Listed Building: CHRIST CHURCH (1344004)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1607, 5, 91
Date assigned 24 January 1967
Date last amended

Description

TR 05 NE DUNKIRK BOUGHTON HILL (South side) 5/91 24.1.67 Christ Church GV II Parish Church. 1840.By John Whichcord. Flint with slate roof. Chancel, nave and west tower. Two stage western tower with diagonal buttresses, string course, cornice and parapet. Four centred arched western doorway with label over. Perpendicular style tracery in 3 windows each side of nave. Nave walls buttressed north and south. Advanced and accurate styling for its date. Interior restored late C20. Built after Courtenay riots of 1838 with flints from Canterbury City walls, the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Grouped with the vicarage and the school in a concerted effort to civilize the previously extra parochial and lawless Vill of Dunkirk. Listing NGR: TR0741458846

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 0748 5890 (point)
Map sheet TR05NE
Civil Parish DUNKIRK, SWALE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 6:00PM