Church of St Simon and St Jude
CHURCH OF ST SIMON AND ST JUDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110302
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Simon and St Jude
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SIMON AND ST JUDE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110302
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Simon and St Jude
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SIMON AND ST JUDE
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 SIMON AND ST JUDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gillingham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 80166 28666
Details
ST 82 NW GILLINGHAM MILTON-ON-STOUR
3/135 Church of St Simon and St Jude
- II
Chapel of Ease, 1868 by Slater and Carpenter. Coursed, squared rubble with gable-ended, tiled roof with stone copings. Plan: nave, apsidal chancel, north and south aisles, west tower, north vestry/organ chamber. Generally in the early 'Decorated' style. West tower: 3 stages with broach spire, sqaure set buttresses and southern vice; 2-centred west window with geometric tracery and label with headstops; small lancets to second stage; third stage has paired lancets with roll-mouldings and pierced stone panels; spire bears quatrefoils. Aisles have trefoiled, paired lancets. East and west aisle windows have 2-centred heads and plate tracery. Chancel has lancets with trefoiled heads and labels with head-stops. Gabled porch with 2-centred moulded arch and shafted jambs with carved capitals. Inner doorway is roll-moulded and has a door with scrolled, wrought-iron hinges. External vice door similar. Internal features: 3-bay arcades with 2-centred heads of 2-chamfered orders and round piers with carved capitals; 2-centred chancel arch with shafted jambs having carved capitals and label with head-stops over; 2-centred, moulded tower arch with flat soffit and semi-pilasters with carved capital to jambs; nave roof has arch braced collar trusses springing from corbels, queenposts with windbracing to upper purlins and 2 sets of windbraced purlins; chancel has, ribbed, boarded barrel-vault roof; boarded aisle roofs; roofs are painted with fleurons and other decoration; arcaded stone pulpit with marble shafts dated 1887; round font with clustered shafts; pews with carved bench ends; C19/C20 glass. (Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England; Dorset, Penguin 1972, p 295).
Listing NGR: ST8016628666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 295
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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