Listed Building record TQ 64 NW 118 - GOLDEN GREEN MISSION CHURCH

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1894 to 1934

Location

Grid reference TQ 6376 4825 (point)
Map sheet TQ64NW
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish HADLOW, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HADLOW
TQ 64 NW THREE ELM LANE 1694/6/102 GOLDEN GREEN 19-FEB-90 Golden Green Mission Church
II
Church, also used as a community hall. Erected c1914 either as a new structure or reusing existing buiding from another site. Timber-framed, clad and roofed with corrugated iron, painted green. PLAN: Small chapel on east west axis comprising nave and chancel in the same block. North porch towards the west end. Later C20 kitchen and toilet block in matching materials to rear. EXTERIOR: Front has 3 windows with pointed arched heads containing timber Y- tracery. There is another each end and one more south of the chancel. Gabled porch with 2-centred outer arch containing a plain plank door. Roof is gable- ended. INTERIOR: Four bays. Lined with pine tongue-and-groove planking with plain pine trusses.with three tiers of purlins and ridgepiece and iron supports. HISTORY: Kelly's Directory of Kent of 1891 mentions the "iron church at Golden Green in connection with the parish church" but Golden Green Mission Church was not erected until after 1914 when the land was gifted to the vicar and churchwardens of Hadlow by the local landowner Mr Osim d'Avigdor Goldsmid of Somerhill for use as the site for a church. Since the mid 1970s it has also been used as a community hall.
Listing NGR: TQ6457348176


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM