Description

HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (south side) Highgate 17/422 Church of All Saints GV II Chapel of ease. 1861, by Sir G G Scott for Rev H E and Miss C Jennings. Sand- stone with plain tiled roof and shingled spire. chancel, nave with aisles, south-eastern tower and north porch. Exterior of uniform execution with plinth, string course, offset corner buttresses and corbel table to parapet-gabled roofs with cross finials. Paired cusped lancets with trefoils under single hood throughout, with wheel window in western gable, and west window set in blind arcading. Blind arcading also to chancel north wall. Tower of 3 stages with off- set corner buttresses, lancette stair lights and recessed lancet belfry openings with roundels over and corbel table to broach spire. Gabled north porch with arcaded side walls (integral benches within) and moulded outer and inner doorways with attached shafts and hoods and florid stiff-leaf decoration, the inner door with good quality scrolled C-strap hinges. Interior: faced with sandstone ashlar, with 4 bay arcades, the round piers with French influenced crockets and with keel-moulded arches, with corbelled colonettes to responds. Open trussed rafter roof. Roll and keel moulded chancel arch on corbels, and simple hood moulded arches from south aisle and chancel to tower chapel. Sanctuary with blind arcading with marble shafts and string course, windows with attached shafts. Fittings: brass foliage bracketed altar rail and scrolled carved bench ends in chancel. Brass lectern and enriched brass rail to stone pulpit with dogtooth and water leaf enrichment and relief panels of Apostles. Columned stem. Fluted stem and bowl font with inscription and Holy Dove. All fittings by Scott. Glass in chancel by Clayton and Bell, 1861. See BOE, Kent, I, 1980, 316; see also Victorian Churches of Kent, Roger Homans, 1984, 64.

Listing NGR: TQ7620830509

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