DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE

DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1344151
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:: DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE
Statutory Address:: DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1344151
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:: DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE
Statutory Address 1:: DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, HIGH STREET

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DETACHED BELFRY CIRCA 1 YARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Brookland
National Grid Reference:: TQ 98952 25822

Details

TQ 92 NE BROOKLAND HIGH STREET (south-east side)

5/36 Detached Belfry circa 1 yard north of Church 9.6.59 of St. Augustine

GV I

Detached belfry. Late C12 or C13, altered in mid C15, late C16 and 1685, and strengthened in second quarter C20 and 1973. Timber-framed, clad with wood shingles. Late C12 or C13 square open tower enclosed in mid C15 by octagonal structure with vertical base surmounted by 3 diminishing stages, base of each overhanging top of one below. Dragon weathervane dated 1797. Ribbed door to west. Interior: 4 huge canted tapering posts set at corners of square frame or cill and formerly bearing large bell platform. Strength- ened with lattice bracing; braces halved over each other and jointed to posts with open notched-lap joints. Posts truncated in mid C15 by about 5' and surrounded by octagonal frame with open arcaded base and tapering roof. 2 further octagonal frames erected above original tower to give total of 3 stages. New bell-frame constructed above, and floor inserted within, original tower, supported on four canted posts set inside of C12/C13 posts. Further bell-frame inserted in late C16 between floor and C15 bell-frame and enlarged 1685. Tower strengthened by cross-braces. Oak shingles applied 1936 and belfry strengthened. Further bracing 1973. A rare survival. Interior only partly inspected. (K.W.E. Gravett, "Brookland Belfry", Archaeologia Cantiana Vol.LXXXIX, 1974. Anne Roper, The Church of St Augustine, Brookland, 1982 edition).

Listing NGR: TQ9896825825

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 175494
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Roper, A, The Church of St Augustine Brookland, (1982)
'Archaeologia Cantiana' in Archaeologia Cantiana, , Vol. 89, (1974)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.