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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Thurnham

Kent

C12 to early C17.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

Battlemented C14 tower of 2 stages, upper stage possibly rebuilt, with angle buttresses.

South porch: early C15, on plinth.

section to west C12 or C13, section to east C14.

East end has clasping buttresses and large restored decorated east window under hood- moulds stopped with carved heads.

North chapel: circa 1603.

Interior: Blocked round-headed Norman window in west end of north wall.

C14 tower arch.

Single C15 round-headed arch to north chapel, withmoulded capitals to piers, 3 possibly C14 crown- post trusses to nave with moulded tie-beams and crown-posts Chancel roof with collar purlin but no crown-posts.

Chapel roof early C17 with moulded beam and joists.

Elaborately carved reredos in memory of Mrs. Julia Jane Hampson, d.

Octagonal font, possibly C14, decorated with 8 different emblems.

Monuments: 2 small brasses in Chapel floor

1618, who founded the chapel in honour of Sir Henry Cutt, knight, her first husband.

Monument on south wall of chancel in form of parchment hung with drapes and surmounted by shield and gadrooned vase to memory of Mariae Dering, d.

On north wall of chancel, monument with broken pediment containing plain urn, to memory of Thomas Wise, d.

Similar monument adjacent,to Thomas Burwash, d.