Church of St Rumwold
CHURCH OF ST RUMWOLD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1071194
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumwold
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMWOLD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1071194
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumwold
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMWOLD
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 RUMWOLD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bonnington
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 05715 34426
Details
TR 03 SE BONNINGTON 7/77 Church of St. Rumwold 27.11.57 GV I Parish church. C12, nave rebuilt C13/C14. Ragstone with timber framed and brick infill porch and weather boarded turret, with plain tiled roof and leaded turret roof. Chancel and nave with western turret and northern porch. Offset buttresses, repaired with brick, to western end, with double hollow chamfered western doorway with drip mould. Leaded ogee-shaped roof to turret with vane post. Nave with 3 offset buttresses to each wall with 2 cusped 2 light Y-tracery windows on each wall. Chamfered south doorway and hollow chamfered north door with drip mould in timber porch with ragstone base and cusped bargeboard over doorway with durns Nave east wall with lancets (blocked to south). Chancel stepped with Romanesque lancet to north, C16 2 light Perpendicular window to south and Romanesque triple East window. Interior: nave with roof of 2 crown posts and early C17 timber gallery structure at west end, the floor boards missing, but with turned baluster rail and upper flight of newel stairs. Chamfered chancel arch on moulded imposts. Chancel with plastered barrel roof. Fittings: segmentally arched double piscina in east wall and partly blocked aumbrey in south wall of chancel, with window seat to C16 chancel south window. Turned baluster altar rail with wrought iron supports to gate piers, simple wainscotting to sanctuary and raised and fielded panelled choir stalls. C18 octagonal pulpit with attached reading desk, with raised and fielded panels on rendered masonry base, with Greek key cornice and fluted pilastered back panel to tester with Greek key and modillioned cornice. Small trefoiled and ogee headed beaded niche on nave north-east wall. Bulbous font of Bethersden marble on square base, with railed surround (taken from altar rail?) with re-used Poppy head bench end. Bolection moulded prayer boards and benefaction board in nave (dated 1774, recording the benefaction of Valentine Knott of 8 shillings p.a. from Pinn Farm, 1614 Fragments of glass, C14 and Cl5, in nave, and East window dated 1907. Royal Arms, mid C18, on west wall. (See B.O.E. Kent I, 172-3).
Listing NGR: TR0587934349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181662
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 172-3
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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