Parish Church The Annunciation Of Blessed Virgin Mary

HIGH STREET, 1. 4407 CHISELHURST Parish Church. The Annunciation of Blessed Virgin Mary. TQ 47 SW 6/73 B

the grade shall be amended to Grade II* (star) and the description shall be amended to read as follows:

Church. 1868-70 by James Brooks. Ragstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan of tall, four-bay nave with clerestorey and small, lean-to side aisles; chancel expressed externally with lower roof, bellcote at south-east corner; Lady chapel, and vestry with prominent chimney. Gothic Revival style with singular flying buttress at north-east corner. Plate tracery to most windows of circle over two lancets. Large 'wheel' window in west gable with plate tracery, whilst the east window has five lancet lights, with three roundels above and bar tracery. Churchyard walls also of ragstone with ashlar dressings. INTERIOR. Nave has high timber roof with pierced ties. Four-bay arcade with pointed arches delineated by moulded strings above. Squat piers, round on south arcade and square on north arcade with square carved vine-leaf capitals. Octagonal font of pink and green marble on stone base with flat, carved wooden cover. Pulpit of carved wood on base of pink marble and stone. Original radiators and draft lobby screens at west end of nave. Chancel is richly decorated. Reredos of 1877 by Brooks, executed by Westlake, has gabled centre flanked by tiers of roundels. Base of chancel screen also by Brooks, 1877, with figures of the apostles by Westlake. Remainder, including rood, added in 1928. Wall paintings of 1882 and 1892 by Westlake. Mosaic over chancel arch designed by Westlake and made by Salviati in 1890. Stained glass in east and west windows, 1870 by Hardman to Brooks's design. Original Gothic Revival carved wood pews; patterned encaustic tile pavement, Ornate wrought-iron screen to Lady Chapel designed by Brooks.

HIGH STREET, CHISLEHURST 1. 4407 ------------------------ Parish Church. The Annunciation of Blessed Virgin Mary TQ 47 SW 6/73

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1. 1. Architect James Brooks. Detached tower of Norman shape. Nave and chancel of ragstone. Nave of 4 bays. Squat capitals with vine leaf moulding. Slate roof.

Listing NGR: TQ4383970931