Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, RYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124178
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, RYE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124178
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, RYE ROAD
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 ALL SAINTS, RYE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76208 30509
Details
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (south side) Highgate 17/422 Church of All Saints GV II Chapel of ease. 1861, by Sir G G Scott for Rev H E and Miss C Jennings. Sand- stone with plain tiled roof and shingled spire. chancel, nave with aisles, south-eastern tower and north porch. Exterior of uniform execution with plinth, string course, offset corner buttresses and corbel table to parapet-gabled roofs with cross finials. Paired cusped lancets with trefoils under single hood throughout, with wheel window in western gable, and west window set in blind arcading. Blind arcading also to chancel north wall. Tower of 3 stages with off- set corner buttresses, lancette stair lights and recessed lancet belfry openings with roundels over and corbel table to broach spire. Gabled north porch with arcaded side walls (integral benches within) and moulded outer and inner doorways with attached shafts and hoods and florid stiff-leaf decoration, the inner door with good quality scrolled C-strap hinges. Interior: faced with sandstone ashlar, with 4 bay arcades, the round piers with French influenced crockets and with keel-moulded arches, with corbelled colonettes to responds. Open trussed rafter roof. Roll and keel moulded chancel arch on corbels, and simple hood moulded arches from south aisle and chancel to tower chapel. Sanctuary with blind arcading with marble shafts and string course, windows with attached shafts. Fittings: brass foliage bracketed altar rail and scrolled carved bench ends in chancel. Brass lectern and enriched brass rail to stone pulpit with dogtooth and water leaf enrichment and relief panels of Apostles. Columned stem. Fluted stem and bowl font with inscription and Holy Dove. All fittings by Scott. Glass in chancel by Clayton and Bell, 1861. See BOE, Kent, I, 1980, 316; see also Victorian Churches of Kent, Roger Homans, 1984, 64.
Listing NGR: TQ7620830509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169772
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 316
Homans, R, Victorian Churches of Kent, (1984), 64
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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