Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1101743
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1101743
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, HIGH 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 MARGARET, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret's At Cliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 35877 44771
Details
TR 34 SE ST MARGARET'S AT CLIFFE HIGH STREET (west side)
6/65 Church of St. Margaret 22.8.66 GV I
Parish church. Circa 1150 rebuilding of earlier building, with late C12 tower. Restored C18, and 1864 by Ewan Christian. Flint and rubble with red brick dressings and slate roof, with plain tiled roof to south aisle. Fragments of herringbone flint and flint quoins in chancel are remains of earlier (Anglo-Saxon?) church; present church with chancel, nave and aisles, north porch and western tower. Two stage tower, largely rebuilt, dated in brick on large buttresses on south face E , with 17 13 IC battlements and weather vane. Western doorway with triangular gable, with rings of carved voussoirs, with embattled moulding, nail head, rope, intersecting arches, concentric circles, with triple arcaded seated figures at springing and apex of arch, all crudely carved. Shafts with scalloped capitals. Late C12 north doorway with zigzag and dogtooth moulding and rope twist and stylised flowers. Double rebated with nook shafts with scallops and carved heads. Clerestory set in shafted ashlar arcading, irregularly spaced, with some paired arches and sub-arches. Corbelled parapet. Plain lean-to aisles, fenestrated only in 1864. Chancel with roll moulded C13 south door. Four round headed lancets on each wall set on string course, with C19 corbel table and C19 east window. Interior: large late C12 tower arch, double chamfered and pointed, on round responds with water-holding bases and scalloped capitals. Four bay arcades, alternating round and Composite piers, with zigzag order and embattled surrounds on moulded abaci with scalloped capitals and occasional carved head. Clerestory with no ornamental treatment. C19 trussed rafter roof. South aisle east window roll moulded C12, north aisle east window with triple lancets, otherwise C19. Large chancel arch, with double rebated arch on round responds with decorated capitals, with zigzag moulded surround. Plain chancel with C19 east window and roof. Fittings: round headed piscina. C19 chancel fittings and lecturn. Piscina in south aisle. Simple octagonal font dated WA The 1663. RV church was a possession of St. Martin's Priory, Dover, and rebuilt on lavish scale c.1150 by that foundation. (see BOE Kent II, 435-6).
Listing NGR: TR3592844798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 435-6
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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