Church of Saint Gregory and Saint Martin, Wye, Kent

Heritage listing

Details TR 0446 0546 WYE HIGH STREET (north side) 8/263 Church of St 27.11.57 Gregory and St Martin GV I Parish church. C13 origin, remodelled C15 for Cardinal Archbishop John Kempe. East end rebuilt 1701-1710. Restored 1873/1878. Flint and rubble with plain tiled roof. Nave with aisles, chancel, south-eastern tower and south porch. Kneelered gabled west end with Perpendicular style west window (1950's), with triple shafted and moulded C13 doorway. Aisles buttressed throughout, with coved corbel table and battlements. The north aisle (carried round to east of nave) in particular with fine series of grotesque heads (some to south). Battlements. Perpendicular fenestration throughout. Two storey porch, the side elevations treated as one with aisles, the south elevation reworked e-C18, with rusticated ashlar quoins and arch, with round eastern angle vice. Large 2 stage south-eastern tower on site of C13 transept with massive triple offset diagonal buttresses, and polygonal north-eastern stair turret, crowned with battlements and pyramidal finials. Keyed round headed brick belfry lights, simple moulded door. Many stones set in tower recording benefactors, 1701-10. Short, low chancel, with shallow apse and battlements. Three round headed windows, and blocked round headed openings visible especially in north elevations, 1873 set in window cills, T.D. 1706 in apse wall. Fine C18 raised and fielded panelled double doors in west and south doorways. Wall plaque sunk into north aisle, to John, Elizabeth and Sarah Hudson, d. 1718-19, with double skull head. Interior: nave of 4 bays, with springing of a fifth to the east. C13 capitals and deeply undercut moulded arches, the piers remodelled with hollow chamfers mid C15. Clerestory with segmentally headed 3 light windows added at same

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.