Architectural Features
INTERIOR: The eastern three bays of the N arcade are late C12 and have square, scalloped capitals on alternating octagonal and round piers.
The other three bays of the N arcade were added by Butterfield in the C19 in a late C13 style with round piers with moulded capitals and bases.
Blocked C12 window in the E wall of the S chapel, and a squint between the chapel and the chancel.
Massive C19 stone pulpit and font, the latter an unusual design with heavy facets, both probably 1850-2.
Some good C19 and early C20 glass.
Monuments include a large wall tablet for Sir John Bentley, Vice-Admiral of the White, d.
HISTORY: A church at Buckland is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086, although there is no obvious surviving fabric of this date.
The double-square plan of the original nave suggests that the present church was built in the early C12.
The N aisle was added in the late C12, and there was probably also a S aisle and S chancel chapel by this date as there is a blocked C12 window in the E end of the S aisle.
Newman, J., Buildings of England: North-East and East Kent , 284 REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of St Andrew, Buckland, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Parish church with late C12 arcade and evidence for other C12 fabric. * Largely rebuilt in the C19 in two phases, by F R Wilson in 1850-2, and W Butterfield in 1878-80. * Fine Victorian gothic metal screen. * Very characteristic Butterfield font.