Description

TQ 64 NW
1694/6/102

HADLOW
GOLDEN GREEN
THREE ELM LANE
Golden Green Mission Church

19-FEB-90

II
Church, also used as a community hall. Erected c1914 either as a new structure or reusing existing building from another site. Timber-framed, clad and roofed with corrugated iron, painted green.

PLAN: small chapel on east west axis comprising nave and chancel in the same block. North porch towards the west end. Later C20 kitchen and toilet block in matching materials to rear.

EXTERIOR: front has three windows with pointed arched heads containing timber Y-tracery. There is another each end and one more south of the chancel. Gabled porch with two-centred outer arch containing a plain plank door. Roof is gable- ended.

INTERIOR: four bays. Lined with pine tongue-and-groove planking with plain pine russes.with three tiers of purlins and ridgepiece and iron supports.

HISTORY: Kelly's Directory of Kent of 1891 mentions the "iron church at Golden Green in connection with the parish church" but Golden Green Mission Church was not erected until after 1914 when the land was gifted to the vicar and churchwardens of Hadlow by the local landowner Mr Osim d'Avigdor Goldsmid of Somerhill for use as the site for a church.Since the mid 1970s it has also been used as a community hall.

Listing NGR: TQ6457348176

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26324283

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5