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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 600 to 1979. Saxon church with late 12th century and 14th-15th century alterations. Later alterations were carried out in the late 17th/18th century and the early 19th century. Part of the east wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 19th century. The church was restored in 1845. It is constructed of flint, stone rubble and brick with a tile roof. In 1987 the church was redundant

Monument Types

• CHURCH (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon to Modern - 600 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 26 SE 1:
[TR 2561 6288] All Saints' Church [NAT] (1) The Church of All Saints, Stourmouth, contains late Saxon (c. 1000 or earlier), late 12th century, early 13th century, 14th and 15th centuryand post-Reformation work. (2)(3) In normal use. (4) The present church consists of a nave 45ft. 6 inches by 17ft. 3 inches, a south aisle of the same length and about 9ft. 4 inches in width "excluding the arcade in both instances"; a somewhat shorter and narrower north aisle whose width decreases a good deal from east to west; and an aisleless chancel, 24ft. 6 inches long from the west of the chancel arch to the east wall by 14ft. 9 inches broad. The original aisleless nave may be late Saxon c. 1000 A.D. or earlier. (2) These are rough non-Caen stone quoins. Over the nave are the remains of a four-bay King-post roof "perhaps late 13th century in date" and inserted through the roof at the west end of the nave is a c. 14th century timber belfry. The chancel appears to date from c. 1200 and has a pair of lancets on either side. The east wall of the chancel and its buttresses and north and south returns, was completely rebuilt in the 19th century. The roof is largely 19th century. The north aisle probably dates from the 14th century, but contains the remains of 15th century windows. The top of the north aisle was cut down in the late 17th or 18th century to leave a low shed with a vestry at the west end; two dormers were added in the early 19th century. The west wall of the north aisle incorporated a 13th century buttress. Restoration work began on the south aisle in 1982 and concentrated on the roof. (5) Excavation work took place within the church in 1985 and it was possible to produce a plan showing the different phases of building construction (see Illustration card No 1). (6) Description of the church. The church is enclosed by an extensive earthwork. (7) The church is Listed Grade I. (8)

Description from record TR 26 SE 87:
Listed building : no additional information available

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 26 SE STOURMOUTH WEST STOURMOUTH
(East Side) 2/260 Church of All 11.10.63 Saints
GV I
Parish church, now redundant. Main fabric Saxon, altered late C12 with C14 and C15 fenestration. Restored and re-seated 1845. Flint and rubble stone repaired with red brick with plain tiled roof, and weather boarded tower with shingled spire. Chancel, nave and aisles, western tower and south porch. West tower with 2 massive offset C17 brick buttresses, enclosing a boarded door and porch, with C15 2 light window and roundel over. South aisle with brick parapet, 3 two-light ogee headed C14 windows, and gabled south porch with hollow chamfered doorway and strap-hinged door standing proud of door- way. Corner buttresses. Chancel with C19 rebuilt east wall and Decorated style east window, 2 lancets to south, 1 to north, and offset diagonal buttresses. Lower half of north aisle only survives, with brick buttresses and 2 hipped dormers. Interior: 3 western bays of nave consist of timber framed trusses. North arcade of 2 simple chamfered arches on plain abaci cut through wall. South arcade of 4 chamfered arches on 2 octagonal and 1 round pier, with crockets and upright leaves, some oak leaf-enrichment, and spurred and moulded bases, all based on late C12 work at Christ Church, Canterbury. Blocked double-splayed pre-Conquest window high on north wall. Roof of 3 crown posts, one renewed C20. Lean-to north aisle, cross-beamed south aisle roof. Chamfered chancel arch on square responds, with attached nook shafts. Fittings: chancel with dado panelling with built in elliptically headed piscina end choir stalls (6 to north, 6 to south), C17. Base of road screen of 4 panels, brattished rail to right. Pulpit C17, octagonal, with 2 panels on each face, guilloche decoration on arrises, and double hinged door. Box pews, with beaded panelled sides, and 4 painted inscription boards in nave also C17, C19 pews at rear of nave incorporating and reproducing the ogee headed tracery of the road screen upper panels. Brass: in chancel, Thomas Mareys, d.1472. Two foot high figure of priest with 1 mutilated shield remaining. Glass: fragments of C15 glass in chancel south window. Church redundant since 1979. (see B.O.E. Kent II, 1983 469-470).
Listing NGR: TR2545262549 (10)

Additional bibliography (11)

Historic England archive material: BF051892 ALL SAINTS CHURCH, STOURMOUTH File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

<1> OS 6" 1960 (OS Card Reference). SKE48367.

<2> Arch Cant 42 1930 141-6 plan illusts (AH Collins) (OS Card Reference). SKE35106.

<3> MHLG (2067/11/A Sept 1960) 47 (OS Card Reference). SKE46996.

<4> F1 ASP 27-SEP-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42321.

<5> Arch Cant 98 1982 228-9 (T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE36313.

<6> Arch Cant 102 1985 243-5 (T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE34612.

<7> AS Archit 2 3 583 771 964 959 839 866 (HM and J Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE37372.

<8> Field report for monument TR 26 SE 1 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5880.

<9> DOE (HHR) Dist. Dover 26-Nov-1987 (98) (OS Card Reference). SKE40433.

<10> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<11> Tim Tatton-Brown, Arch Cant 1985, 1985, All Saints' Church, West Stourmouth (Article in serial). SKE29339.

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