Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1116287
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1116287
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rolvenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84509 31219
Details
ROLVENDEN 1. 5272 Parish Church of St Mary TQ 8431 18/252 16.8.62. I
2. Built of rubble sandstone with west tower of ironstone. Chancel with North and South Chapels, Nave with Aisles, North Porch with parvise and West Tower. Lancet windows in the Chancel, the arcades of the Chancel and the South arcade of the Nave are C15, the North Aisle of the Nave is C14. The remainder of the Church is C15. Five bay Nave with Kingpost roof. Organ supported on 4 octagonal cast iron columns. In the South, or St Katherine and St Mary's Chapel is an unusual Gallery, erected in 1825, which is the family pew of the occupants of Hole Park. Beneath this Gallery is the mortuary Chapel of the Gybbon-Monypenny family which occupied Hole Park prior to the present century. The churchyard contains table tombs, oval bodystones and C18 headstones with skull, hourglass, serpent biting tail, heavenly crown, urn and cherub and trumpet motifs.
Listing NGR: TQ8451231219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 180300
- 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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