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St Laurence

Architectural Features

mid C15, restored and extended 1849 by R C Carpenter, 1853-1859 by W Slater, and 1955-1957.

Fittings: early C17 reredos, panelled with strapwork frieze cornice and enriched fluted pilasters.

South chapel with three-bay Perpendicular style screen erected 1922 as World War I monument, and iron scrolled lectern, and early C20 panelled reredos, south chapel with shelved trefoil headed piscina.

Nave with wooden pulpit, with polygonal base, branching stem and polygonal arcaded side panels with intricate wrought iron panelled balustrade.

Octagonal Perpendicular font with shields and roses, with wooden font cover of 1960.

Monuments: brasses, John Roberts of Elfords, d.1495, with Alice plus 12 children with 18 inch figures

Richard and Margaret Boys, 1572

1606, Marie Boys, 1602, Richard Austen, 1610 and Elizabeth Reynolds, with John Avelyn, gent on reverse, 1612, all simple brass inscription plates.

Fine series of ledger tablets in north chapel with one to Richard Kilburn, Kentish Historian, in Latin Cross fashioned out of wooden propellor as memorial to Captain Alwyne Lloyd, d.1917 (Royal Flying Corps).

Royal Arms of 1917, contem-porary window glass.

Crudely executed C17 wooden relief of Last Supper, and a copy of Sarto's Holy Trinity on the walls.