Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1203363
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1203363
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stourmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 25616 62880
Details
TR 26 SE STOURMOUTH WEST STOURMOUTH
(East Side) 2/260 Church of All 11.10.63 Saints
GV I
Parish church, now redundant. Main fabric Saxon, altered late C12 with C14 and C15 fenestration. Restored and re-seated 1845. Flint and rubble stone repaired with red brick with plain tiled roof, and weather boarded tower with shingled spire. Chancel, nave and aisles, western tower and south porch. West tower with 2 massive offset C17 brick buttresses, enclosing a boarded door and porch, with C15 2 light window and roundel over. South aisle with brick parapet, 3 two-light ogee headed C14 windows, and gabled south porch with hollow chamfered doorway and strap-hinged door standing proud of door- way. Corner buttresses. Chancel with C19 rebuilt east wall and Decorated style east window, 2 lancets to south, 1 to north, and offset diagonal buttresses. Lower half of north aisle only survives, with brick buttresses and 2 hipped dormers. Interior: 3 western bays of nave consist of timber framed trusses. North arcade of 2 simple chamfered arches on plain abaci cut through wall. South arcade of 4 chamfered arches on 2 octagonal and 1 round pier, with crockets and upright leaves, some oak leaf-enrichment, and spurred and moulded bases, all based on late C12 work at Christ Church, Canterbury. Blocked double-splayed pre-Conquest window high on north wall. Roof of 3 crown posts, one renewed C20. Lean-to north aisle, cross-beamed south aisle roof. Chamfered chancel arch on square responds, with attached nook shafts. Fittings: chancel with dado panelling with built in elliptically headed piscina end choir stalls (6 to north, 6 to south), C17. Base of road screen of 4 panels, brattished rail to right. Pulpit C17, octagonal, with 2 panels on each face, guilloche decoration on arrises, and double hinged door. Box pews, with beaded panelled sides, and 4 painted inscription boards in nave also C17, C19 pews at rear of nave incorporating and reproducing the ogee headed tracery of the road screen upper panels. Brass: in chancel, Thomas Mareys, d.1472. Two foot high figure of priest with 1 mutilated shield remaining. Glass: fragments of C15 glass in chancel south window. Church redundant since 1979. (see B.O.E. Kent II, 1983 469-470).
Listing NGR: TR2545262549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 469-470
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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