Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247812
- 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:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247812
- 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:
- Tilmanstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 29709 48277
Details
TILMANSTONE WALDERSHARE TR 24 NE
6/135 Church of 11.10.63 All Saints
GV II*
Parish church, now redundant. C12 in origin, with mortuary chapels added C.1697 and C.1712. Main body of church restored and virtually rebuilt 1886 by Ewan Christian, and 1902. Flint and rubble, with red brick chapels, in English bond on south, with slate roof and tiled chapel roofs. Chancel with chapels and nave with south porch. Lancet fenestration throughout main body of church only 1 in south chancel of C12 origin with C15 style 2 light windows in chapels and 1 in north nave wall, possibly original. Double buttressed west front with bell gable, the bell re-hung on nave south wall. Gabled south porch. Interior: little architectural expression; double chamfered chancel arch, queen strut roof. Chancel with arches to north and south chapels, and remains of genuine C12 and C13 window surrounds. Chapels with wooden barrel roofs, that to south with additional crown-posts. Fittings: piscinas in nave and chancel, mutilated. Painted and mosaic reredos with marble triptych, arcaded altar tables and C17 pierced wooden rail with raised and fielded side pieces and pilastered principal posts. Poor C19 screens to side chapels. Two hatchments in north chapel, 1 in south chapel, and tilting helms in each, with pair of gloves in north chapel. Monuments. In the South Chapel: Sir Edward Monins, d.1602, and family, erected before 1642. Black and white marble wall plaque, with inscription on oval plaque wreathed with palms, with Corinthian columns supporting an interrupted segmental pediment with enriched bracketed sides and bracketed apron. The Hon. Peregrine and Susan Bertie, c.1697. Railed enclosure with twisted principals with spear finials, enclosing tomb chest with swagged side pieces with funerary symbols and achievements. Draped panels with Cherubim. Peregrine and Susan recline uncomfortably with hands clasped and legs crossed on the tomb. As Hasted remarked, the figures are "made all out of proportion and conspicuously absurd." The inscription hints at "barbarous and horrid murder." North Chapel: Sir Henry Furnese, d.1712. By Thomas Green of Camberwell (and signed), one of the outstanding statuaries of his time (Gunnis, p.179). This free standing monument of 4 kinds of marble fills the entire chapel. Square base with 4 life-size mourning women seated on chairs and inscriptions on each side. Raised centre on cross-plan, with 4 putti on pedestals holding torches and funerary sheets, the side panels with elaborate cartouches of arms. Top stage of urn on 4 large volutes enriched with cherubs'heads and acanthus leaves, with torch finial. Outstanding. (See BOE, Kent, II, 1983, pp. 486-7; see also R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851, p.179; see also Hasted, X, pp. 59-60).
Listing NGR: TR2903948084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429075
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1800), 59-60
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Kent II, (1983), 486-487
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953), 179
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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