CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH

CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH, LULLINGSTONE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1222051
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH, LULLINGSTONE LANE

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Date:: 2001-05-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1222051
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH, LULLINGSTONE LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT BOTOLPH, LULLINGSTONE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Eynsford
National Grid Reference:: TQ 52992 64436

Details

EYNSFORD LULLINGSTONE LANE 1. 5280 Lullingstone TQ 56 SW 5/63 1.6.67 Church of St Botolph I

2. Possibly of Norman origin. Visible evidence of C14, C16 and C18. Built of knapped flint with a strip of red brick along the top. Slate roof. Nave and lower chancel possibly Norman altered in early C14. Decorated 2 and 3 light windows, the east window reticulated. Early C16 north chapel of brick and stone dressings. Large early C18 stuccoed south porch and west bell turret by Percyvall Hart who died in 1738. Interior has fine C18 plaster ceilings, window surrounds and chancel arch decorated with alternate mitres and crowns. Fine late perpendicular rood screen with pomegranite of Aragon and rebus of Sir John Pec C18 balustrade, pulpit, benches and black and white marble pavement. C14, C16 and C18 glass by W Peckitt of York. Fine monuments to Sir John Peche (died 1922) a standing wall monument to Sir Percyvall Hart (died 1581). Sir George Hart (died 1587), Percyvall Hart (died 1738) with fine rococo Gothic arcading and Anne Dyke (died 1763) a hanging monument in the manner of Sir Henry Cheeres. The church to Lullingstone Castle.

Listing NGR: TQ5301664385

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Legacy System number:: 411973
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.