Description

TR 06 SW LUDDENHAM + OARE CHURCH ROAD
(East side)

(Oare)
2/156
Church of
24.1.67 St. Peter

GV I

Parish Church. C13, C16 and restored and spire added 1877-8 by Joseph Clarke.
Flint and rubble stone with plain tiled roof and shingled spire. Chancel and
nave with belfry and spire at west end, north-west vestry and south porch.
West end rebuilt and dated 1877 with 2 large pinnacled buttresses, restored
C13 roll moulded doorway with quatrefoil over. Relieving arch to belfry.
Diagonal offset buttresses. Half-timbered south porch, C16 Perpendicular and
C19 windows except single cusped light in north nave wall. Exposed quoins of
nave incorporated in widened chancel walls. Lean-to vestry at north-west.
Interior: no chancel arch, roof of 3 crown posts in nave, roof of 2 crown
posts in chancel. C19 fittings and furniture except large Romanesque Purbeck
marble font on renewed shafts. Timbered gallery at west end. (See B.O.E.
Kent II, 1983, 408-9)

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530032

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair