Description

TR 15 NW CHARTHAM
Horton Manor Chapel
Horton

8/268
30.1.67
GV II

Manorial chapel, later barn and then oasthouse and storehouse. Circa 1300 nave with late C14 chancel and alterations to nave and 2 later C19 oasthouse additions. Built of flints partly faced with rough plaster. Former tiled roof absent at time of survey. Nave and chancel with bellcote to west end with 2 arches. No original window openings survive. To the north and east are late C19 oasthouses of flint with red brick dressings, one retaining pyramidal roof structure. INTERIOR of chapel has late C14 Reigate stone chancel arch and trefoil-headed piscina. Circa 1300 scissor-braced roof to nave and part of chancel and late C14 crownpost roof underneath were in a collapsed state at time of survey. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(Source: Tatton-Brown T: The topography and buildings of Horton Manor, near Canterbury: Archaeologia Cantiana: 1982: XCVIII: 77-105).

Listing NGR: TR1145355224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26373960

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