St Mary's Church, Goudhurst

Heritage listing

Details GOUDHURST CHURCH ROAD TQ 7237-7337 (south side) 15/118 Church of St Mary 20.6.67 GV I Parish church. C13 to C15, tower rebuilt 1638-40. Restored 1865-70 to designs of Slater and Carpenter; Ewan Christian executant architect. Sandstone with plain tiled roof. Chancel with north and south chapels, nave with aisles, west tower with south west vestry/sacristy. West tower built 1638-40 (the old one destroyed by lightning 1637) for £750 by London builders, Edmund Kinsman, James Holman, John Young. Two stages on plinth with Classical mouldings, and with offset clasping buttresses; that to north east with stair lights and raised to turret. Battle- mented, with 2-light arched belfry windows in square surrounds and early C20 clock face. Three-light west window, a copy of those at St Mary Cree, London, cusped lights, that to centre raised, in moulded squared surround. Classical west door- way, flanked by niches, with rustic half columns supporting entablature and segmental pediment, the doorway with arched and keyed surround on moulded imposts. C19 2-storey vestry with angle vice to south west. South aisle with 5 offset buttresses, with 2 more to separately roofed south east chapel; steeply pitched gabled roof. Projecting canted bay to easternmost bay of aisle. Nave roof with roundel to east gable, and stepped down chancel roof, with exposed jambs on north and south walls of lancets (C19 lancet east window). North aisle and north east chapel built as one operation, separated by projecting vice, the whole buttressed and battlemented with 3-light arched Perpendicular style fenestration, as throughout the church, except chancel, mostly C19 reconstructions based on original evidence. Hood moulded northern door. Attached to the tower and vestry is a railed enclosure with spear h

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.