Listed Building: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (1070519)
| Grade | I | 
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| Authority | |
| Volume/Map/Item | 1347, 3, 109 | 
| Date assigned | 25 August 1959 | 
| Date last amended | 
Description
                            BIRLING CP                 HIGH STREET TQ 66 SE                                                    (south side) 3/109 25.8.59                                            Church of All Saints
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Church.  Early C14, C15 and C16, refitted c1828.  Random and dressed ragstone. West tower, nave, north and south aisles and chancel.  3 stage tower separated by bands, embattled with taller pyramidal-capped octagonal south-east stair turret. Stepped diagonal buttresses.   Paired lancet belfry openings in square-headed panels, single light window below.  Large 2-light arched perpendicular window below over moulded pointed arched west doorway in square-headed panel.   Nave obscured by aisles, both eccentric mixture of C15 and C16 windows.   Chancel rebuilt in C16 again with eccentric mixture of windows.  6-light east windows. Interior: 3-bay nave with hollow chamfered arches on octagonal piers.  Wooden trusses to plastered nave barrel vault.  No chancel arch.  Fittings: Wood font cover in neo-Gothic style, 4 tiers, 1853.  Stained glass of 1840's in east window. 2 C16 tilting helms with Jacobean crests.  2 poppy-heads on bench ends.  Brass of civilian, Walter Mylys, d. 1522.  Chancel fittings, c.1828 in minimal neo-Gothic style.
Listing NGR: TQ6767861234
                        
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
| Grid reference | TQ 6801 6060 (point) | 
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| Map sheet | TQ66SE | 
| Civil Parish | BIRLING, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT | 
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Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 11:31AM