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St Mary

St Mary

Brabourne

Kent

Late C12 on a considerable scale, due to ownership of Horton Priory, with C13 south aisle, C14 chapel, C15 fenestration and top to tower.

Architectural Features

Three stage west tower, the top stage a C15 rebuilding in squared ragstone.

Label headed belfry openings, C19 Perpendicular style west window, and shafted C12 west doorway with roll mould and hood.

Three offset buttresses to south aisle, with raised brick eaves, restored C14 2 light with quatrefoil window.

South chapel with C14 fenestration with encircled cinquefoils over cinquefoiled lights, with hoodmoulds on carved heads.

Interior: large plain C12 tower arch with pointed C12 inner arch with moulded abaci

Large chancel arch with nook shafts and voluted capitals and abaci with carved head stops.

Reveal of C13 lancet, blocked since construction of C14 south chapel.

Two C14 segmentally headed tomb recess/through arches to south chapel, with wave mould and head stops, and integral depressed arched doorway.

Fittings: reredos and altar chancel, raised c.1600 as a memorial to the Scott family, with 5 bay arcaded reredos with Ionic pilasters and frieze and altar, with the progress of the family's Arms from 1290 to 1562.

Inscription: The memorial of the just shall be blesed but the name of the wicked shal rot.

C17 altar table with twisted legs and fillet moulded stretcher.

C17 lecturn and octagonal pulpit, or C19 in C17 style.

C20 brass chandeliers and screen to tower.

Medieval quarter-log stairs in tower.

Glass: chancel north window with original C12 floral glass, amongst the earliest surviving complete windows in the country.

Monuments: Chancel: heart shrine, c.1300.

Sir John Scott, (comptroller of the Household to Edward IV) d.1485.

South Chapel: hollow chamfered tomb recess for William Scott, who rebuilt the chapel (as Trinity Chapel) 1420-30 Small (child's?).coffin lid in floor with fleury calvary cross.

C18 plaque with brass shield and an apparently Welsh inscription on north wall, and white marble architectural wall plaque on south wall to Arthur Scott, d.1756.

Small black marble wall plaque in south aisle to William Richards, erected 1672, with Latin inscription in raised and fielded surround with scrolled and swagged cartouche and scrolled pediment.

Two lead wall plaques on south aisle and north nave walls, identical, recording the churchwardens and restoration 1700, inscribed: T W , with relief roses and horses, recording T T Thomas Webb and Thomas Thompson Brasses: In the south chapel: Sir William Scott, d.1433 (swordbearer to HV).

Large brass of a knight, feet resting on a greyhound.

Denis Harbord, d.1450.

35 inch brass of woman with flowing hair.

Sir William Scott, d.1524, knight, 26 ½ inches.

Dame Elizabeth Poynings, d.1528, 35 ½ inches.

The jousting helm of Sir William Scott, c.1510, and that of Sir Thomas Scott, late C16 survive in chancel.

Royal Arms of George II in south aisle.