Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WOOTTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363381
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WOOTTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363381
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WOOTTON LANE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WOOTTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denton with Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 22507 46547
Details
TR 24 NW DENTON AND WOOTTON WOOTTON LANE (north side) 1/63 Church of St. 22.8.62 Martin GV II* Parish church. Early C13 with C12 evidence and with C14 alterations and restored 1878-9 by Withers and 1881. Flint and rubble with some brick repairs and with plain tiled roof. Chancel with northern vestry, nave and west tower. Two stage tower with string course to parapet with large offset buttress on north-west corner, Angle buttresses to nave. Lancets throughout, some restored, with C19 east window and C15 lancet in vestry, which is possibly remains of C15 chapel;south and north doorways with sunk quadrant moulding, north door blocked, south in 1878 porch with moulded blind arcaded woodwork on flint base. Interior: round headed reveal to tower lancet. Simple pointed tower arch, and widened chancel arch of similar pattern. Roof of 3 crown posts. Chancel roof C19 wooden waggon vault. Fittings: shelved piscina and window-seat style sedile in chancel, chamfered piscina in nave. Alabaster reredos of 1881 (as in window glass), main relief of pelican piety. Octagonal pulpit with C17 linenfold panels. C18 prayer boards to left and right of chancel arch. Monuments: 2 black and white wall plaques, to Sir John Brydges, dl839, and Rev. Charles Kinleside, d.1811, both with draped urns over sarcophagus-shaped plaques, different treatment of similar theme by same artist, T. Denman of Regent Street, London, brother-in-law of Flaxman and inheritor of his business and commissions. (See BOE Kent II 1983, p503; see also R. Gunnis).
Listing NGR: TR2227446220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 503
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953)
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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