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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1200 to 1709. From AD 798 the estate of Northfleet, with lands for grazing and pannage in Aylesford

Common, was a possession of the archbishops of Canterbury. By the mid-tenth century there was a stone church on the same hilltop site where the parish church of St Botolph still stands. It consisted of a rectangular nave and a small square chancel. The surviving south-west corner of the nave is built of long-and-short quoining, a feature of mid-tenth century Saxon architecture. Most of the architexture is early 14th century with some 13th century and earlier work, except the tower which was rebuilt after a collapse in 1717.

Monument Types

• CHURCH (Medieval to Modern - 1200 AD to 2050 AD)

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Description from record TQ 67 SW 55:
[TQ 62357413] St. Botolph's Church [T.U.] (1) This is mainly 14th c. with traces of older work and some 15th c. windows. The tower was rebuilt in 1718. (2) In normal use. (3) Parish Church of St. Botolph. Grade I. Early 14th century with some 13th century and earlier work, except tower which was rebuilt after collapse in 1717. Walls original flintwork. Tiled roof. Window tracery renewed in its typical Kent patterns in 1852. (4) Additional bibliography. (5-8)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 67 SW NORTHFLEET THE HILL 1/124 4.7.52 Parish Church of St Botolph
I
Early C14 with some C13 and earlier work, except tower which was rebuilt after collapse in 1717. Walls original flintwork. Tiled roof. Window tracery renewed in its typical Kent patterns in 1852 by Brandon and Ritchie. Good wall monument to Richard and Esther Crich of 1709.
Listing NGR: TQ6246874136 (11)

Archive material: BL01844 An exterior view from the south-east of St Botolph's Church This mainly 14th century parish church has some earlier work dating from the 13th century and a tower which was rebuilt in 1717 after it collapsed. In the Bedford Lemere daybook the church is recorded as having restoration carried out by Sir G G Scott.

<1> O.S. 1/2500 1954 (OS Card Reference). SKE47780.

<2> M.H.L.G. (1460/11/A, Dec. 1951) 2 (OS Card Reference). SKE46241.

<3> F1 ASP 14-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42109.

<4> DOE (HHR) Bor of Gravesham 1983 40 (OS Card Reference). SKE39801.

<5> AS Architecture 1 1965 463 (HM Taylor and J Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE37379.

<6> Dart Dist Antiq Soc 1 1931 16 (CGT Colson) (OS Card Reference). SKE39614.

<7> Arch Cant 43 1931 318 (CGT Colson) (OS Card Reference). SKE35126.

<8> Arch Ael 3 xl 1914 22 (JF Hodgson) (OS Card Reference). SKE34470.

<9> Field report for monument TQ 67 SW 55 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3682.

<10> Diocese of Rochester (Hugh Richmond), 2000, Northfleet, St Botolph: Diocesan church survey (Unpublished document). SKE29451.

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

Sources and further reading

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• Anglo-Saxon Kent (Period Overview)