Architectural Features
Fragments of herringbone flint and flint quoins in chancel are remains of earlier (Anglo-Saxon?) church
Western doorway with triangular gable, with rings of carved voussoirs, with embattled moulding, nail head, rope, intersecting arches, concentric circles, with triple arcaded seated figures at springing and apex of arch, all crudely carved.
Late C12 north doorway with zigzag and dogtooth moulding and rope twist and stylised flowers.
Double rebated with nook shafts with scallops and carved heads.
Chancel with roll moulded C13 south door.
Interior: large late C12 tower arch, double chamfered and pointed, on round responds with water-holding bases and scalloped capitals.
Four bay arcades, alternating round and Composite piers, with zigzag order and embattled surrounds on moulded abaci with scalloped capitals and occasional carved head.
South aisle east window roll moulded C12, north aisle east window with triple lancets, otherwise C19.
RV church was a possession of St. Martin's Priory, Dover, and rebuilt on lavish scale c.1150 by that foundation.
'A complete Norman church on a noble scale, probably built c.1140 after the refoundation of St Martin's Priory, Dover, to which the church belonged' Newman/Pevsner 2013. Seen here in 1967.