St Michael & All Angels, Hartlip
St Michael & All Angels, Hartlip
St Michael and All Angels is a Grade I parish church on The Street in Hartlip, Kent, in the Diocese of Canterbury and The Six benefice.
- Location
- Hartlip, Kent
- Country
- England
- County
- Kent
- City / town
- Hartlip
- Address
- The Street, Hartlip, Kent, ME9 7TL
- Postcode
- ME9 7TL
- Built
- C13–C15; tower repaired 1855; restored 1864–65
- Architect
- R C Hussey (restoration 1864–65)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Canterbury
- Parish
- Hartlip
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Gothic
- Materials
- Flint with rubble and plain tiled roofs
- Grid reference
- TQ 839 642
- Opening hours
- Daily during daily hours (but usually 8am to 5pm).
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, with the tower repaired in 1855 and a restoration of 1864–65 by R. C. Hussey. The fabric is flint with rubble and plain tiled roofs. The plan has a nave with aisles, a chancel with north and south chapels, a south porch, and a west tower with a priest’s room. The three-stage west tower has a string course to the parapet and a three-stage octagonal stair turret. A north-west lean-to priest’s or anchorite’s room has steps down to a basement and a chimney.
The interior has a chamfered tower arch and three-bay arcades. An angle piscina in the chancel is heavily restored but retains a late-twelfth-century shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital. The listing also notes a reredos of the Last Supper and a black-and-white marble monument with putti in the north chapel. The church is open daily during daylight hours.