Architectural Features
extended C13, restored with rebuilt west tower and vestry 1881 Ragstone with plain tiled roof
Single stage tower, the lower stage at least genuine C11, with C19 details (shafted and zig-zag moulded doorway, coupled belfry orates and parapet on corbel table).
Chancel with east wall largely rebuilt, with C19 triple lancet East window, the head of C11 round headed window over,
C15 south window, with short projecting C19 south vestry.
North chapel with C19 3 light East window, with plaque below recording Peter Holloway, d.1644, servant to Sir Edward Scott.
Three bay north arcade c.1200, with simple chamfered arches on abaci with nook shafts.
Chancel with plain arch to north chapel with fragment of carved decoration, C19 roll moulded door to south vestry, plastered ceiling.
The head of the C11 round headed East window composition is visible North chapel with hacked off rood stair and doorways, square headed north door and roof of 2 crown posts on chamfered tie beams.
The nave with C17 strapwork panelling, the pattern for that on the sanctuary.
Pulpit, with surrounding panelling, dated 1615, but inserted c.1890 and said to be from the demolished Scotts Hall.
TR0739 : Smeeth, St. Mary's Church: Jacobean pulpit (detail)
Pulpit on columnar stem, with bolection moulded base with ribband decoration and fluted and reeded panels, with anthemion frieze to arcaded upper panels with strapwork, modillion and egg and tongue cornices.
Glass: C16 continental roundel in chapel east window
the Passeley Arms in north chapel, and C14 head.
Priscilla and Mary Scott, d.1648 and 1652, erected 1654.
Wall monument in black and white marble, with scrolled pediment on pilaster, with inscription plaques in enriched brackets with draped skulls.
The Central arcaded panel with 2 frontal figures leaning disconsolately on central prayer desk.
Loftie memorial, over the chancel arch, to Paul Loftie, d.1703 and family
On nave west wall are 2 C17 wooden plaques, again taken from Scott's Hall, both with double scalloped arches, with pendants and Arms over.
The left hand panel with date 1461, - the Bedingfield Arms and initials E.B., the right hand panel with date 1429, the Scott Arms and initial W.S. Former chapel of Aldington, St. Martin.