St Martin

Chancel extended C13, chapel and aisles C13/14.

Tower 1507-1557 (evidence of wills), battlements 1911.

North nave wall with buttresses and exposed jambs of round headed C11 windows, now blocked, as is north door

C19 fenestration to chancel, with restored perpendicular five-light east window, with the jambs of C13 lancets.

Late.C13 two bay arcade to south aisle with round pier and octagonal responds.

South aisle with vestry at west end with blocked lancet to aisle and with massive walls and re-used timber ceiling, identified as base of C11 south-western tower.

Restored double chamfered chancel arch on octagonal corbels with carved heads.

Exposed jambs of lancet east windows, with shafts and capitals, and also exposed jambs of east end of C11 chancel, before C13 extension.

Fittings: C14 priest's door and three sedilia in chancel with cusped ogee heads, roses in cusped spandrels with rose, oak leaf and heraldic enrichments and embattled top.

C15, partly restored, with poppy head bench ends, arcaded panels to front of benches

Western range incorporates base of nave rood screen, north range with simple boarded panelling.

Misericords mainly with foliage decoration, on south with foliage and castles.

TR0736 : St Martin's Church, Aldington, Kent - Misericord

© John Salmon

South chapel with C17 arcaded panelling with mannerist pilasters, with strapwork frieze and enrichment, with a separate panel with lozenge and guilloche decorations and inscribed AN 1617 WK .

Nave with two pulpits, with panelled walls behind, C17 with strapwork, geometric panels, and foliate enrichment, that to north of two tiers, probably made up from domestic panels, and incorporating a wooden relief panel of a Pelican in her piety, said to have come from Pattison's Farmhouse, Aldington.

TR0736 : St Martin's Church, Aldington, Kent - Pulpit

© John Salmon

C12 square font bowl on five piers, with C17 wooden cover, with arcaded base with detached Ionic colonettes with modillion cornice and finial with ogee scrolled lantern with finial.

TR0736 : St Martin's Church, Aldington, Kent - Font

© John Salmon

Monuments: brasses

small inscription in south chapel to Margaret Blechynden, d.1596, John Weddcot, d.1475

19 inch brasses of armoured knight and Lady.

Glass: fragments in chancel north window.

The quality of medieval work is linked to the church's use as a chapel to the adjacent hunting lodge of the Archbishops of Canterbury , who also appointed Thomas Linacre Rector 1509 (founder of Royal College of Surgeons) and Desiderius Erasmus, briefly in 1511.