Church Of All Saints

GOODNESTONE CHILLENDEN TR 25 SE Church of All 3/53 Saints 11.10.63 GV II* Parish Church. C12, with C14 and C15 fenestration. Restored 1871 by G.G. Scott. Flint, in part coursed and set herring bone fashion, with plain tiled roof and shingled tower and spirelet. Chancel nave and western bell tower and north porch. Identical C15 two light Perpendicular windows and ogee headed fenestration elsewhere, with exposed blocked head of C12 windows in chancel north wall. C19 half-timbered north porch, the doorway with C19 or C20 attached shafts and tympanum carved with lamb and flag, original C12 billet moulded head with zigzag drip mould, with C12 roll and wave moulded south doorway. Chancel stepped in from nave, with interior frame for bell turret at west end of church, with arcaded base, ogee braced trusses. Roof of 4 crown posts. Fittings: ogee headed piscina and shelved aumbrey in chancel. Screen, of 1871, large with 3 ogee headed bays. Pulpit, C17, octagonal with fluted pillar stem and fluted frieze to plain panel sides, supported on carved brackets. Tester with drops at the corners, and panelled backboard. C19 or C20 handrail on turned balusters. Glass: fragments of Medieval glass in window heads. Monument to George Mutter, d. 1813. White pedimented wall tablet on black background, signed T.Milnes (of London). (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 276).

Listing NGR: TR2710053528