulpit is a stone cross, the lettering on it as yet undeciphered, with small marble plaque over to Katherine Warly, d.1717. (See BOE Kent II 1983, 284).
Listing NGR: TR2151847232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 284
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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