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St Martin of Tours

St Martin Of Tours

Guston

Kent

C12, restored late C19.

Architectural Features

Large central triple offset buttress on west wall, with timber and shingled turret and spirelet over C14 south vestry.

North porch with simple chamfered outer arch and C12 north doorway with wave and roll mould on attached shafts with 1 scalloped capital and that to west with overlapping rings.

C19 fenestration throughout except original C12 triple round headed lancet east window.

C12 tie beam roof, the area above the collar beams ceiled in.

Fittings with C19 floriate brass brackets to alter rail light 3 bay chancel screen without tracery, pulpit, font and benches, that at south west with attached poor box.

Glass in nave to Francis William Prescott d.1919, now very dark blue, purples and orange.

The broad composition contrasting with the more usual C19 glass elsewhere in the church.