All Saints, Ulcombe
All Saints, Ulcombe
All Saints on Ulcombe Hill is a Grade I parish church begun in the twelfth century, in the Diocese of Canterbury.
- Location
- Ulcombe, Kent
- Country
- England
- County
- Kent
- City / town
- Ulcombe
- Address
- Ulcombe Hill, Ulcombe, Kent, ME17 1DN
- Postcode
- ME17 1DN
- Built
- 12th–15th centuries; altered internally 1956–63; restored 1980s
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Canterbury
- Parish
- Ulcombe
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman to Perpendicular
- Materials
- Stone (coursed and rubble), plain tile roofs
- Grid reference
- TQ 846 497
- Opening hours
- Daily from 9.30am to 6pm.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
- Website
- http://www.lvb.org.uk/
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, altered internally in 1956–63 and restored in the 1980s: stone with plain tile roofs; west tower with south vestry, nave, south aisle, south porch, chancel, north and south chancel chapels, and a north-east nave chapel. The fifteenth-century three-stage west tower has battlements, gargoyles and a taller polygonal south-east stair turret. Kent’s HER notes Norman work in the south chapel arcade and a window; the chancel and nave are Early English; the south chapel and aisle Decorated; the south porch and tower Perpendicular. Archbishop Stephen Langton made the church collegiate about 1220; the college lapsed soon after 1293. Listed Grade I on 26 April 1968 (NHLE 1060850).