Church of St Michael Hawkinge, England

Listed Building Data

Church of St Michael has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1242021
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
29 December 1966
Name
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Location
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, GRAVEYARD HILL
Parish
Hawkinge
District
Shepway
County
Kent
Grid Reference
TR 22808 39689
Easting
622807.6300
Northing
139688.7000

Listed Building Description

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TR 23 NW HAWKINGE GRAVEYARD HILL (west side)

7/135 Church of St. Michael 29.12.66

GV I

Parish church. Late Cll or C12, C13, and C17, restored 1875. Flint, with stone quoins and dressings. Plain tile roof. Continuous nave and chancel. South porch to nave. Nave: west end: no plinth. Gabled, with C19 bellcote. Pointed, plain-chamfered lancet. Blocked round- headed late Cll or C12 doorway with small voussoirs carved with raised diamond pattern. South elevation: one plain-chamfered pointed lancet towards west end and one tall rectangular C17 two-light window with plain-chamfered mullion towards east. South porch: galleted flint and stone, with plain tile roof. Broad, and gabled. No windows. Plain-chamfered round-headed outer doorway with consecration cross. Inner doorway has rounded jambs, segmental head, and boarded door. Chancel: south elevation: rectangular two-light C17 window towards nave. Tall plain-chamfered pointed lancet with transom. Another C17 two- light window towards east end. East end: two tall plain- chamfered pointed lancets flanking a central buttress with offsets. North elevation: unfenestrated. C19 lean-to vestry with two lancets and doorway in a C13 style. Nave: north elevation: three broadly-spaced plain-chamfered pointed lancets. Interior: roof: four crown-post trusses to nave, with chamfered tie-beams, octagonal crown-posts with chamfered rectangular capitals and bases, sous-laces, ashlar-pieces and plain-chamfered cornice. C19 collar-purlin roof to chancel. Fittings: two east end lancets share a single chamfered rere arch, with canted buttress between the lights. South- east chancel window has deep C13 window-seat sedilla with piscina in top of east 'arm'. Piscina in small pointed-arched recess to east end of south wall, with image corbel to slightly-projecting bowl. Octagonal font with chamfered bowl and plinth. Pamment floor to nave. Monuments: slab on chancel floor to William Rolfe, d.1740, his wife and children (d.1747-86); probably erected after 1786. Broadly scrolled top with two cherubs' heads. Monument on north wall of chancel, to John Herdson, d.1622; alabaster. Moulded plinth, with strapwork base-plate with crowned skull. Slightly recessed rectangular inscription panel flanked by pilasters carved with fruit, bibles and insignia of death. Rosette paterae. Inscribed frieze. Moulded cornice. Iron bracket above. Declared redundant in 1980. (J. Newman, Buildings of England Series, North-east and east Kent, 1983 edn).

Listing NGR: TR2293539822