Listed Building record TR 26 SE 129 - ELMSTONE CHURCH (DEDICATION UNKNOWN)

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1100 to 1900 Summary from record TR 26 SE 38: Church, elmstone : listed building

Location

Grid reference TR 26148 60284 (point)
Map sheet TR26SE
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish PRESTON, DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 26 SE PRESTON ELMSTONE
2/181 Elmstone Church 11.10.63 (dedication unknown)
GV II*
Parish church. C12, remodelled and extended early C14, restored externally 1878 and generally 1900. Flint with plain tiled roof. Chancel, nave and north aisle, north-west tower and south porch. Two cell Romanesque church, small round headed lights on nave south and chancel north walls. Ogee headed lancets, paired ogee headed lights in north aisle. Restored 3 light Y- traceried west window, and east window. Buttresses to tower, chancel and north aisle. Interior: 3 bay north arcade, with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases. Westernmost arch (to tower) pinched, and repeated in north aisle. Nave and chancel with one (C19) roof. Lean-to aisle roof. Chancel stepped in, no chancel arch. Fittings: small square piscina in north aisle and piscina/water stoup by south door. Bench and reading desk in chancel, fashioned from late medieval bench ends with simple poppyheads. Font, C12 or C13, with Bethersden marble bowl, round at top, made square at base by anvil-shaped corner piers. Base of 5 simple shafts. All other fittings C19. Monuments: Robert Jaques, d.1671, a gentleman of Luton. Standing wall monument on white and black marble bench- like base. Voluted urn-shaped side pieces and bay-leaf pattern frieze with segmental pediment and draped cartouche. White marble inscription plaque with gold acanthus surround. Topped by portrait bust, antique-styled drapery. (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 313).
Listing NGR: TR2599160318

Description from record TR 26 SE 38:
Listed building : no additional information available


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Mar 2 2011 3:09PM