St Mary's Church, Nettlestead

Heritage listing

Details NETTLESTEAD MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 65 SE (East side) 1/3 Church of St. Mary 23-5-67 GV I Parish church. C13, circa 1438, 1460s, circa 1496 and 1841, with alterations of 1858 by Joseph Clarke. Tower small lumps of roughly-coursed ragstone. Larger blocks of more evenly-coursed ragstone to nave and chancel. Slightly larger blocks still to porch. Wood shingles to tower, plain tile roofs to rest. West tower, nave, south porch, chancel (narrower than nave). West tower: C13. Two stages, with battered plinth. Pyramidal roof. Louvred pointed lancet towards top of each face of belfry except east. Pointed west lancet and small rectangular south lancet towards base of belfry stage. Pointed west and south lancets to lower stage. Medieval west doorway inserted 1858 and said to have come from Teston church (demolished c.1736); moulded pointed-arched outer architrave containing tracery of two cinquefoil-headed lights and quatrefoil over low doubly plain - chamfered pointed inner architrave. Ribbed and studded door. Nave: c.1438 or slightly earlier. Deep moulded plinth, continued round buttresses and exposed sections of gable ends. Moulded stone string at window-cill level, interrupted by buttresses. Four buttresses reaching to eaves, one at each end of south elevation and two towards centre, with moulded stone coping to offsets. Moulded strings returned along gable ends from offsets of outer buttresses. Three tall C15 south windows virtually filling bays between buttresses, moulded, with cambered heads, three cinquefoil-headed lights, tracery of vertical bars, and moulded hoodmoulds with pendant ends. South-west window has higher cill to accommodate doorway. South porch: c.1496. Fills south-west bay of nave. Chamfered plinth, continued from base of nave plinth. Moulded stone coping

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.