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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Kingswood

Kent

Mid C13 or earlier, early C14, C15, and late C15/early C16, restored 1897-8 and 1984-5.

Architectural Features

Roughly coursed stone with plain tile roofs where visible.

West tower: C15.

2-centred arched casement-moulded west doorway with attached shaft to each side and hoodmould with carved heads as label stops.

South aisle: early C15.

One early C15 3-light traceried window each side of porch, with moulded jambs and hoodmould.

Porch: C15.

2-centred arched casement-moulded outer doorway with slender shaft each side, circumscribed quatrefoils to spandrels and squared moulded hoodmould, formerly with carved label stops.

Late C15/early C16 three-light window to south, and one to east, the former with squared top, the latter 4-centred arched, both with hoodmoulds.

North chancel chapel: C14, with C20 brick plinth.

North aisle: early C15, on moulded stone plinth.

2 early C15 three-light windows with hoodmoulds.

Interior: structure: 4-bay early C14 nave arcade of hollow-chamfered pointed arches and octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases, north arcade differently moulded from south.

Octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases, those to south similar to, but probably later than those of south aisle, those to north C14 and more finely carved than nave arcade.

Arch between north and south aisle and chapel probably early C15

evidence for more steeply pitched pre C15 lean-to roof to aisles.

Tall C15 tower arch of 3 hollow-chamfered orders with attached shaft each side.

Brackets between pendant posts and tie-beams carved with elongated trefoils.

3 medieval octagonal moulded crown posts to chancel, with hollow-chamfered collar purlin

TQ8249 : Font, Church of Ss Peter & Paul, East Sutton

Fittings: Late C13 hexagonal font with trefoiled panels, on 7 plain stone shafts, standing on moulded hexagonal base.

TQ8249 : Font, Church of Ss Peter & Paul, East Sutton

© Julian P Guffogg

Carved hexagonal early C17 wooden pulpit.

Decoration: Fragments of C14

C15 glass, and some armorial glass in south chapel.

Monuments: Monument on west wall of south aisle to the Reverend Sir John Filmer, d.1834 and wife

Grecian, in white marble on black ground, with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity in relief.

Tablet on south wall of south chapel to Richard Argall, d.1605

Monument on south wall of south chancel chapel to Margaret Randolph, d,1609

kneeling alabaster figures in relief, flanked by free-standing Corinthian columns on consoled plinth, with coffered arch, moulded frieze and cornice, shields and side- pieces.

Brass on floor of north chapel to Sir Edward Filmer, knight, d.1629

engraved with figures of Sir Edward, wife and 18 children.

Monument to Robart Filmer Esq., d.1585 in north- west corner of north chapel

Monument on north wall of north aisle to Sir Edward Filmer, d.1755

Memorial on north wall of north aisle to Beversham Filmer, d.1763