Church of St Mary the Virgin

CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1085653
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1085653
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Canterbury (District Authority)
Parish:
Chislet
National Grid Reference:
TR 22450 64308

Details

1. 5273 CHISLET CHURCH LANE

Church of St Mary The Virgin TR 26 SW 5/277 30.1.67.

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2. Chancel, central tower and nave with aisles. Built of coursed rubble with Caen stone dressings. The nave and tower are Norman. The tower once had a brached shingled spire of which the stump remains. The chancel and the aisles of the nave are C13. At the west end of the north aisle was a priest's chamber at first floor level of which the windows and the brackets that supported the floor remain. South doorway to staircase turret has C12 carved tympanum with rare timber lintol. Crownpost roof to nave, Trefoiled piscina and early C14 sedilia. C14 font. The churchyard contains some C18 headstones with skull or cherub motifs, some chest tombs and some oval bodystones.

Listing NGR: TR2240764328

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
171112
Legacy System:
LBS

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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