Tilden Baptist Chapel

TILDEN BAPTIST CHAPEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366289
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1980
List Entry Name:
Tilden Baptist Chapel
Statutory Address:
TILDEN BAPTIST CHAPEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366289
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1980
List Entry Name:
Tilden Baptist Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
TILDEN BAPTIST CHAPEL

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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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
TILDEN BAPTIST CHAPEL

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

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Smarden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 87334 41160

Details

Q 8741 30/116

SMARDEN
TILDEN
Tilden Baptist Chapel

GII
Dated 1892,but a rebuilding of an earlier chapel.Inscription:"This was the gift of James Tilden of High Halden in Kent,Yeoman and was built in the year 1726.Rebuilt 1892".One storey red brick.Gable end.Gabled porch bearing inscription.Brick pilasters run the whole height of the building.Baptistery with tiled roof.Included for historical interest.The cemetery has some C18 table tombs,some double headstones and some headstones with cherub or skull motif.

Listing NGR: TQ8733441160

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Legacy System number:
181278
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.

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