Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1185888
- 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:
- 1185888
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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:
- 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:
- High Halden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 90163 37237
Details
HIGH HALDEN 1. 5272 Parish Church of St Mary TQ 9037 17/169 16.8.62. I
2. Chancel, south chapel, north transept, nave with south aisle, wooden south porch unusual belfry tower at the west end of timbered construction with scissor trusses shingled outside with shingled spire above and on each side of it on the ground floor casing in the form of a wooden room (the north one now the vestry) so that the shape of the ground floor as a whole is an octagon. The nave is Norman, the chancel C14, the tower circa 1300, the south porch C14, the south chapel the north transept and the south aisle C15. C14 crown post roof to nave and aisles. Church restored by Street 1868. C13 font. The churchyard contains a tomb chest and some C18 headstones with cherub or hourglass motifs, one with serpent, book, heavenly crown and hourglass motif, an early C19 headstone with cast iron cherubs and some oval bodystones.
Listing NGR: TQ9016137236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 180230
- 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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