All Saints Church (Ulcombe)
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 0 ° 38 ′ 33.8 ″ E
The All Saints Church is an Anglican parish church in Ulcombe in the Borough of Maidstone in the county of Kent . Its beginnings go back to the 12th century and today the structure is listed at Grade I on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest .
Building
Construction of the church began in the 12th century, and changes were made to the structure in the following three centuries. In the years 1956–63 the structure was changed inside and renovated in the 1980s. The construction of the church consists of inconsistent masonry and rubble stones , the roof of the nave and the chancel is covered with simple roof tiles.
A corridor built in the 13th century runs along the south side of the nave, and a chapel is located at the eastern end of the north side . Further chapels are located north and south of the sanctuary.
A window from the 14th century on the left side of the church portal is opposite to one on the right side of it from the 19th century. The vestibule itself was built in the 15th century and the inner archway possibly in the 14th century. The wall is reinforced by three buttresses . The chapel on the south side of the choir was built in the 12th century, and the two windows on the south side, each with three openings, were added in the 19th century. The window on the east side of the chapel is similar.
tower
The three-story church tower from the 15th century sits on a plinth ; the tower is above a row of walls with gargoyles and a crenellated parapet. A tall turret with a staircase stands on the southeast corner. The openings on both sides of the belfry on the third floor are shaped as a quatrefoil at the top . On the second floor there is a window opening with quatrefoil on the upper edges on each of the three outward facing sides. The window above the west entrance of the church has three openings and has tracery . On the south side is the sacristy , which was built in the 19th century or later from rubble stones and whose half-roof leans against the nave. A staggered window from the Middle Ages is built into this extension; it also has a 19th century entrance and a window on the south side.
Interior
In the north wall of the nave there are two windows with two openings each and a gateway between them. The chapel on the north side was built at the end of the 13th century and forms a continuous facade with the chapel on the north side of the choir, which was built at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. The two outer corners of the chapel have buttresses placed diagonally. The east-facing window of the choir chapel has three openings and a tracery and to the north two windows with three openings and one with two openings. In the walls of the chapel of the nave facing north and west there are windows with three openings. The gable side of the choir to the east is also supported by buttresses at the outer corners. Your southern window dates from the early 14th century and the three openings are made in Bethersden Marble . The north-facing window also dates from the 14th century. The east window of the choir, built in the 13th century, consists of three separate openings, the middle one being higher than the other two.
Inside, the nave is separated from the south corridor by a series of pointed arches with three bays from the 13th century. These lead into rectangular pillars. The arch to the northern chapel is similar. The chancel is separated from the attached chapels by two arches on each side. The arches on the south side date from the 13th century, but a column from the 12th century. The chancel was built in the 13th century, possibly on foundations from the 12th century. The arch to the tower dates from the 15th century, as does the arch between the southern corridor and the chapel on the southern side. The shingle roof of the northern choir chapel dates from the early 16th century, the rest of the church is covered with roof tiles from the 19th century.
A piscina from the 13th century is set in the south wall of the south chapel . The eastern end of the choir has two arms . In each of the western arches in the chancel, a richly carved "parclose screen" (a wooden partition wall similar to a Latvian ) separates the choir from the chapels behind. The northern part of these barriers was made at the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century and has Gothic folds in the lower part . The barrier on the south side was built in the 15th century and shows seven window-like openings with five-pass openings in the upper area and church chairs with three carved misericords below . The walls are decorated with murals in various places , including a representation of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil , several representations of the crucifixion and the representation of the rich man and poor Lazarus . The north window of the choir bears grisaille stained glass, the east window of the north chro chapel a glass painting made in honor of the St Leger family .
Inside the church there are tombstones and breams of Sir William Maydeston († 1419), Randulph Sentleger († 1470) and his wife Anne, Sir Francis Clerke († 1685, MP for the constituency of Rochester ), Francis Clerke († 1691, also MP for Rochester), William Belcher († 1709), Samuel Belcher († 1760), other members of the Belcher family who died between 1739 and 1819, Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde († 1820) and Lady Sarah Wandesforde († 1838). An unlabeled bream is possibly dedicated to John St Ledger († 1442).
Churchyard
In the churchyard there is a grade II table grave from the middle of the 18th century. There are also several ancient yew trees in this cemetery, one of which is said to be over 2000 years old.
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f g Church of All Saints [1060850] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England . Retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b All Saints Church, Ulcombe, Kent ( English ) In: Culpeper Connections . Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
- ↑ Table tomb to John Earl about 4 meters south of Church of All Saints [1060851] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England. Retrieved March 4, 2013.