Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HURSTWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185866
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HURSTWOOD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185866
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HURSTWOOD 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 ST PETER, HURSTWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bredhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79903 62126
Details
TQ 76 SE BREDHURST HURSTWOOD ROAD (north side)
1/116 Church of St. Peter 26.4.68 II
Parish Church. Norman and C13,heavily restored in 1866. Flint with stone dressings and plain-tile roof. Nave and south porch 1866 in Early English style. Chancel Norman with projecting C13 south aisle, both restored in 1866. Nave has double bell-cote on roof at east end. South Porch with wooden screen on flint base with cusped, low-sweeping bargeboards and arched doorhead with small moulded crown-post on crenellated beam above. South aisle of chancel gabled. 3 single lancets, repaired externally; one in west end, 2 in south wall. Pair of lancets in east wall. C19 buttresses. Chancel roof lower and less steeply pitched than that of aisle, and lower than that of nave. Triple lancet in east end, restored externally. 4 single lancets in north wall; 3 aligned and unrestored, one presumably older much smaller and restored, at lower level between west two. Interior: 2-bay south arcade to chancel has single circular central chalk pier with roll moulding to top and arches of 2 orders with plain chamfers springing from corbels on the plain end piers. North lancet in east wall of south chapel has an original corbelled impost with traces of waterleaf decoration. Stepped base, topped with a roll, of capital between north and south lancets. Roof of C19 scissor-braced construction with collars, ashlar- pieces, projecting moulded sole-plates and cornice. Fragment of wall-painting above lancets in east end of south aisle and along south wall of south aisle traces of foliated frieze in red ochre with vertical lines below, possibly the start of a key.
Listing NGR: TQ7973162234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173623
- 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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