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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Yalding

Kent

C13, early C14

Architectural Features

C15, restored in C19 and C20.

Plain tile roofs to porches and chancel, slate roofs to nave and transepts, lead roof to north aisle, south aisle not visible.

West tower: C13.

Short C14 or C15 south- west angle buttresses.

Circular C13 south-east stair turret rising above tower parapet, with moulded stone cornice, and leaded onion dome with weathervane dated 1734.

South aisle: early C14, probably re-faced at a later date.

C14 west window with moulded jambs, two trefoil-headed lights, encircled cinquefoil, and scroll-moulded hoodmould with shaped label stops.

Two restored C15 three-light pointed-arched traceried south windows, flanking porch.

South porch: C14.

South transept: early C14.

Two restored C14 two-light east windows similar to west window of south aisle, but with moulded mullions and tracery.

Chancel: C13.

Low-set C15 two-light south-west window with moulded jambs, cinquefoil-headed lights and squared moulded hoodmould, and with east jamb of blocked window (probably a lancet) above it.

Low moulded pointed-arched C14 or C15 stone doorway under the extant west lancet.

North elevation has high chamfered stone string, interrupted towards east end by C18 memorial tablet, illegible at time of re-survey, with acanthus consoles, lightly-moulded plinth, and eared semi-circular head with moulded cornice.

Blocked pointed-arched lancet with plain-chamfered architrave to west of centre, partly cut into by C14 or early C15 two-light window with cinquefoil- headed lights and triangular head.

North transept: early C14.

Two evenly-spaced early C14 two-light east windows similar to east windows of south transept.

North aisle: early C14, possibly with C13 origins,

possibly refaced in C15 or later.

Two C15 windows flanking porch, each with three cinquefoil-headed lights, tracery of vertical bars and moulded hood- mould.

Two-light early C14 window, similar to that in south aisle, to section of aisle under tower, and another to west gable end.

North porch: C14.

Interior: structure: four-bay C14 north and south arcades to nave, with doubly hollow-chamfered pointed arches and octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases.

Moulded early C14 ogee-headed niche with cushion stops, above string course to east wall of south transept.

Quarry-tile floor with patterned border, to length of centre of nave.

Monuments: memorial on south wall of nave at east end to Jane Akers, d.1804

oval inscription panel on rectangular black marble ground, with white marble cornice, and obelisk bearing relief of angel carrying child.

chest panelled with pointed trefoil- headed arches, half recessed under broad rounded arch with split cusping, squared spandrels with shields, and one upright of a panelled outer architrave with demi-figure to base.

Monument on north wall of chancel to Ambrose Warde, d.1637

probably erected after 1656.

Full figures of kneeling man and wife, outwardly inclined, with slanted shield behind each, and another above them to centre, all set within festooned round-headed recess flanked by corinthian. columns.

South-west chancel window engraved with memorial to Edmund Blunden.