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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Seal

Kent

SEAL TQ5556NW CHURCH STREET 771/28/993 SEAL 10-SEP-54 (West side) CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL I Church.

Architectural Features

C13 core (S aisle arcade

S side blocked lancet), much rebuilt in the C15

early C16.

The tower was under construction in c.1520-9 (Pevsner)

Perpendicular porch with stoup, diagonal buttresses and doorway in square-headed frame with carved spandrels.

Nave has medieval crown-post roof on moulded ties on arched braces with carved posts on moulded stone corbels.

Chancel arch marked by timber wall posts and pierced traceried spandrels to the tie beam braces and a carved boss on the soffit.

Medieval Perpendicular S aisle roof with moulded tie beams with arched braces and open spandrels.

Medieval Perpendicular porch roof with curved braces and a brattished wallplate.

Plain octagonal late Perpendicular stone font with C17 ogival openwork font cover.

C.1630 timber drum pulpit with upper panels with blind perspective arches, lower panels and cornice with strapwork decoration.

Numerous monuments including c.late C14 brass (of very high quality)

late Cl6 brasses and many wall monuments, including a cartouche dated 1680 to John Chichester 'of the highest sculptural quality'(Pevsner) and five Grecian tablets to the Pratt family of 1832 by Chantrey.

A church with a C13 core but extensive Perpendicular rebuilding including a good example of a Kent tower

medieval roofs to the nave, S aisle porch and probably chancel.

Fittings include a Perpendicular font with Cl7 font cover, good Cl7 pulpit and numerous monuments, some of the best quality.