Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121964
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121964
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH HILL
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 PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eythorne
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 27958 49705
Details
EYTHORNE CHURCH HILL TR 24 NE (South Side) 4/20 Church of St. Peter and St. 11.10.63 Paul GV II* Parish church. Circa 1200 with C15 Perpendicular north tower and porch. Restored 1873-4 with south vestry added. Flint with plain tiled roof. Chancel and chapel, nave and aisle, north tower and south vestry. Two stage northern tower with offset angle buttresses. Simple roll moulded north doorway in tower to vaulted porch, with chamfered quadripartite vault and large central boss with bearded male face. Largely restored fenestration, but with lancets to north aisle and chapel, and the head at least of the chapel east window original with 3 quatrefoils. Interior: 2 bay north arcade with simple chamfered arches on square pier with moulded abaci, similar arch to north chapel from aisle, C19 waggon vault roofs with 2 crown posts in nave. C19 chancel arch, and restored double chamfered 2 bay arcade to north chapel on central pier of 4 clustered columns. Fittings: Sedilia, restored 2 seater, with original central shaft with trefoiled leaf capital, with drip mould over resting to centre on an angel boss. Simple chamfered double piscina. Remains of C19 chancel decoration with crocketed recesses either side of east window, and stylised flower panels on walls. Piscina and aumbry in north chapel, partly encased in early C20 panelling. Lectern, by J.P. Seddon, brass, with 2 attached candle brackets, and 3 spear headed shafts around central twisted stem. Font: disused bowl dated 1628, of lead, and 7 repeated figures of naked Venus bearing a torch. Monuments: John Minet. Rector of Eyethorne, d.l774. Simple white marble wall plaque in the chancel, with foliated and scrolled sides with pediment-shaped cornice. Susanna Sankey, d.1799. Coade stone wall monument in the north chapel, with a simple inscription panel with egg and tongue frieze forming a base to a sarcophagus on claw feet with draped medallion of a woman and urn, and over the sarcophagus a funerary urn on brackets. (See B.O.E. Kent, II, 1983, 313 to 314).
Listing NGR: TR2799449647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 313-314
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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