Bayham Leglise
BAYHAM LEGLISE, CLAY HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336704
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bayham Leglise
- Statutory Address:
- BAYHAM LEGLISE, CLAY HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336704
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bayham Leglise
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAYHAM LEGLISE, CLAY HILL 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:
- BAYHAM LEGLISE, CLAY HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 65110 36652
Details
LAMBERHURST CLAY HILL ROAD TQ 63 NE (west side) 3/145 Bayham L'Eglise 24.7.89 GV II
Church, now house. 1870 for Marquess Camden, by David Brandon, architect, extended c.1908 and converted 1985. Random coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof. Nave and chancel with south-east tower and south porch and north-east vestry. Plinth around whole building, with corner and occasional side buttresses (especially north nave wall) and parapet gables to nave and chancel with enriched cross finials. Tower broached to spire with full lucarne stage. Half-timbered porch on sandstone base, with glazed outer doors and moulded inner door in roll moulded doorway. Trecusped and paired lancets throughout, with shafted and grouped lancets to east and west windows with roundels and hood moulds over, the east window with inserted arched doorway. Simple mullioned windows to vestry. Main internal arches retained. Built as the Bayham estate church and an important element in the landscaped park to Bayham Abbey, the Marquess Camden's house, also by Brandon, and which also includes the remains of the medieval abbey (in East Sussex).
Listing NGR: TQ6511036652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169982
- 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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