Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, VALE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086069
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VALE SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086069
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VALE SQUARE
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VALE SQUARE
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 37683 64689
Details
RAMSGATE VALE SQUARE TR 3764 NE (west side) 12/402 Christ Church GV II Parish church. 1846-7 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Ragstone with slate roof and shingled spire. Nave with aisles, chancel with south chapel and north-eastern tower in Early English style. Continuous plinth with buttresses throughout. Three stage tower with corner buttresses and broach spire and with quatrefoil openings with clockface over. Paired lancets, some to nave with quatrefoils over. North, west and south gabled porches with hood-moulded arched doorways. Interior: high and broad, nave arcade of 4 bays with double chamfered arches on round piers, with roof of 3 crown posts. North aisle blocked and rendered with boarded central doorway, and double arched plank and stud door to west, and converted to vestry and parish rooms. Double chamfered chancel arch. Trussed rafter roofs to aisles, also with double chamfered arches to chapel and ground floor of tower. Chancel double chamfered arches to north and, on hollow chamfered octagonal responds, to south. Trussed rafter roofs throughout. Shafted and moulded reveals to chancel lancets. Fittings: trefoil headed arcaded reredos, the central 5 bays with triangular heads. Trefoil arcaded altar rails. Brass lecturn dated 1885. Pulpit, the base at least dated 1922, with stone coved base, arcaded sides and rail and marble colonettes and hand rail. Some mid C19 furnishings. Original tiled floors. The church was part of James Creed Eddel's scheme to develop Vale Square, the builders/developer was William Saxby, see item 12/389. (See Busson, Ramsgate, 127 to 128; B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 425).
Listing NGR: TR3768364689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172038
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 425
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 127-128
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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