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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Marden

Kent

Circa 1200, C13, C14, C15,

Architectural Features

circa 1554.

Plain tile roofs to nave and chapels, leaded roof to north aisle.

West tower: C13 or early C14, with later belfry.

South aisle: early C14.

Two C19 windows in a C14 style to west of porch and one to east.

South porch: early C14.

Moulded pointed-arched inner doorway with broach stops and medieval door.

South chancel chapel: C14, partly rebuilt after fire of 1554.

Chancel: circa 1200 origins, restored 1868.

North chancel chapel: C15.

C15 three-light east window and two C15 two-light north windovs each with cinquefoil-headed lights, tracery of vertical bars, and moulded hoodmould.

North aisle: early C14.

one C19 in a C14 style, two C14, one with cusped cinquefoil, the other with cusped intersecting tracery, all with hoodmoulds.

Interior: structure: three-bay C14 north and south arcades to nave, one slightly earlier than the other.

South arcade has doubly hollow-chamfered pointed arches, with roll-and-fillet hoodmoulds dropping to vestigial demi-figures

octagonal columns and semi-octagonal end piers with water-holding bases and with capitals alternately moulded and carved with raised oak, ivy and water-lily leaves.

Bevelled pointed chancel arch of c.1200 springing from moulded imposts above chamfered jambs with bar and broach stops.

Two-bay chancel arcades, that to south C14 with plain and hollow-chamfered pointed arches, engaged shafts with bell capitals to ends, and octagonal column with moulded capital and base.

C15 north arcade with doubly hollow-chamfered pointed arches, octagonal column and semi-octagonal piers with concave sides and moulded capitals and bases.

Doubly plain-chamfered pointed arch between south chapel and south aisle, outer order dying into wall, inner springing from corbels, one with carved face.

Relatively low C13 or early C14 plain-chamfered pointed tower arch with broach stops and no imposts.

Fittings: moulded octagonal stone font carved with initials and date RB EM 1662.

Tall octagonal wooden font cover, probably of similar date, sides hinged to enable front four panels to open out in two leaves

Monuments: moulded pointed-arched C14 tomb recess with cinquefoiled soffit and remains of triangular pediment to east end of south wall of south chancel chapel.

Tablet on east wall of north side of nave to George Maplesden, d.1688, erected after 1755.

Stained glass by Patrick Reyntiens, 1962, to three chancel windows

north and south abstract, east with Christ in Majesty flanked by angel with trumpet and angel with lance.