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St Mary

St Mary

Hadlow

Kent

Saxo-Norman origins, much of the fabric from the late C12 or C13, partly rebuilt and extensively refurbished in the C19

Architectural Features

Chancel roof is slate, nave and aisle roof are red tile with scallop-tile bands, and tower is shingled.

Tower has Saxo-Norman work.

Chancel arch, south wall of nave and top of the tower are late C12 or C13.

Late C12/early C13 lancets in north and south walls.

It contains a very good oak plank door, panelled with studded coverstrips and dated 1637 with the initials WB and ES, and good ironwork.

Left window has Perpendicular tracery, others are Decorated with hoodmoulds and right one has label stops carved as human heads.

gabled with rows of trefoil-headed lights each side complete with their original leaded glass.

C13 south doorway is blocked but two-centred arch with moulded surround is exposed.

Interior: Saxo-Norman tower arch, round head on plain imposts.

Late C12/early C13 chancel arch is two-centred with double arch ring on simple moulded imposts.

Chancel has a boarded angled vault with coverstrips and is painted with Tudor roses, stars and the like.

Aisle roof carried on arch-braced trusses springing from plain stone corbels.The MacGeagh Chapel at the east end of the aisle has ornate carved oak screens in Gothic style on three sides, made in 1926.

Floor is mostly carpeted but flagstones show in the chancel and red and black tiles in the nave.

Fittings and Furniture: C19 Gothic reredos of four slate prayer boards in stone frame with carved spandrels and moulded hoods.

In front is a carved oak crucifixion carving.

It was formerly on the altar of 1885 with richly carved front in Gothic style which now sits in the MacGeagh Chapel.

Altar rail now between nave and chancel, oak rail on brass standards with foliate brackets.

C19 Gothic pulpit, oak octagonal drum on stone base

brass lectern and C20 chairs in nave.

C19 stone font has octagonal bowl carved with cusped panels, moulded base and octagonal stem on chamfered plinth.

Made of oak, it is said to be the chair of the C16 Bishop Coverdale of Exeter and although the carving is magnificent it seems the chair was put together in its present form in the C19.

Memorials: apart from a couple of plain brass plaques memorials are confined to the walls of the chancel.

Carved stone and marble featuring a kneeling man and woman at prayer facing each other over a prayer desk.

Painted arms of George II in nowy headed frame over chancel arch and various C18 and C19 heraldic hatchments.

C19 stained glass in the chancel, C20 stained glass in the nave.