Church of All Saints, Birling
Description: Church of All Saints
Grade: I
Date Listed: 25 August 1959
English Heritage Building ID: 179281
OS Grid Reference: TQ6801960604
OS Grid Coordinates: 568019, 160604
Latitude/Longitude: 51.3197, 0.4098
Location: 10 Snodland Road, Birling, Kent ME19 5JF
Locality: Birling
Local Authority: Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
County: Kent
Country: England
Postcode: ME19 5JF
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Listing Text
BIRLING CP HIGH STREET
TQ 66 SE
(south side)
3/109
25.8.59 Church of All Saints
-
- I
Church. Early C14, C15 and C16, refitted c1828. Random and dressed ragstone.
West tower, nave, north and south aisles and chancel. 3 stage tower separated by
bands, embattled with taller pyramidal-capped octagonal south-east stair turret.
Stepped diagonal buttresses. Paired lancet belfry openings in square-headed
panels, single light window below. Large 2-light arched perpendicular window
below over moulded pointed arched west doorway in square-headed panel. Nave
obscured by aisles, both eccentric mixture of C15 and C16 windows. Chancel
rebuilt in C16 again with eccentric mixture of windows. 6-light east windows.
Interior: 3-bay nave with hollow chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Wooden
trusses to plastered nave barrel vault. No chancel arch. Fittings: Wood font
cover in neo-Gothic style, 4 tiers, 1853. Stained glass of 1840's in east window.
2 C16 tilting helms with Jacobean crests. 2 poppy-heads on bench ends. Brass of
civilian, Walter Mylys, d. 1522. Chancel fittings, c.1828 in minimal neo-Gothic
style.
Listing NGR: TQ6767861234
Source: English Heritage
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