Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH (1204440)

Grade I
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1797, 6, 68
Date assigned 21 November 1966
Date last amended

Description

HOO ST WERBURGH CP CHURCH STREET TQ 77 SE 6/68 South side 21.11.66 Church of St Werburgh - I Parish church. C12-C15. Ragstone with tiled roofs. West tower with shingled spire, nave with north and south aisles, north and south porches and chancel. West tower battlemented with north- west turret and shingled spire, all clasped by the aisles. Norman pilaster buttresses with tufa dressings visible over aisle roofs. C14 windows in aisles with cusped intersecting tracery. Interior: C13 nave arcades of 3 bays with round piers and double chamfered arches. Blocked east arch in each aisle of former transeptal chapels. C15 clerestorey. C14 chancel arch. Nave roof on wooden shafts with carved angels in capital-zone. Piscina and triple sedilia with multi-cusped arches on long shafts of Bethersden marble. Fittings: C15 glass in chancel window-heads. Chest tomb to Edward Lake, d. 1845. Ogee canopy with pinnacles, not unarchaeologically early C15. Listing NGR: TQ7836972092

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7834 7185 (point)
Map sheet TQ77SE
Civil Parish HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM