Saint Mary

C12, chancel

transepts C13.

Flint, rubble, some re-used Roman brick and Caen stone dressings.

Renewed C15 and C19 Perpendicular style tracery.

Also double thickness with blocked Norman windows are the westermost bays of the nave arcades-signs of late C12 rebuilding of the original church.

Two eastern bays and north arcade C 1180.

Choir stalls, dateable 1401-19 (the name of John Curteys, rector at those dates appears on one stall).

Carved misericords and arm rests, 2 rows of 4 to the south, 10 to the north.

Font and cover: C15, octagonal on moulded base.

Minster Abbey in Thanet was one of England's first monastic foundations. The big church now is the Norman church St Mary the Virgin. www.minster-in-thanet.org.uk

© Colin Smith

Glass: East window by Willement, 1861, good quality work.

Monuments: C13 tomb chest in north transept with trelobed arcading and incised cross, set in wall recess with roll and beaded hood mould.

Thomas Paramour d.1621.

Hanging wall monument in north aisle of alabaster with black marble plaque and figures.

The Mother Church of Thanet and an Anglo-Saxon Minster Church.