St Mary the Virgin, Wingham church, Kent, Kent

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Site Location

Wingham church, Kent

Boundaries

pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Kent
now Kent

Diocese

now Canterbury

Dedication

now St Mary the Virgin

Type of building/monument

Parish church

Report authors

Mary Berg
Toby Huitson

Visit Date

14 Jun 2014

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Feature Sets

Exterior Features

Description

A former collegiate church in a small market town in East Kent. It has a tower of c. 1400 and a S aisle rebuilt in the late 16thc.

Many pieces of tooled Caen stone can be seen on the exterior of the tower, doubtless re-set, but only two are sculptural.

History

No record before the 13thc..

Features

Exterior Features

Other

Comments/Opinions

The large block reset on the SE buttress of the tower is quite substantial for this context and could, perhaps, have originated from a large tympanum.

Bibliography

E. Hasted, 'Parishes: Wingham', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (Canterbury, 1800), 224-241. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp224-241 accessed 31 March 2016.