Description

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TQ 6574 SW
2/13

COMMERCIAL PLACE (east side)
Milton Chantry

23.1.52.

II*
The property of Gravesend Corporation. The Chantry chapel is all that remains of the leprosy hospital of Milton which was founded by Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, about 1322. This was converted into a dwelling at the Reformation and became a public house called the New Tavern in the C18. It was restored in 1852 and 1862 and again recently. The east wall is of flints. The remainder of the exterior has been rebuilt or encased in brown brick in the C19. Tiled roof. Restored window of Early English type in the east wall. C17 chimney stack. The interior contains a C14 arch-braced roof on the first floor and a stone fireplace with blank spandrels. Similar C14 arch-braced roof on the second floor. There are the remains of a cross-wing three bays with Queen post roof.

Listing NGR: TQ6525474338

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Milton Chantry at Wikipedia
• Milton Chantry official website
• Wikidata Q17361858

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey