Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MARY (1204270)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 190, 2, 12
Date assigned 25 August 1959
Date last amended

Description

TQ 65 NW PLATT CHURCH ROAD 2/12 (east side) 25.8.59 Church of St Mary GV II Anglican Church. 1841-42 by Whichcord and Walker. Early English in detail, though Perpendicular in form. Coursed rubble stone with some ashlar dressings, slate roofs. Cruciform church with crenellated west tower, nave, chancel and transeptal chapels. Octagonal stair-turret on north-east corner of tower. Door in moulded, columned opening in west face of tower with 3-light window above transepts and chancel gabled with parapet-copings. Three-light east window, 2-light transept windows, all with simple geometrical tracery. Three-bay nave with lancet windows. South door in centre of south transept and with moulded arched surround. Interior. Timber roof with very widely projecting hammer beams, decorated by large circles in the spandrels, dramatically crowding the crossing with flying arches. Listing NGR: TQ6220257039

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6223 5701 (point)
Map sheet TQ65NW
Civil Parish PLATT, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM