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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1100 to 1872. St Mary's at Norton is a 12th century church with 13th century additions to nave, chancel and tower. The top of the tower was rebuilt in the 18th century and some restoration work done in the 19th century. The church is mainly flint built, with tufa quoins, red brick buttresses and a plain tiled roof.

Monument Types

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

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 96 SE NORTON AND BUCKLAND
1/51 Church of St. Mary 24.1.67 I
Parish church. C12 to C14. Tower repaired C18, restored and porch added 1872. Flint, in part rendered, with tufa quoins, red brick buttresses and plain tiled roof. Chancel, nave, west tower and south porch. Tower with brick buttresses, keyed brick belfry lights and battlements. Overlapping plank door with strap-hinges with veined decoration in chamfered doorways and C14 timbered porch. C14 trefoil headed lancet windows with ogee surrounds and partly restored C13 triple lancet windows with ogee doorway. Interior: Nave and chancel roofed as one with scissor braced roof. C19 cruck-type wooden chancel arch. Reveals of blocked C13 and C12 lancets in nave and chancel. Chancel east window with triple headed but continuous drip mould. C19 altar rail and fittings. Monuments: in Chancel, Baptist Piggot, d.1677. Grey Marble wall plaque, with scrolled and garlanded sides, on base with consoles and swags. Scrolled pediment over with cartouche. Benjamin Godfrey, d.1704 (son- in-law of Baptist Piggot) wall tablet. Urn at top with gar- lands, on plinth, with plaque below supported by weeping putti either side. Gadrooned base to plaque on coved cornice on foliated consoles. Below, the inscription on a cloth, gathered up and hung from erupting palm fronds. Later inscription to Reverend William Lushington (d.1842) on upper plaque. In the nave: Right Hon. Mary Elizabeth Lady Sondes, d.1818, by Jonathan Seward. White wall plaque, a robed woman rising through clouds to blazing sun, directed by winged angels, with Hebrew characters and various symbols - apple tree, flaming torch, bag of gold, eagle, deaths head and cornucopia. George Finch, d.1584. White hanging monument. Gadrooned and fluted surround to inscription on coved and gadrooned base. Corinthian columns carry frieze, modillion eaves cornice and achievement. Charles Tassel, d.1763. White and yellow wall plaque, with scrolled and garlanded sides with triple projecting cornice and base with winged head. (See BOE Kent II 1983, 408)
Listing NGR: TQ9701860488

Description from record TQ 96 SE 29:
[TQ 9678 6109] St. Mary's Church [NAT] (1) Norton Church, St. Mary, consists of nave and west tower, and is of Norman origin. The north doorway is of that period. The chancel, tower and south doorway are Early English. There is a fine 13th century chest with incised patterns on the front. (2) [Brief architectural description.] (3) The church is in normal use. GP/AO/59/198/3 from S.W. (4) Checked and correct. (5) Church of St. Mary, Grade B. Chancel, nave, south porch and west tower. The north doorway is Norman. Otherwise the chancel, nave and tower are 13th century, except that the top of the tower was rebuilt in the 18th century. The porch was added in 1872, when the church was restored. In the churchyard are three large yew trees, one to the north and two to the south of the church. (6) Parish Church. C12 to C14. Tower repaired C18, restored and porch added 1872. Flint, in part rendered, with tufa quoins, red brick buttresses and plain tiled roof. Chancel, nave, west tower and south porch. [Full architectural description] UPGRADED TO GRADE I. (7)

Formerly TQ 96 SE 29

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

<1> OS 6" 1938-48 (OS Card Reference). SKE48355.

<2> Kent Little Guide 1935 6th Edition 232-33 (J C Cox) (OS Card Reference). SKE45917.

<3> Notes on Churches of Kent 1877 195 (S R Glynne) (OS Card Reference). SKE47694.

<4> F1 ASP 10-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42033.

<5> F2 CFW 23-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE43273.

<6> DOE (HHR) Kent Boro of Swale Nov 1960 68 (OS Card Reference). SKE40584.

<7> DOE(HHR)Borough of Swale, Kent. 23 (28.8.86) (OS Card Reference). SKE41248.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 96 SE 29 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4920.

<9> Field report for monument TQ 96 SE 29 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4921.

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