Grade I Heritage Walk: Walking to Church Of St Mary from The King’s Head — 3.9-Mile Circular via Sevington with Finberry
Church Of St Mary — a Grade I listed building 3.9 miles from The King's Head, Wye.
Church Of St Mary is a ragstone in Sevington with Finberry, 3.9 miles from The King’s Head. The NHLE entry singles out its belfry. Historic England listed it in 1957.
Walking to Church Of St Mary — 3.9 miles from Wye
Rated Moderate at 3.9 miles with about 80m of ascent. Allow around 155 minutes at a steady 3 mph pace; add 15–20 minutes for photographs at the building and a pause at a viewpoint.
Why Church Of St Mary is Grade I listed — the 1957 designation
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- Grade:
- I
- Listed:
- 1957
- Parish:
- Sevington with Finberry
- District:
- Ashford
- Statutory address:
- Church Of St Mary
- NHLE entry:
- 1233902 ↗
TR 04 SW MERSHAM SEVINGTON 3/144 Church of St. 27.11.57 Mary (formerly listed under the parish of Sevington) GV I Parish church. C12, extended C13 and C14, restored 1877 and 1936. Ragstone with plain tiled roof, with timber framed porch and shingled spire. Chancel and south chapel, nave and south aisle with south porch, western tower. Two stage tower with double offset corner buttresses. Broach spire. Lancet west window and belfry openings and restored hollow chamfered and roll moulded west doorway. Nave and aisle with single catslide roof, with lancet windows and C15 label headed Perpendi- cular windows to north nave. C16 coupled lancet windows to south chapel, with separate gabled roof. Lancets to chancel (chancel eastern bay extended eastwards note lack of galleting). Simple timber south porch with wave-chamfered south door with stoup (or earlier C12 opening). Interior: double chamfered C14 tower arch on half-octagonal responds with crude head capitals. Simple pointed western and round-headed eastern openings to south aisle. Trussed rafter and tie-beam nave roof and lean-to aisle roof Chancel stepped in, with blocked round- headed, window to south-west, with low double hollow chamfered arch to southern chapel. Eastern lancets originally with shafts (the capitals survive). Clasped purlin roof with moulded tie-beams. South chapel with door and steps to rood loft (the loft fbor falling into nave). Fittings: simple chamfered sedile and triple chamfered piscina in chancel and simple piscina in chapel. Tomb recess in south chapel, and recess in north nave wall. Octagonal font on 5 piers with C19 cover. C19 altar rails, pulpit and reading desk. Stained glass: C14 fragments in nave north-west window. Monuments: simple white and black aedicule in chapel to Lawrence Banks, d.1830, signed Andrews, Ashford. Lugged charity board in tower dated 1774. Royal Arms, early C19, in nave. (See B.O.E. Went I 1983, 519). Listing NGR: TR0476039251
Listing metadata — from the National Heritage List for England
- NHLE entry number:
- 1233902
- Heritage Category / Grade:
- Listed Building, Grade I
- First listed:
- 1957
- Capture scale:
- 1:2500
- Grid reference (NGR):
- TR 03705 40875
- BNG Easting / Northing:
- 603,705 E / 140,876 N
- Coordinates (WGS84):
- 51.130917°N, 0.910074°E
- Parish:
- Sevington with Finberry
- District:
- Ashford
- Kent Downs landscape zone:
- Brook and the Spring-Line Villages
- Distance to North Downs Way:
- 3.69 miles
- Distance from The King's Head:
- 3.88 miles
- Walk duration (round trip):
- 155 minutes
- Elevation gain:
- 80 m
- Difficulty rating:
- Moderate
Architectural features at Church Of St Mary
Keywords extracted from Historic England’s Official List Entry — each one is genuinely in the designation prose, not inferred.
The only Grade I walk in Sevington with Finberry
Buildings listed in the 1950s near Wye
| Listing | Grade | Parish | Distance from Wye | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walking to Wye Bridge from The King’s Head — 0.4-Mile Easy Stroll via North Downs Way | Grade II* | Wye with Hinxhill | 0.4 miles | 1952 |
| Walking to Spring Grove And Walled Garden Attached from The King’s Head — 0.8-Mile Easy Stroll via North Downs Way | Grade II* | Wye with Hinxhill | 0.8 miles | 1952 |
| Grade I Heritage Walk: Walking to Church Of All Saints from The King’s Head — 1.6-Mile Easy Stroll via North Downs Way | Grade I | Boughton Aluph | 1.6 miles | 1957 |
| Walking to Boughton Court from The King’s Head — 1.6-Mile Easy Stroll via North Downs Way | Grade II* | Boughton Aluph | 1.6 miles | 1952 |
| Grade I Heritage Walk: Walking to Church Of St Mary from The King’s Head — 1.7-Mile Easy Stroll via Brook | Grade I | Brook | 1.7 miles | 1957 |
The landscape around Church Of St Mary — Brook and the Spring-Line Villages
South of the North Downs escarpment, the land around Brook and the adjacent parishes is a quiet band of spring-line settlement where chalk meets gault clay. The villages grew where water came to the surface, and each church in this belt — many Grade I listed and of Norman or earlier origin — occupies one of those spring-heads. Between them the land is a patchwork of sheep pasture, small fields of winter cereals, and hedgerow-enclosed paddocks of yew, hawthorn and blackthorn. The combination of intact medieval churches, surviving ancient hedgerows, and the dramatic backdrop of the downs above is a landscape character that has scarcely changed in 400 years.
Pubs within 3 miles of Church Of St Mary
| Pub | Distance from route | Address | Postcode | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Honest Miller open_in_new | 2.4 miles | Brook, Ashford, TN25 5PF | TN25 5PF | Ashford |
Plan your visit
Every walk on this site starts and finishes at The King’s Head — Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5EA.
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