St Paulinus

S aisle added late C12 or early C13, and nave N side preserves evidence for a former chapel of the early C12 and a former N aisle of c1200

W tower late C12 or early C13

Some C15 windows, and roof partially of this date

Top of tower is C17

In the N nave wall is the remains of a small C11 window, cut by the former N arcade, with the head turned in brick

C15 windows of two lights with square heads and two trefoiled lights are inset into the blocking of the arches, and there is a small lancet to the E of the arcade

An early C12 blocked round arch in the W wall of the N chapel is the remains of a former aisle or porticus chapel that was subsequently incorporated into the N aisle and then demolished with it

The NE quoin of the N chapel is made of Roman tile, and the E gable has irregular stone banding and brick along the gable edges

The NW corner of the nave has a brick quoin, probably late C17 and contemporary with those on the tower

The S aisle W window has late C13-style Geometric tracery, heavily or entirely renewed in the C19

The S windows, also mostly C19, are C15 in style with two lights in square heads

The chancel E window is C16 in style and has a very depressed head with three uncusped lights

Two stage W tower with a shingled broach spire, the lower part c1200, the upper part rebuilt or restored in the late C17

C17 brick buttresses on the lower stage and C17 quoins on the upper stage, with a stone string course separating the stages

There are narrow lancets in the N and S walls of the lower stage, and late C17 round headed windows with brick dressings in the upper stage

The eastern bay is late C12 and has a flattened roll on the soffit of the arch and lively capitals with acanthus leaves and carved heads

The head of a blocked C11 window is visible above the former arcade at the E end, and the narrow rood loft door opens internally above the E end of the S arcade

above it is a two-light C15 style opening

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES There is a C13 coffin lid with a foliated cross in the S chapel, and one late C19 monument

A church is mentioned in the Doomsday book of 1086, and the present structure was built in the C11

In the early C12 a N nave chapel was added to the W end of the N chancel porticus, the arch into which is still visible externally

The eastern bay of the S aisle was added in the late C12 and a few years later c1200 the remaining two bays of the S aisle were added

A two bay N aisle which incorporated or continued the N nave chapel was added at this time, and the W tower is also late C12 or early C13

The chancel was extended eastwards in the C13

The chancel arch was removed at an unknown, presumably medieval date, and the aisle windows were redone in the late C15

The top of the tower was remodelled and buttresses added in the C17, and perhaps also at this time the N aisle was demolished, the arches blocked, and the former aisle windows reset in the blocking

There was further work after a fire in 1968, and a C13 stiff-leaf capital is said to have been found during the restoration

The former font, a polygonal example of the C15, is now in St Martin, Chelsfield (Bromley, GL), and the good C19 lectern with a pelican in her piety is in St Mary, St Mary Cray