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St Peter

St Peter

Whitfield

Kent

Extended C.1200.

Architectural Features

Restored C12 lancet cuts into doorhead.

Interior C8 nave and chancel, with exposed remains in south wall of C12 arcade to demolished south aisle, with round piers.

Simple tall round headed chancel arch altered 1894, with surviving round arched opening on round responds with scalloped capitals (part of south arcade now to C19 vestry) in Saxon chancel, with simple pointed arches to north aisle and second chancel Two bay arcade from nave to north aisle, C19 with double chamfered arches on round pier.

Monuments Lucy and George Stringer , large black and white wall monument as a neo- classical aedicule with oval plaque and urn over

Harriett Stringer- Latham d.1825, white wall plaque as a sarcophagus with reeded side pieces and pediment over the C13 bell said to be oldest in Kent.