RAMSGATE VALE SQUARE TR 3764 NE (west side) 12/402 Christ Church GV II Parish church. 1846-7 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Ragstone with slate roof and shingled spire. Nave with aisles, chancel with south chapel and north-eastern tower in Early English style. Continuous plinth with buttresses throughout. Three stage tower with corner buttresses and broach spire and with quatrefoil openings with clockface over. Paired lancets, some to nave with quatrefoils over. North, west and south gabled porches with hood-moulded arched doorways. Interior: high and broad, nave arcade of 4 bays with double chamfered arches on round piers, with roof of 3 crown posts. North aisle blocked and rendered with boarded central doorway, and double arched plank and stud door to west, and converted to vestry and parish rooms. Double chamfered chancel arch. Trussed rafter roofs to aisles, also with double chamfered arches to chapel and ground floor of tower. Chancel double chamfered arches to north and, on hollow chamfered octagonal responds, to south. Trussed rafter roofs throughout. Shafted and moulded reveals to chancel lancets. Fittings: trefoil headed arcaded reredos, the central 5 bays with triangular heads. Trefoil arcaded altar rails. Brass lecturn dated 1885. Pulpit, the base at least dated 1922, with stone coved base, arcaded sides and rail and marble colonettes and hand rail. Some mid C19 furnishings. Original tiled floors. The church was part of James Creed Eddel's scheme to develop Vale Square, the builders/developer was William Saxby, see item 12/389. (See Busson, Ramsgate, 127 to 128; B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 425). Listing NGR: TR3768364689