Historic churches · South East England
Christ Church, Kilndown
Christ Church, Kilndown — church in Kilndown, Kent, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- Wadhurst · 8.2 km
- Free entry
About
Christ Church, Kilndown is a historic church in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1840. Heritage designation: Grade I listed building. Affiliated with Anglicanism. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Kilndown, Kent, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.0908°, 0.4270°.
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Heritage listing
Christ Church is a Church of England parish church in Kilndown, Kent, England. It was built in 1839 under the commission of William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, and was substantially reordered in the early 1840s in accordance with the principles of the Cambridge Camden Society (later the Ecclesiological Society). Its layout and rich interior decoration, contributed by a range of major architects of the era, made it "a showcase" of the influential Society's ideas: John Betjeman described the church as "a museum of the Camden Society". It was severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War, but has been restored.
From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.
Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: High Weald
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Kent Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Christ Church is a Church of England parish church in Kilndown, Kent, England. It was built in 1839 under the commission of William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, and was substantially reordered in the early 1840s in accordance with the principles of the Cambridge Camden Society (later the Ecclesiological Society). Its layout and rich interior decoration, contributed by a range of major architects of the era, made it "a showcase" of the influential Society's ideas: John Betjeman described the church as "a museum of the Camden Society". It was severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War, but has been restored. It is a Grade I listed building.
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Background
History
Christ Church was commissioned by Viscount Beresford, who was a Field Marshal under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars. at a cost of £2500. It was originally designed as a chapel-of-ease for the nearby St Mary's Church, Goudhurst, but an Act of Parliament established it as its own independent Church of England parish in 1843. This Act, which was associated with the various Church Building Acts passed in the first decades of the 19th century, was passed on 24 February 1843. It described the parish of Goudhurst as having 2,850 residents but only one parish church (St Mary's), with a capacity of 750, and the new chapel of ease (Christ Church) with 413 seats, 313 of…
Architecture
Christ Church is built of sandstone quarried in Kilndown village. Inside, the church has a low, wide, "stringy" hammerbeam roof, considered by the Cambridge Camden Society as a particularly unsympathetic feature of the original "mean and bad" interior. The 1840 work partly concealed this behind a pierced parapet. which is separately listed at Grade II and is located immediately outside the south wall.
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- Coordinates
- 51.0908, 0.4270
- County
- Kent
- District
- Tunbridge Wells
- Parish
- Goudhurst
- Postcode
- TN17 2SF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Tunbridge Wells
- Established
- 1840
- Nearest railway station
- Wadhurst — 8.2 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q17524689 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Christ Church, Kilndown (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Christ Church, Kilndown.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Christ Church, Kilndown?
- Christ Church, Kilndown is in Kent, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode TN17 2SF), in the parish of Goudhurst.
- When was Christ Church, Kilndown built?
- Built or established in 1840.
- Is Christ Church, Kilndown a listed building?
- Christ Church, Kilndown is officially recognised as Grade I listed building listed.
- Is Christ Church, Kilndown a protected site?
- Yes — Christ Church, Kilndown is part of the High Weald National Landscape (AONB) and the Kent Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Christ Church, Kilndown free to visit?
- Yes, Christ Church, Kilndown is free to enter.
- How do I get to Christ Church, Kilndown?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode TN17 2SF. It sits within the Tunbridge Wells parliamentary constituency.