Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237584
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237584
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LONDON 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 NICHOLAS, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sholden
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 35924 52170
Details
SHOLDEN LONDON ROAD TR 35 SE (North side)
5/81 Church of St. Nicholas 11.10.63
GV II*
Parish church. C13 with C14 fenestration and tower, C17 porch, all heavily restored late C19. Knapped flint and plain tiled roof. Nave and chancel north porch and west tower. Three stage tower with string courses corner buttresses and parapet. Nave with restored Y-tracery windows and buttresses, chancel stepped in with renewed lancets, and low windows to north and south. North porch C17 of red brick on flint, the end wall rebuilt C19 in brown brick. C19 doorways. Interior: plain chamfered tower door, fine C15 chancel arch on round responds with moulded octagonal capitals and bases, and wave moulded outer order carried all the way round the arch. The inner reveals of chancel lancets are original C13 work. C19 roofs, of crown posts in the nave. The nave extends to north of chancel and tower as if aisled on plan. The north doorway C15, with attached shafts and moulded surround. C19 fittings, including bad marble reredos. Monuments: large series of black and white marble wall plaques, early and mid C19 Neo-classical, the best to Sarah Curling, d. 1845, with draped urn and enriched bracketed base, signed J. Milligan, Portland Rd, London, and Jane Harvey, d.1842, with a sarcophagus on claw feet, with fasces on the sides, and small coffin over, signed E. Gaffin, Regent St. London. Originally a chapelry of Northbourne. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 460)
Listing NGR: TR3582952152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Kent II, (1983), 460
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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