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{|style="width:100%; border:0px; text-align:left" |-valign="top" | There are 27 scheduled monuments in Maidstone, Kent, England. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is an archaeological site or historic building of "national importance" that has been given protection against unauthorised change by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. They are also referred to as scheduled ancient monuments. There are about 19,700 scheduled monument entries on the list and more than one site can be included in a single entry. While a scheduled monument can also be recognised as a listed building, English Heritage considers listed building status as a better way of protecting buildings than scheduled monument status.〔 If a monument is considered by English Heritage to "no longer merit scheduling" it can be removed from the schedule. The borough of Maidstone is a local government district in the English county of Kent. The Maidstone district covers a largely rural area of between the North Downs and the Weald with the town of Maidstone, the county town of Kent, in the north-west. It has a population of approximately 150,000. The monuments range in date from a neolithic standing stone to a tiny 18th-century mortuary, but the majority are medieval. Although mostly reduced to ruins and earthworks, the district contains the remains of four castles and five moated manor houses that are scheduled monuments. A number of monuments are buildings of ecclesiastical origin including an abbey, a priory and two tithe barns. The buildings associated with the former College of All Saints and the Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone town centre form the best preserved group of scheduled monuments. Seven medieval bridges over the River Medway and its tributaries are also included. ==Monuments== | |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of scheduled monuments in Maidstone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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