Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1275459
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1275459
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wye with Hinxhill
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 04861 42619
Details
TR 04 SW WYE HINXHILL
3/268 Church of 27.11.57 St Mary (formerly listed under the parish of Hinxhill)
GV I
Parish church. C13, C14 north chapel and aisle spire rebuilt 1797 general restoration 1881. Ragstone with red brick porch and buttresses. Plain tiled roof and shingled spire. Chancel with north chapel, nave and north aisle, western tower and south porch. Single stage tower with large offset diagonal buttresses, and with broach spire. Shallow roll mould to west door. Irregularly bonded C17 brick south porch (now vestry). Perpendicular fenestration to nave (some C19 restoration) and ogee headed C14 windows to chancel, chapel and north aisle, with lancet windows to east and west ends of both chancel and aisle/chapel (re-used from C13). Interior: simple C12 tower arch on imposts. Three bay north arcade with round piers and octagonal capitals and octagonal responds. Restored tie- beam roof and lean-to roof to aisle. Wooden chancel arch/screen erected (and dated) 1637, with enriched bowed arched braces and traceried upper section. Wooden arches to north aisle/north chapel in similar vein but of c.1881. Chancel with roof of 2 crown posts. Fittings: C13 sedile and trecusped piscina in chancel and ogee headed piscina or aumbrey in north chapel east wall. C19 altar rail reredos font and lecturn. C16 Perpendicular panelling used as wainscotting in chancel and incorporated into reading desk and pulpit (n.b. benches dated 1834). Fragment of C17 painted glass in vestry. Brass inscription in nave to Robert Gateley, d.1514. Monument: Robert Edolph, erected 1632. Large standing alabaster monument. Black Corinthian columns support a broken segmental pediment with 3 arms cartouches over lifesize figures of Edolph and his Lady kneeling at a prayer desk with double arcaded background. Paired skulls below to either side of inscription and verses. Charity board in tower, with cornice on pilasters, recording the gifts of Martha Wade, 1825. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 352).
Listing NGR: TR0543142993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411819
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 352
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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