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Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Wye with Hinxhill, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1462 / 51°8'46"N

Longitude: 0.9275 / 0°55'39"E

OS Eastings: 604861

OS Northings: 142620

OS Grid: TR048426

Mapcode National: GBR SY9.1B8

Mapcode Global: VHKKP.1G66

Plus Code: 9F324WWH+F2

Entry Name: Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 27 November 1957

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1275459

English Heritage Legacy ID: 411819

ID on this website: 101275459

Location: St Mary's Church, Hinxhill, Ashford, Kent, TN25

County: Kent

District: Ashford

Civil Parish: Wye with Hinxhill

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


TR 04 SW WYE HINXHILL


3/268 Church of
27.11.57 St Mary (formerly
listed under the
parish of Hinxhill)

GV I

Parish church. C13, C14 north chapel and aisle spire rebuilt 1797
general restoration 1881. Ragstone with red brick porch and buttresses.
Plain tiled roof and shingled spire. Chancel with north chapel, nave and
north aisle, western tower and south porch. Single stage tower with
large offset diagonal buttresses, and with broach spire. Shallow roll
mould to west door. Irregularly bonded C17 brick south porch (now vestry).
Perpendicular fenestration to nave (some C19 restoration) and ogee headed
C14 windows to chancel, chapel and north aisle, with lancet windows to
east and west ends of both chancel and aisle/chapel (re-used from C13).
Interior: simple C12 tower arch on imposts. Three bay north arcade with
round piers and octagonal capitals and octagonal responds. Restored tie-
beam roof and lean-to roof to aisle. Wooden chancel arch/screen erected
(and dated) 1637, with enriched bowed arched braces and traceried upper
section. Wooden arches to north aisle/north chapel in similar vein but
of c.1881. Chancel with roof of 2 crown posts. Fittings: C13 sedile and
trecusped piscina in chancel and ogee headed piscina or aumbrey in north
chapel east wall. C19 altar rail reredos font and lecturn. C16
Perpendicular panelling used as wainscotting in chancel and incorporated
into reading desk and pulpit (n.b. benches dated 1834). Fragment of C17
painted glass in vestry. Brass inscription in nave to Robert Gateley,
d.1514. Monument: Robert Edolph, erected 1632. Large standing alabaster
monument. Black Corinthian columns support a broken segmental pediment
with 3 arms cartouches over lifesize figures of Edolph and his Lady
kneeling at a prayer desk with double arcaded background. Paired skulls
below to either side of inscription and verses. Charity board in tower,
with cornice on pilasters, recording the gifts of Martha Wade, 1825.
(See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 352).


Listing NGR: TR0543142993

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