Listed Building: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (1070519)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6801 6060 (point)
Map sheet TQ66SE
Civil Parish BIRLING, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM