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Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Birling, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3197 / 51°19'11"N

Longitude: 0.4098 / 0°24'35"E

OS Eastings: 568019

OS Northings: 160604

OS Grid: TQ680606

Mapcode National: GBR NP5.8F5

Mapcode Global: VHJM5.13Z4

Plus Code: 9F328C95+VW

Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 25 August 1959

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1070519

English Heritage Legacy ID: 179281

Also known as: All Saints Church, Birling, Kent

ID on this website: 101070519

Location: All Saints' Church, Birling, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, ME19

County: Kent

District: Tonbridge and Malling

Civil Parish: Birling

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Birling All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


BIRLING CP HIGH STREET TQ 66 SE (south side) 3/109 25.8.59 Church of All Saints -

- I

Church. Early C14, C15 and C16, refitted c1828. Random and dressed ragstone. West tower, nave, north and south aisles and chancel. 3 stage tower separated by bands, embattled with taller pyramidal-capped octagonal south-east stair turret. Stepped diagonal buttresses. Paired lancet belfry openings in square-headed panels, single light window below. Large 2-light arched perpendicular window below over moulded pointed arched west doorway in square-headed panel. Nave obscured by aisles, both eccentric mixture of C15 and C16 windows. Chancel rebuilt in C16 again with eccentric mixture of windows. 6-light east windows. Interior: 3-bay nave with hollow chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Wooden trusses to plastered nave barrel vault. No chancel arch. Fittings: Wood font cover in neo-Gothic style, 4 tiers, 1853. Stained glass of 1840's in east window. 2 C16 tilting helms with Jacobean crests. 2 poppy-heads on bench ends. Brass of civilian, Walter Mylys, d. 1522. Chancel fittings, c.1828 in minimal neo-Gothic style.

Listing NGR: TQ6767861234

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