Architectural Features
The fenestration is largely C19 in Geometric and Perpendicular styles, the west window the most unrestored (C15).
Turned baluster altar rail Pulpit: C17 style, but probably early C20, octagonal with arcaded panels and strapwork frieze, with ramped rail.
A rare survivor from 1841.
Box pews, font and fittings, especially iron corona lucis all mid C19.
TR2853 : The font and west window, St Clement, Knowlton
Wooden relief carved and painted arms of Charles II, over the north door.
Hatchment in chancel with 2 military banners.
Stained glass of 1850s and 1860s throughout the church.
Monuments: in the nave, Elizabeth Peyton, d.
two C18 or late C17 white oval cartouche wall plaques in memory of Thomas Peyton, d.
1510, and John Peyton, d.
Thomas Peyton, d.1610.
Both monuments erected by Thomas Peyton jnr.
His monument in Westminster Abbey was, like this one, raised by Dame Elizabeth Shovel, the mother by previous marriage of the 2 Narborough brothers, and wife of Sir Cloudesley.
The monument at Westminster certainly, this one probably, by Grinling Gibbons.
Standing monument in grey veined marble, with a tomb chest with whole panel front of naval relief, a ship of the line being wrecked on rocks.
Opposite a similar monument of chest tomb to Sir John Narborough, died 1688, with segmental headed and scrolled plinth over to Lady Elizabeth D'Aeth, d.
On top of the Narborough monument on the south side of the chancel stands a portrait bust of his daughter, Lady Elizabeth D'Aeth, who bore 12 children before dying "in Child-bed" in 1721.
1708 exhumed from North Cray, and Elhannah D'Aeth, 1717, placed over the monument to Lady Elizabeth D'Aeth.
White wall plaque on fluted base, with half-relief carving of draped canister-shaped urn supported by an open book and Pelican in Piety, and with a weeping willow behind and above.