Church of St John the Divine
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, RAILWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268218
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, RAILWAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268218
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, RAILWAY STREET
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 JOHN THE DIVINE, RAILWAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75632 67820
Details
CHATHAM
TQ7567NE RAILWAY STREET 762-1/4/29 (North West side) 29/10/52 Church of St John the Divine
II*
Church. 1820-21 by Sir Robert Smirke, 1863 apse by GM Hills. Rock-faced limestone ashlar and dressings and a hipped slate roof. STYLE: Italianate. PLAN: rectangular with recessed corners and a W tower. EXTERIOR: projecting square apse has clasping paired pilasters, entablature and pediment, with a moulded round-arched window containing a Venetian window with 5 oculi following the arch. Plain plinth, plat band, first-floor sill and impost bands carried over the windows, cornice and parapet; cambered heads to ground floor and round-arched heads to first-floor windows, blind windows each side of the apse. 8-bay N side, the W bay set back. 3-bay W end with the middle set forward with a doorway with plain architrave and cornice to a 2-leaf 6-panel door with flush panels; plain doorways to outer bays, and round-arched upper windows, with a plain square 2-stage tower with a clock to the lower one, and round-arched louvred windows to the ashlar upper stage, with a blocking course. 8-bay N side has a central porch with pilasters to an entablature, and double panelled doors. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having galleried sides and end on fluted Doric columns and a moulded front, 2-centre chancel arch on corbels, flanked by painted flat buttresses, and a panelled ceiling. E window 1868 by Alexander Gibbs. HISTORY: built as a Commissioners church. (The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976-: 201; NMR: photograph: London).
Listing NGR: TQ7563267820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1976), 201
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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