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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Bilsington

Kent

C12 nave, refenestrated C14, C12 chancel.

Architectural Features

C16 tower.

Small single western light, with Sydney Arms and 2 dates : 1590 over.

Nave with massive C19 offset buttresses, with C19 Decorated style fenestration to south and unrestored C14 windows to north with ogee and early Perpendicular tracery.

Simple arched south doorway with C17(?) plank and muntin door.

Interior: nave with western doorway to tower with some re-used C12 tooled stonework in voussoirs and blocked deeply splayed Romanesque window over south doorway.

Chancel with south-eastern lancet reveal brought low to ground, with carved head jamb stop.

C14 trefoil headed water stoup by south doorway in nave.

Fragments of C14 glass in nave north windows.

C20 reredos and hatchment (for Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Arthur Luxmore).

Seven oval prayer boards and 2 rectangular text boards in nave and Royal Arms dated 1754 over chancel arch.