Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344171
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344171
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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 PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monks Horton
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 12346 40536
Details
TR 14 SW MONKS HORTON
1/27 Church of St. Peter 29.12.66 GV II*
Parish church. C13 and C14, restored 1847. Flint and stone, with stone dressings. Plain tile roof. Nave and chancel, with north vestry. limber west belfry removed 1847. Nave: C13. No plinth. Two west and one south buttress. C19 flint and stone west bell-cote. C19 west lancet with hoodmould. Two C19 lancets, and one C19 2-light window to south. Unchamfered pointed-arched west doorway. Right jamb of blocked doorway towards centre of south side, possibly of re-used stone, with fragments of 3 scratch dials. Chancel: C13. South buttress. Two C19 south lancets, two rebated east lancets, and one north lancet. Vestry: C19. Flint stack to east. Two north lancets. West doorway with Caernavon arch. Nave, north elevation: one buttress. Stumps of 6 stone rood-loft stairs projecting from wall towards east end. One C19 lancet and one C19 two-light window. Blocked chamfered pointed-arched doorway towards centre. Interior: Structure: doubly hollow-chamfered, probably C14, chancel arch dying into wall. Blocked rebated rectangular stone doorway to rood-loft stairs. Roof: moulded octagonal crown - posts to nave, on chamfered tie-beams. Sous-laces and ashlar-pieces. Common- rafter roof to chancel, with sous-laces and ashlar-pieces. Decoration: fragments of C15 stained glass to north-west window of nave. Armour: funerary helm with crest of arm holding pistol; probably for George Rooke, d.1649, but assembled from earlier pieces. (R. Leadbetter, unpublished Church Guide, 1984) (J. Newman, B.O.E. Series, North-East and East Kent, 1976).
Listing NGR: TR1212940076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175603
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1976)
Leadbetter, R, Church Guide, (1984)
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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