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St Peter

St Peter

Boughton Monchelsea

Kent

Possibly with late C11 or C12 core, C13, C14, C15.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roof to chancel and south transept, slate roof to rest.

C19 five- light window to nave, & to south aisle.Restored C15 two-light window with ogee-headed lights and squared head and hoodmould to north aisle.

Re-set C15 pointed-arched south doorway in shafted square-headed cavetto-moulded architrave with trefoiled spandrels and squared hoodmould.

Chancel: C13, possibly with earlier core.

Two-light C14 or C15 south-west window with 2 cinquefoil-headed lights and squared moulded hoodmould.

Tower: probably late C11 or C12, altered

partly rebuilt in C14

C15.

North aisle: rebuilt 1874-5, re-using four C15 windows.

C14 doubly-hollow-chamfered pointed west tower arch set on C19 engaged columns with scalloped capitals.

Similar east tower arch with roll-and-fillet hoodmould with carved heads to label stops, springing from engaged semi-octagonal columns with moulded capitals, and bases corbelled out from wall.

Hollow-chamfered C14 pointed north tower arch springing from engaged columns with moulded capitals and bases, set in continuous doubly-hollow- chamfered outer order.

Tall late C14 or early C15 two-light window with cinquefoil-headed lights to south side of base of tower.

Monuments: cartouche on north wall of chancel, to Barnham Powell, d.1695

Finely-carved finials above cornice, and coat of arms surmounted by small urn.

part of monument to Sir Francis Barnham, d.

1634, by Nicholas Stone.

Standing monument at west end of nave, to Sir Christopher Powell, d.

white marble figures, in Roman dress, of Sir Christopher, reclining on black sarcophagus, flanked by mother and wife.