Golden Green Mission Church

Golden Green Mission Church, Three Elm Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070418
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Golden Green Mission Church
Statutory Address:
Golden Green Mission Church, Three Elm Lane
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070418
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1990
Date of most recent amendment:
17-May-2000
List Entry Name:
Golden Green Mission Church
Statutory Address 1:
Golden Green Mission Church, Three Elm Lane

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Golden Green Mission Church, Three Elm Lane

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:
Hadlow
National Grid Reference:
TQ 63764 48252

Details

TQ 64 NW
1694/6/102

HADLOW
GOLDEN GREEN
THREE ELM LANE
Golden Green Mission Church

19-FEB-90

II
Church, also used as a community hall. Erected c1914 either as a new structure or reusing existing building from another site. Timber-framed, clad and roofed with corrugated iron, painted green.

PLAN: small chapel on east west axis comprising nave and chancel in the same block. North porch towards the west end. Later C20 kitchen and toilet block in matching materials to rear.

EXTERIOR: front has three windows with pointed arched heads containing timber Y-tracery. There is another each end and one more south of the chancel. Gabled porch with two-centred outer arch containing a plain plank door. Roof is gable- ended.

INTERIOR: four bays. Lined with pine tongue-and-groove planking with plain pine russes.with three tiers of purlins and ridgepiece and iron supports.

HISTORY: Kelly's Directory of Kent of 1891 mentions the "iron church at Golden Green in connection with the parish church" but Golden Green Mission Church was not erected until after 1914 when the land was gifted to the vicar and churchwardens of Hadlow by the local landowner Mr Osim d'Avigdor Goldsmid of Somerhill for use as the site for a church.Since the mid 1970s it has also been used as a community hall.

Listing NGR: TQ6457348176

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
179538
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory of Kent, (1891)

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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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