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St James

St James

Staple

Kent

C12 origins, C14 fenestration, restored by Street 1868-69.

Architectural Features

Nave and chancel with five offset buttresses, largely C19, and C19 south porch, with C16 six panelled and ribbed door.

Chancel east window c.1300, five cinquefoiled lights under hood mould, one small lancet to chancel south wall, C14

C15 style windows elsewhere, as much Street's restorations as original.

North arcade of three bays, C15, with double chamfered arches, piers with clustered shafts, and responds with attached shafts.

C16 screen from north aisle to chapel, four bays with solid lower panels on either side of central restored door.

TR2656 : Octagonal Font, St. James The Great Church Staple

C15 font on double stepped base, octagonal bowl and stem, the bowl decorated with symbols of four evangelists alternating with demi-angels, pilgrim and the Trinity.

TR2656 : Octagonal Font, St. James The Great Church Staple

© PAUL FARMER

Ornate chandelier of brass and possibly wood in tower.

Monuments: in the chapel a good series.

Oval wall tablets to Lynch family with moulded surrounds and acanthus motifs, and to John Squire, d.1661.

John Clarke, 1691, wall tablet with draped and foliated scrolled sides, egg and tongue frieze and cornice and scrolled base with crossed olive sprigs.

In the north aisle, large white marble wall plaque to Gratianus Lynch, d.1674, with architectural surround, black marble Ionic columns and foliated scrolls with open segmental pediment and achievement, all on enriched bracketed base.

Brass: in north chapel, about two foot high brass of a civilian, early C16.