Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184978
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184978
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Orlestone
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 00010 34696
Details
TR 03 SW ORLESTONE CHURCH LANE (east side) 6/87 Church of St. Mary the Virgin 2.11.57 GV II* Parish church. Late C12/early C13 origin, altered C14, and heavily restored 1883-4 by T. Blashill. Ragstone, part rendered with plain tiled roof. Chancel, nave with shingled bell turret, western porch and vestry to south. C19 western porch with timber upper walls on flint and stone base, made up in part of window tracery removed here after restoration. Trecusped bargeboard. C19 west window, a rounded triangular oculus. Shingled turret with small lucarnes and weather vane. Timber framed C19 south vestry. Nave and chancel with cusped lancets to west, and 2 and 3 light windows with cusped sexfoil over, with offset buttresses, incorporating chimney and stoke hole at southern re-entrant to chancel. East end all of 1883-4. Interior: double framed gallery/belfry support, possibly C17in origin, but now largely C19. Roof of 2 tall crown posts on moulded tie-beams, all much restored 1883. Chancel arch set within stepped-in chancel, with heavy chamfered arch on octagonal responds with deeply undercut capitals. Crown post roof, late Cl9. Copy of nave roof. Fittings: simple chamfered piscina in chancel, roll moulded piscina in nave and small ogee headed niche or stoup by south door. Good quality C19 fittings: colonette-rail to altar, choir stalls, reading desk/half- screen to chancel wooden pinnacled lectern. Alabaster font on Early English style column, with Evangelists' symbols on bowl sides. "Tudor" style Roll of Honour carved wooden tablet (for 1914-18, with 1939-45 additions). Glass of 1888; 1893 and 1898 by Holiday. The glass and monuments in the church are largely late C19/early C20 memorials to the Oliver family. Fragments of masonry on the west wall include late C12 (Canterbury style Early English) capitals (one dated 1884) and 2 coffin lids with calvary crosses bottonée. Royal Arms of 1828 over west door, and painted C19 texts over chancel arch and west doorway: In Obitu Pax : Post Tenebrus Lux. (See B.O.E. Kent I, 442).
Listing NGR: TR0002134223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 442
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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