Description

ST 82 NW GILLINGHAM MILTON-ON-STOUR

3/135 Church of St Simon and St Jude

- II

Chapel of Ease, 1868 by Slater and Carpenter. Coursed, squared rubble with gable-ended, tiled roof with stone copings. Plan: nave, apsidal chancel, north and south aisles, west tower, north vestry/organ chamber. Generally in the early 'Decorated' style. West tower: 3 stages with broach spire, sqaure set buttresses and southern vice; 2-centred west window with geometric tracery and label with headstops; small lancets to second stage; third stage has paired lancets with roll-mouldings and pierced stone panels; spire bears quatrefoils. Aisles have trefoiled, paired lancets. East and west aisle windows have 2-centred heads and plate tracery. Chancel has lancets with trefoiled heads and labels with head-stops. Gabled porch with 2-centred moulded arch and shafted jambs with carved capitals. Inner doorway is roll-moulded and has a door with scrolled, wrought-iron hinges. External vice door similar. Internal features: 3-bay arcades with 2-centred heads of 2-chamfered orders and round piers with carved capitals; 2-centred chancel arch with shafted jambs having carved capitals and label with head-stops over; 2-centred, moulded tower arch with flat soffit and semi-pilasters with carved capital to jambs; nave roof has arch braced collar trusses springing from corbels, queenposts with windbracing to upper purlins and 2 sets of windbraced purlins; chancel has, ribbed, boarded barrel-vault roof; boarded aisle roofs; roofs are painted with fleurons and other decoration; arcaded stone pulpit with marble shafts dated 1887; round font with clustered shafts; pews with carved bench ends; C19/C20 glass. (Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England; Dorset, Penguin 1972, p 295).

Listing NGR: ST8016628666

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback