Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1298996
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1298996
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1980
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Canterbury (District Authority)
Parish:
Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne
National Grid Reference:
TR 19511 55469

Details

1. 5273 BEKESBOURNE SCHOOL LANE

Church of St Peter (formerly listed under Adisham Road) TR 15 NE 9/120 30.1.67

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2. Built of flint with stone dressings. Chancel, nave and west tower in 2 stages with crenellated parapet. The nave and tower are C12, the chancel C13. Round-arched Norman doorway with zigzag mouldings and crude heads carved on responds. Transept dated 1715, with south wall faced with mathematical tiles. The church was greatly restored in 1881-90. Monuments including Sir Henry Palmer deceased 1611. The churchyard contains C18 skull, cherub, hourglass and spade and mattock motif headstones, chest tombs and oval bodystones.

Listing NGR: TR1948255681

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
170974
Legacy System:
LBS

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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