Description

ST 82 NW GILLINGHAM MILTON-ON-STOUR

3/135 Church of St Simon
and St Jude

- II

Chapel of Ease, 1868 by Slater and Carpenter. Coursed, squared rubble
with gable-ended, tiled roof with stone copings. Plan: nave, apsidal
chancel, north and south aisles, west tower, north vestry/organ chamber.
Generally in the early 'Decorated' style. West tower: 3 stages with
broach spire, sqaure set buttresses and southern vice; 2-centred west
window with geometric tracery and label with headstops; small lancets to
second stage; third stage has paired lancets with roll-mouldings and
pierced stone panels; spire bears quatrefoils. Aisles have trefoiled,
paired lancets. East and west aisle windows have 2-centred heads and
plate tracery. Chancel has lancets with trefoiled heads and labels
with head-stops. Gabled porch with 2-centred moulded arch and shafted
jambs with carved capitals. Inner doorway is roll-moulded and has a
door with scrolled, wrought-iron hinges. External vice door similar.
Internal features: 3-bay arcades with 2-centred heads of 2-chamfered
orders and round piers with carved capitals; 2-centred chancel arch with
shafted jambs having carved capitals and label with head-stops over;
2-centred, moulded tower arch with flat soffit and semi-pilasters with
carved capital to jambs; nave roof has arch braced collar trusses
springing from corbels, queenposts with windbracing to upper purlins and
2 sets of windbraced purlins; chancel has, ribbed, boarded barrel-vault
roof; boarded aisle roofs; roofs are painted with fleurons and other
decoration; arcaded stone pulpit with marble shafts dated 1887; round
font with clustered shafts; pews with carved bench ends; C19/C20 glass.
(Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England; Dorset, Penguin 1972,
p 295).

Listing NGR: ST8016628666

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403987

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