SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE GALLEY HILL ROAD Church of All Saints TQ 67 SW 5/90 II* 2. 1894 R Norman Shaw Architect. Gothic style. Built of knapped flint with stone dressings. Nave, north aisle, chancel. Continuous tiled roof over nave, aisles and chancel, broken only by squat central tower. This has rectangular belfry windows. Above are battlements that rise towards the centre of the tower. Pyramidal shaped roof. Mullioned windows with pointed lights to north aisle. Five-light windows with Decorated tracery at east and west. Cross-shaped saddlestones to east and west gables. South gabled porch with cross-shaped saddlestones. Interior has Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style woodwork comprising pulpit reading desk, reredos and organ. (2) Additional bibliography. (3)

Second World War civil defence mutual assistance rendezvous point, Galley Hill, Swanscombe, Kent. Use of flint walled Victorian Church from late 1939. No other details known. The church remains, reused as private apartments. (4)

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<1> OS 1:1250 1977 (OS Card Reference). SKE48187.

<2> DOE(HHR)Boro of Dartford Kent Mar 1982 34 (OS Card Reference). SKE41230.

<3> Bldgs of Eng West Kent and the Weald 1980 562 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38095.

<4> Swanscombe Urban District Council, 29/11/1939, Minutes of the Emergency Committee (Bibliographic reference). SKE24138.