Former Church Of St Michael

early C17, altered in C18, C19 and C20.

Walls of Kentish ragstone rubble and red brick in English bond, with dressings of limestone, roofed with handmade red clay tiles.

S wall of Nave and S porch late C14.

Most of N wall rebuilt 1618, W wall refaced in C18.

8 brick buttresses of various dates, C17 to C19.

it has a contemporary window of 4 round-headed lights in a square head, the mullions restored, and to W of it a C20 doorway in a C17 aperture, with 4-centred rear-arch.

At the W end of this wall about 2 metres of C14 rubble walling remains.

The south wall is mainly late C14, incorporating a fragment of late C13 construction E of the S doorway.

The eastern is late C14, of 2 cinquefoiled lights with recessed spandrels in a square head, with a moulded label

The western, similar originally, has been blocked and reduced in the C17 to a simple chamfered loop.

Between them is the late C14 S doorway with jambs and 2-centred arch chamfered in 2 orders.

The SW corner is integrated with the buttress, early C17.

The nave roof is 7-canted, possibly contemporary with the late C14 structure, with 2 later tiebeams with different mouldings.

The S porch has a late C14 outer archway with hollow-chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch

the upper part is repaired with late C16 brick.

There is a late C14 stoup with hollow-chamfered jambs and 2-centred head, the bowl partly destroyed.

The roof of the porch is late C16, in 2 bays, of clasped purlin construction with knees to the central collar.

There are inscriptions on stones in the N wall of the Nave (1) 'Mathew Bets and Robert Pierc mad this wall 1618' and (2) 'Mathew Drakes and Edmund Caitmur church wardenes when this wall was built 1618 IRIX'.

There are indents (1) of man and 2 wives, c.1450, and (2) of man and wife, c.1440. , 1979.