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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1877. A 15th century Church with 19th century alterations and restoration work. The church consists of a nave with aisles, chancel, west tower, north chapel and north porch, it is built mainly of flint, with a tile roof. The chancel was rebuilt in 1833, and there was Victorian period restoration work carried out in 1867 and again in 1877.

Monument Types

• CHURCH (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 06 SE 5:
[TR 0648 6067] St. Michael's Church [NAT] (1) Hernehill church (St. Michael) 3.5 miles east of Faversham is chiefly 15th century with remains of an old rood-screen. (2) Hernhill, St. Michael's consists of a nave with aisles, chancel with continued north aisle, west tower and north porch. The walls are chiefly of flints. The whole church appears to be of Perpendicular character. [Architectural description.] (3) In normal use. (4) Parish Church of St. Michael, Grade I, Hernhill Green (south side). 15th century. Chancel rebuilt 1833, restored 1867, nave restored 1877. (For full description see list.) (5)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 06 SE HERNHILL HERNHILL GREEN (South side)
3/130 Church of 24.1.67 St. Michael
GV I
Parish Church. C15. Chancel rebuilt 1833, restored 1867; nave restored 1877. Chancel, north chapel, nave with aisles and south east chapel, western tower and north porch. Flint and plain tiled roof. Two stage western tower with plinth, string course, cornice and battlements with four times offset diagonal buttresses and south-eastern octagonal stair turret. Double hollow chamfered western doorway. Roll and hollow chamfer north porch doorway with rib and stud door, and interior doorway with hollow chamfer and octagonal attached shafts. Perpendicular C15 tracery throughout, part restored. Stone over east window with inscription:
This Chancel Built by Percy Groves A.D. 1833
Interior: double hollow chamfered tower arch and attached shafts with octagonal capitals. Three bay nave arcade with slim shafts in clusters of 4, with moulded capitals and bases. Double hollow chamfered arcade deeply undercut. Chamfered doorway to stair turret. Roof of 4 crown posts, the end 2 with shortened posts. North aisle with corbel table, cornice and rafter roof, south aisle with roof of 3 crown posts. No chancel arch. Moulded archway through the south east chapel. C19 arch to north (Dawes) chapel. Fitting: four centred arched doors and stair to missing rood left. C15 screen of 5 bays with traceried bays attached shafts and crocketted ogee surrounds, and C19 top section. Chamfered piscina and aumbrey in south aisle. C18 brass chandelier of 12 sticks. Glass: South aisle, C18 window heads, and 3 painted panels, the storey of Joseph, signed C. Handley, 1836 (the Vicar's wife]. In the churchyard are buried John Nichols Thom alias Sir William Courteney, and 6 of his followers, all killed in the Courteney Riots of 1838. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 391).
Listing NGR: TR0656060805 (7)

<1> OS 6" 1908 (OS Card Reference). SKE48323.

<2> Kent Little Guide 1935 6th Edn 183 (J C Cox) (OS Card Reference). SKE45919.

<3> Notes on churches of Kent 1877 238-9 (S R Glynne) (OS Card Reference). SKE47696.

<4> F1 ASP 31-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42363.

<5> DOE (HHR) Swale Boro Kent May 1986 50 (OS Card Reference). SKE40632.

<6> Field report for monument TR 06 SE 5 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5267.

<7> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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