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All Saints

All Saints

West Stourmouth

Kent

Main fabric Saxon, altered late C12 with C14

Architectural Features

C15 fenestration.

West tower with 2 massive offset C17 brick buttresses, enclosing a boarded door

porch, with C15 2 light window and roundel over.

South aisle with brick parapet, 3 two-light ogee headed C14 windows, and gabled south porch with hollow chamfered doorway and strap-hinged door standing proud of door- way.

South arcade of 4 chamfered arches on 2 octagonal and 1 round pier, with crockets and upright leaves, some oak leaf-enrichment, and spurred and moulded bases, all based on late C12 work at Christ Church, Canterbury.

Fittings: chancel with dado panelling with built in elliptically headed piscina end choir stalls (6 to north, 6 to south), C17.

Pulpit C17, octagonal, with 2 panels on each face, guilloche decoration on arrises, and double hinged door.

Box pews, with beaded panelled sides, and 4 painted inscription boards in nave also C17, C19 pews at rear of nave incorporating and reproducing the ogee headed tracery of the road screen upper panels.

Brass: in chancel, Thomas Mareys, d.1472.

Two foot high figure of priest with 1 mutilated shield remaining.

Glass: fragments of C15 glass in chancel south window.