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Latitude: 51.1054 / 51°6'19"N
Longitude: 0.3571 / 0°21'25"E
OS Eastings: 565110
OS Northings: 136652
OS Grid: TQ651366
Mapcode National: GBR NRM.M3K
Mapcode Global: VHJN3.4GMY
Plus Code: 9F324944+5R
Entry Name: Bayham Leglise
Listing Date: 24 July 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1336704
English Heritage Legacy ID: 169982
ID on this website: 101336704
Location: Hook Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Lamberhurst
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Lamberhurst St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Architectural structure Church building Former church House
LAMBERHURST CLAY HILL ROAD
TQ 63 NE
(west side)
3/145 Bayham L'Eglise
24.7.89
GV II
Church, now house. 1870 for Marquess Camden, by David Brandon, architect, extended c.1908 and converted 1985. Random coursed dressed sandstone with
ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof. Nave and chancel with south-east
tower and south porch and north-east vestry. Plinth around whole building,
with corner and occasional side buttresses (especially north nave wall)
and parapet gables to nave and chancel with enriched cross finials. Tower broached to spire with full lucarne stage. Half-timbered porch on
sandstone base, with glazed outer doors and moulded inner door in roll
moulded doorway. Trecusped and paired lancets throughout, with shafted and
grouped lancets to east and west windows with roundels and hood moulds
over, the east window with inserted arched doorway. Simple mullioned
windows to vestry. Main internal arches retained. Built as the Bayham
estate church and an important element in the landscaped park to Bayham
Abbey, the Marquess Camden's house, also by Brandon, and which also
includes the remains of the medieval abbey (in East Sussex).
Listing NGR: TQ6511036652
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