Listed Building record TQ 65 NW 170 - CHURCH OF ST MARY

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1841 to 1842

Location

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

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


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