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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1100 to 1936. C12th-C14th; restored 1877 and 1936

Monument Types

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

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Description from record TR 04 SW 16 :
(TR 03704087) St Mary's Church (NAT) (1) 15/1 Church of St Mary, Sevington. Grade B. Parish Church. Chancel with South Chapel, Nave with South Aisle, South Porch and West Tower with broached shingled spire. C13 with later ws., the South Porch timber-framed, the South Chapel early C16. (2) In normal use. (3) St Mary, the nave must be Norman in its walling as the east arch to the narrow, windowless south aisle has a round head. A second, pointed arch shows the aisle was extended towards the west, circa 1200. (4)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 04 SW MERSHAM SEVINGTON
3/144 Church of St. 27.11.57 Mary (formerly listed under the parish of Sevington)
GV I
Parish church. C12, extended C13 and C14, restored 1877 and 1936. Ragstone with plain tiled roof, with timber framed porch and shingled spire. Chancel and south chapel, nave and south aisle with south porch, western tower. Two stage tower with double offset corner buttresses. Broach spire. Lancet west window and belfry openings and restored hollow chamfered and roll moulded west doorway. Nave and aisle with single catslide roof, with lancet windows and C15 label headed Perpendi- cular windows to north nave. C16 coupled lancet windows to south chapel, with separate gabled roof. Lancets to chancel (chancel eastern bay extended eastwards note lack of galleting). Simple timber south porch with wave-chamfered south door with stoup (or earlier C12 opening). Interior: double chamfered C14 tower arch on half-octagonal responds with crude head capitals. Simple pointed western and round-headed eastern openings to south aisle. Trussed rafter and tie-beam nave roof and lean-to aisle roof Chancel stepped in, with blocked round- headed, window to south-west, with low double hollow chamfered arch to southern chapel. Eastern lancets originally with shafts (the capitals survive). Clasped purlin roof with moulded tie-beams. South chapel with door and steps to rood loft (the loft fbor falling into nave). Fittings: simple chamfered sedile and triple chamfered piscina in chancel and simple piscina in chapel. Tomb recess in south chapel, and recess in north nave wall. Octagonal font on 5 piers with C19 cover. C19 altar rails, pulpit and reading desk. Stained glass: C14 fragments in nave north-west window. Monuments: simple white and black aedicule in chapel to Lawrence Banks, d.1830, signed Andrews, Ashford. Lugged charity board in tower dated 1774. Royal Arms, early C19, in nave. (See B.O.E. Went I 1983, 519).
Listing NGR: TR0476039251 (6)

<1> OS 6" 1962 (OS Card Reference). SKE48371.

<2> MHLG 1186/11/A East Ashford RD Kent July 1955 50 (OS Card Reference). SKE47069.

<3> F1 CFW 09-MAY-1963 (OS Card Reference). SKE42499.

<4> Bldgs of Eng 1980 W Kent & the Weald 519 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37712.

<5> Field report for monument TR 04 SW 16 - May, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5183.

<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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