All Saints, Iwade
All Saints, Iwade
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on The Street, Iwade, Kent, overlooking the Swale, in the Diocese of Canterbury.
- Location
- Iwade, Kent
- Country
- England
- County
- Kent
- City / town
- Iwade
- Address
- The Street, Iwade, Kent, ME9 8SJ
- Postcode
- ME9 8SJ
- Built
- C13; south aisle c.1504; restored 1874; south porch 1893
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Canterbury
- Parish
- Iwade
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval with Perpendicular south aisle
- Materials
- Rubble with plain tiled roofs; flint and rubble west tower with shingle roof
- Grid reference
- TQ 900 679
- Opening hours
- Open most days during daylight hours.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records a thirteenth-century parish church with fourteenth-century fenestration, a south aisle after a bequest of 1504, restoration in 1874 and a south porch of 1893. The fabric is rubble under plain tiled roofs, with a two-stage flint and rubble west tower under a shingle roof. The listing notes a blocked west doorway, Perpendicular aisle windows, and a c.1504 inner door of overlapping plank and stud with strapped ironwork and a ring handle of two twisted dragons. Listing NGR is TQ 90099 67904.
The interior has a two-bay south arcade on octagonal piers, four-crown-post roofs to nave and aisle, no chancel arch, and a raised floor. Fittings include a stoup by the south door, piscinas in chancel and aisle, and a three-bay Perpendicular wooden screen in the south aisle. Brasses commemorate Symon Snelling (d. 1467) and his wife Joyce. The south-east window holds a crucifixion of about 1504, repaired in 1840. George III royal arms hang on the west wall. Love’s Guide records two twelfth-century bells, the oldest pair in Kent, rehung for swing chiming in 1992.