Church Of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A C13 Church.
Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- nether-garret-lake
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century, with re-fenestration occurring in the 15th century. The chancel was restored in 1873. The church features a nave, aisles, transepts, chancel, and a west tower. It is constructed from flint and ragstone, topped with plain tiled roofs. The west tower is built in two stages and includes large offset projecting buttresses, a string course, a cornice, battlements, and Perpendicular-style two-light belfry openings. The west doorway is hollow chamfered and roll moulded. There are chapels and vestries on either side of the tower, each featuring a lancet window.
The north and south aisles each have two offset buttresses, lean-to roofs, and gabled 19th-century dormers in the nave roof—two on the south and one on the north. The large transepts have paired lancet and quatrefoil windows on the north and south sides, with three lancets on the west wall of the north transept, where only the jambs remain. The eastern faces of the transepts have inserted 15th-century Perpendicular windows. The chancel is supported by diagonal offset buttresses and has three lancets on both the north and south walls, along with a large 15th-century Perpendicular east window featuring five lights and ten over six in the head of the arch.
Inside, the nave has two bay arcades on octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases, and a roof supported by four crown posts. The transepts have roofs with two crown posts each and doors leading to a missing rood screen across the chancel. The reveals of the lancets and quatrefoils are deep, and there is evidence of complete rebuilding of at least the north transept's east wall to accommodate the 15th-century windows. The chancel arch is chamfered and rests on octagonal responds, while the chancel has a panelled roof with three crown posts. Notable fittings include a cusped piscina in the chancel, a simple piscina in the south transept, an octagonal 17th-century pulpit, an octagonal font, and an organ gallery in the nave supported by four banded piers with octagonal caps and a cast iron spiral staircase.
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