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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Lynsted

Kent

C14 with C13 features

Architectural Features

chancel rebuilt C16.

C16 uncusped Perpendicular of 15 lights

north chapel east window C15 three-light Perpendicular.

North chapel with C16 fenestration, in east bay, added to earlier west bay, north aisle with C14

C15 traceried lights and projecting square external vice, and blocked north doorway, round headed oncushion capitals.

Interior: 3 bay double chamfered arcade on octagonal piers, north and south, of different C14

C15 dates Blocked arch to tower at north west end.

Brass chandelier dated 1686.

Brasses: Elizabeth Roper, d.1567, 2 foot figure

John Worley, d.1621, 2 foot figures.

Monuments: in the south, or Roper chapel.

Sir John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham, d.1618, painted alabaster with stiff recumbent knight with his Lady on a marble sarcophagus .

Lord Christopher Roper, d.1622.

One of Epiphanius Evesham's major monuments.

Plaster figures of reclining and dying knight draped with his ermine cloak, with his kneeling and mourning wife behind him.

He lies on a sarcophagus with central inscription flanked by carved panels of 2 sons, their backs turned to their hounds and hawks, and 5 daughters and grand- daughters.

North chapel, or Huggeson chapel: Catherine Drurye (née Finche) d.1601.

Alabaster hanging monument with kneeling couple facing each other, children behind, with bracketted base.

John Huggeson d.1634, kneeling figures on coved base, Corinthan columns, broken segmental pediment with segmental pediment thrusting through it.

Josiah Huggeson, d.1639.

James Huggeson, d.1646.

Moulded standing around figures.

Rudolph Weckerlin, d.1667, black draped wall plaque, with putti on bracketted base and broken segmental pediment on Corinthian capitals.