St Mary's Abbey, Chapterhouse and Library

Chapterhouse and Library, St Mary's Abbey:, Swan Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1291520
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:: St Mary's Abbey, Chapterhouse and Library
Statutory Address:: Chapterhouse and Library, St Mary's Abbey:, Swan Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1291520
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: St Mary's Abbey, Chapterhouse and Library
Statutory Address 1:: Chapterhouse and Library, St Mary's Abbey:, Swan Street

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Chapterhouse and Library, St Mary's Abbey:, Swan Street

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County:: Kent
District:: Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:: West Malling
National Grid Reference:: TQ 68291 57677

Details

TQ6857 1156-0/3/160

WEST MALLING SWAN STREET St Mary's Abbey: Chapterhouse and Library (Formerly Listed as: SWAN STREET, St Mary's Abbey)

25/08/59 GV I Chapterhouse and library. Norman and C14 with C19 roof, restored C20. Built of stone rubble with corner buttresses. East end has two stone arched windows. North front has a blocked-in arch. West front has C20 bellcote, blocked-in round-headed arch with three small pointed arched windows, one within it. Ground floor has round-headed arched doorway with fragment of zigzag moulding as keystone, and blocked round-headed doorway. The library has a four-centred arched door with mottoes in spandrels and roof with unusual C19 roof of arched brace type.

Listing NGR: TQ6829257677

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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.