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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1100 to 1870. A 12th and 14th century parish church with some 15th century fenestration. The church has had very little restoration work carried out. The downpipes are dated to 1870. the church is constructed of coursed rubble and flint with plain tiled roof.The church comprises chancel, nave with aisles, north-western tower and south porch.

Monument Types

• CHURCH (Medieval to Modern - 1100 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 06 SE 4:
[TR 0526 6268] All Saints' Church [NAT] (1) Graveney Church is a square church - the nave is flanked by aisles, the chancel, by chapels. The chancel arch is Norman and the rood screen, Perpendicular. The windows are Decorated on the south side, and Perpendicular on the north side and at the east end. The chancel window takes the place of a larger older one, probably contemporary with those in the south wall, and the arched stones and hood remain. The church is built of flint and stones, and the buttresses are patched with brickwork. The square tower is lighted with narrow lancet windows at each stage. The nave pillars are Early English, there are three arches on the north side and four on the south. (Fullarchitectural description follows.] (2) [Photograph of 14th century window east wall south aisle, and 15th century light alongside in chancel south wall.] (3) The church is at present in normal use. The chancel has no side chapels (Authority 2 refers). The tower is on the north side of the nave and there is a south porch. GP/AO/59/189/4 from S.E. (4) Checked and correct. (5) All Saints' Church, Graveney is a rarity in Kent. It is delightfully unrestored, worthwhile as architecture and contains beautiful objects.It is built of attractive materials - flint and rubble stone, with rosy tiles on the roof. The early 14th century is the dominant periodfor the exterior. Inside, the 12th century is the earliest century represented - in the chancel arch. (6) Parish Church of All Saints', Grade I, Seasalter Road (west side). 12th and 14th century with some 15th century fenestration. Little restored but downpipes dated 1870. Headstone to Thomas Barman in the churchyard south east of the Church of All Saints', Grade II. Thomas Barman, died 1758. (For full descriptions see list.) (7) Formerly TR 06 SE 4 (10)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 06 SE GRAVENEY SEASALTER ROAD (West side)
3/113 Church of All Saints 24.1.67 I Parish Church. C12 and C14 with some C15 fenestration. Little restored, but downpipes dated 1870. Coursed rubble and flint with plain tiled roof. Chancel, nave with aisles, north-western tower and south porch. Tower with string course and battlements, lancets in four stages and quatrofoil at the top. Circular north-eastern stair-turret. Roll moulded and hollow chamfered west doorway. South aisle with offset diagonal buttresses and parapet. C14 Decorated tracery, of cusped paired lights with quatrefoils over, and 3 light aisle east window withcusped and foiled tracery and segmental hood. South porch extended in brick and pebbledashed, with moulded and chamfered south doorway. Chancel with cusped C14 lancets to south, restored C13 lancets to north, and 3 light C15 Perpendicular east window within the larger blocked jambs and drip mould of C14 east window. North aisle with 5 buttresses. Perpendicular 2 light windows, and simple chamfered north door- way. Interior: C14 nave arcades; 3 bays to the north with the tower as end bay, and 4 bays to south. Octagonal piers on seat-plinths with moulded capitals, those to south richer; hollow chamfered and wave-moulded south arcade, double chamfered north arcade. Roof of 5 crown posts, with moulded collar beams and side purlins, and solid spandrels to raised tie beams. Lean-to aisle roofs. Romanesque chancel arch on imposts, the piers cut away and corbelled. Interior jambs and drip mould of C14 east window survive around C15 insertion, the respond carried down to floor level. Braced truss and tie beam roof-with embattled wall plate. Fittings: chancel; cinquefoil headedpiscina, double and single sedilia, the larger to east with colonnettes with moulded octagonal bases and capitals, the smaller with cinquefoiled head. Four centred arch and embattled label over both. Two C15 benches with poppy- heads, one with 6 pierced and cusped panels, the other with 3 pierced panels. Screen: early C16, 5 bays with attached shafts with Tudor flower motif on base with traceried panels and shields. Embattled transom running into tracery pattern, Central frieze with decorative motifs showing Renaissance influence. C19 embattled top beam. Nave: pulpit, late C17 on C19 base, taken from Faversham parish church. Pentagonal with enriched bolection moulded panels with festoons over and ribboned festoons along arrises of each panel. Moulded cornice, and 3 semi-circular steps to rear. Box pews, extended into south aisle and incorporating late medieval benches with poppy heads and hollow chamfered end moulding. South aisle: cusped piscina with ogee head and animal head finial. Tomb recess with segmental arch, embattled cornice and attached shafts, with tomb chest and brass, 24" of Richard de Feversham, d.1381, C15 font, hollow octagonal bowl with decorated panels. C13 parish chest, wooden, with incised trefoil-headed arcade, and cross-hatched decorated iron flanges on lid. North aisle: cusped ogee headed piscina; recess cut out of north-east corner. Some medieval floor tiles. Brasses: mutilated examples in south aisle. Joan de Feverham and son, d.1360, 14" half figures. Judge John Martyn, d.1436. 56" figures of Justice of Common Pleas and his wife under double canopy. He holds an inscribed heart, she has a lap dog at her feet. Glass: C14 fragments in north aisle east window, C15 fragments in chancel south-west window (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983 337-8). Listing NGR: TR0519062470 (11)

<1> OS 6" 1906-38 (OS Card Reference). SKE48316.

<2> A Saunter through Kent II 1914 59-65 (C Igglesden) (OS Card Reference). SKE32902.

<3> Kent Churches 1954 96 (H R P Boorman and V J Torr) (OS Card Reference). SKE45910.

<4> F1 ASP 07-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE41981.

<5> F2 ASP 02-AUG-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE43074.

<6> The Buildings of England (ed N Pevsner) NE and E Kent 1983 336-338 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50169.

<7> DOE (HHR) Swale Boro Kent May 1986 43 44 (OS Card Reference). SKE40631.

<8> Field report for monument TR 06 SE 4 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5265.

<9> Field report for monument TR 06 SE 4 - August, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5266.

<10> Diocese of Canterbury (Tim Tatton-Brown), 1994, Graveney, All Saints:Diocesan church survey (Unpublished document). SKE29625.

<11> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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