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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1300 to 1889. Nave and chancel with south aisle to both and crenellated West tower with flint and stone buttresses. South porch. 15th century windows and 14th century roof. The church incorporates some Anglo-Saxon herring-bone masonry. The tower probably dates from circa 1325, the south arcade has typical 14th century form and the rood is early 14th century. Restored by W L Grant in 1889.Milton Regis was one of the early minsters founded in Kent before 700. The Domesday Monachorum records that Milton Regis had 10 dependent churches. Tatton-Brown suggests that the early church may have been cruciform, traces of a 13th century transept still surviving.

Monument Types

• ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• MINSTER? (CHURCH, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 600 AD to 1065 AD)
• CHURCH (Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD to 2050 AD)

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Description from record TQ 96 NW 1:
[TQ 90886540] Holy Trinity Church (NAT) (1) Holy Trinity Church, Milton Regis, is mainly 14th c. but there are traces of Roman material and early herring-bone masonry which are almost certainly pre-Norman. [See TQ 96 NW 8, for probable source of Roman material]. (2) In normal use. (3) TQ 96 NW 7/59 Parish Church of the Holy Trinity 10 9 51 Grade B. C14. Restored by W L Grant in 1889. Flint-faced with stone quoins, window dressings and buttresses. Nave and chancel with south aisle to both and crenellated West tower with flint and stone buttresses. South porch. C15 windows. C14 roof. Piscina and sedilia. C14 octagonal font. (4) Holy Trinity Church, Milton Regis is of flint and ragstone, attractively textured outside and it incorporates some Anglo-Saxon herring-bone masonry. The tower probably dates from c.1325, the south arcard has typical 14th century form and the road is early 14th century. (5) TQ 909654. Holy Trinity, Milton Regis. There is little now surviving in the fabric of the church to fix any part of it with certainly as a survival from before the Conquest, but the north walls of the nave and chancel are clearly of some antiquity. They are of big brown uncut flints and occasional Roman tiles, laid in rather random fashion, but with some herringbone courses. The whole of an originally aisleless nave and chancel remains, with a wide aisle added later on the south, a vestry on the north of the chancel, and a very large west tower about 25 feet internally (6,7). Additional reference (8).

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

SITTINGBOURNE
NORTH STREET (North West Side) MILTON REGIS PARISH CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
TQ 96 NW 7/59 10.9.51
I
C14. Restored by W L Grant in 1880. Flint-faced with stone quoins, window dressings and buttresses. Nave and chancel with south aisle to both and crenellated West tower with flint and stone buttresses. South porch. C15 windows. C14 roof. Piscina and sedilia. C14 octagonal font.
Listing NGR: TQ9059965246 (9)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Kent 1935 222 (J C Cox) (OS Card Reference). SKE45677.

<3> F1 AC 09-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41779.

<4> DOE(HHR) Swale Dist Kent (Sittingbourne & Milton Area) 1974 35 (OS Card Reference). SKE41197.

<5> Bldgs of Eng NE & E Kent 1983 389-90 (J Newman ed N Pevsner) (OS Card Reference). SKE37767.

<6> AS Architecture 2 1965 (H M Taylor & J Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE37380.

<7> Arch Cant 23 1898 157-60 (F Grayling) (OS Card Reference). SKE34855.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 96 NW 1 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4859.

<9> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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