Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1085430
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BROAD STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1085430
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BROAD 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:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 38166 65212
Details
TR 3865 SW
9/64
RAMSGATE
BROAD STREET
(east side)
Church of St George
GV
I
Parish church. 1824-27, originally by Henry Hemsley, continued with alter-
ations by H.E. Kendall. Interior restored 1884 by William White. White
brick and stone dressings with slate roof. Nave with aisles, chancel with
vestries, west tower with western porches to nave aisles. Pre-archaeological
mixture of Gothic styles. Tall west tower of 2 stages with octagonal
lantern connected by flying buttresses to parapet and pinnacles. Triple
offset angle buttresses on moulded plinth, with string course. Two light
belfry openings with crocketted ogee hoods, and traceried panels below
containing clockfaces. Three light reticulated and perpendicular-mix west
window. Western, south-west and north-west doors with perpendicular style
panelling in massively crocketted ogee hoods, with stiffleaf capitals to
attached columns (i.e. Early English style), with flights of steps, the
western doorway especially grand with rails, footscrapers and swan-neck iron
lamp standards. Gabled western porches with Perpendicular tracery (integral
with doorways). Nave with triple lancet clerestory lights (i.e. C13 style)
Geometric 2 light aisle windows (i.e. C14 style), offset buttresses on
plinth, battlements and pinnacles to aisles and nave roof (i.e. C15 style).
Shallow canted apse for chancel, with buttresses and battlements, with tall
perpendicular style lights, octagonal flanking turrets and doubled chimney
stacks, with low brick vestries at ground level (in part extensions of
1884). Interior: 8 bay nave arcades, with lofty moulded arches on clustered
columns, with clerestory windows carried down by panelled bases on string
course. Ribbed vaulted roof. Crocketted chancel arch with flanking
panelled arches. Galleries to aisles with blind arcaded sides, on cast iron
columns, with plastered roofs on moulded and braced cross beams. C19 fittings
by White, early C20 chancel screen. Wall painting on west wall, From
Darkness To Light, 1885 by Henry Weigall (a resident of Ramsgate - Southwood
House). Stained glass 1961 by A.E. Buss. Cost of Church given as £32000
(Busson) or £23,034 (B.O.E.). £13000 given by church commissioners (£9000,
B.O.E.), £3000 by citizens of Ramsgate, £1000 by Trinity House who used
(and still use) the tower as a landmark (as was Holy Trinity Margate before
destruction). Despite the mixing of styles (probably a result of the
change of architects early on) and thin details, the building is well above
the Georgian Gothick norm. (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 425-6; see also Busson,
Ramsgate, 38, 40, 78 and 136.)
Listing NGR: TR3816665212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171693
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 425-426
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 38 40 78
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 136
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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