Parish Church of St Margaret of Antioch
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1086400
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1086400
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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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.
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, ST MARGARET'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74022 68064
Details
ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7648 SW 9/239 Parish Church of St Margaret of 24.10.50 Antioch GV II* Parish Church. W tower of c.1458-65; nave and chancel with N and S aisles (with galleries) 1823-4 by Sydney Smirke; sanctuary with side vestries, 1839-40 by Richard Hussey; 'Decorated' style E window inserted 1872. W tower, random rubble ragstone with some flint dressings, the rest presumably of brick, stuccoed throughout; Welsh slate roof. Tower, 3 stages with NE polygonal stair turret; battlements; diagonal buttresses with flint panels and 3 set-offs. Double belfry openings; single trefoil-headed lancet to each face of middle stage. Perpendicular 3-light W window over moulded doorway with label. Nave (includes chancel), 5 bays, 2 tiers of windows all under elliptically-headed arches between broad pilasters. Deeply overhanging eaves and verges, the latter in the form of pediments. Sanctuary, lower with flanking offices, the E end with pedimented verges; 3 light 'Decorated' E window with original recessed round-headed window to offices. Interior: galleries to N and S, wooden columns with capitals, Doric below, Ionic above; coffered panel ceiling; round-headed chancel arch. Medieval tower arch survives. Monuments. Brass (a demi-figure), to Thomas Cod, died 1465 in Victorian frame; good rural monument to Thomas Manley Esq, died 1690 in a foliage plaster frame with heraldic device; several other good quality C18 and C19 rural monuments. Complete 1870s tiling to chancel and sanctuary. Church guide: St Margaret's, Rochester, a Brief History (no author, not dated).
Listing NGR: TQ7402468065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
St Margaret's Rochester A Brief History, ()
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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