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Christ Church, Ashford Location in Kent
Christ Church, AshfordCoordinates: 51°08′23″N 0°52′11″E / 51.1396°N 0.8698°E OS grid reference TR 009 417 Location Ashford, Kent Country England Denomination Anglican Website Christ Church, Ashford Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 4 January 1976 Architect(s) Hubert Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1866 Completed 1910 Construction cost £4,219
(£270,000 as of 2011)Specifications Materials Ragstone with Bath stone dressings
Slate roofsAdministration Parish Christ Church,
South AshfordDeanery Ashford Archdeaconry Maidstone Diocese Canterbury Province Canterbury Clergy Vicar(s) Revd David Kirkwood Christ Church, Ashford, is in the town of Ashford, Kent, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashford, the archdeaconry of Maidstone, and the diocese of Canterbury.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was built to accommodate the growing population of the town in the middle of the 19th century, following the building of the locomotive works for the South Eastern Railway Company. In 1864 a competition was held for its design, which was won by Hubert Austin, a young architect working as an assistant to George Gilbert Scott. It was Austin's first design. In 1867 Austin was to join E. G. Paley in Lancaster, Lancashire, to form the partnership of Paley and Austin. The church was built in 1866–67. Most of the money for its construction was provided by the shareholders of the South Eastern Railway Company, and so it came to be known as "the railwayman's church".[2][3] The church cost was £4,219 (£270,000 as of 2011),[4] and its site was donated by G. Jemmett, the lord of the manor at the time.[2] The vestry was added in 1910.[3]
Architecture
Christ Church is constructed in ragstone and has Bath stone dressings. The roofs are slated. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel with a vestry and an organ chamber to the north. Towards the west end is a bell turret. The windows on the north and south sides are lancets. Those at the east and west ends have Geometric tracery. Inside the church the arcades are carried on round piers.[2] The two-manual organ was built by Bishop and Son in 1897.[5]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
- Ashford railway works
References
- ^ Christ Church, Ashford, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/south-ashford-christ-church/, retrieved 7 June 2011
- ^ a b c d "Christ Church, Ashford", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1071109, retrieved 7 June 2011
- ^ a b History, Christ Church, South Ashford, http://www.christchurchonline.org.uk/site/pages/about/history.php, retrieved 7 June 2011
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ Kent, Ashford Christ Church, Beaver Road, South Ashford, (E01594), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=E01594, retrieved 7 June 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Kent
- Diocese of Canterbury
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Kent
- Gothic Revival architecture in Kent
- Religious buildings completed in 1867
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Religious buildings completed in 1910
- Paley and Austin buildings
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