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St Andrew

St Andrew

Tilmanstone

Kent

C12, tower C13, nave C14

Architectural Features

C15, C18 south porch.

Renewed south doorway, retains parts of C12 chip-carved tympanum.

C12 lancets survive particularly in the north nave wall, C13 lancets in chancel and buttressed south nave wall.

Renewed C15.

Perpendicular 3 light East window with small trecusped C15 lancet over.

Reveals of C12 lancets, especially on north wall, and blocked north doorway.

C14 chancel arch, double chamfered, the inner order on octagonal responds with moulded capitals.

Chancel with C14 trussed rafter roof.

C19 chancel fittings, with altar rail with twisted brass stems, pierced arcaded altar table, painted and mosaic reredos, with Christ in a central mandorla flanked by incense-swinging angels

C18 pulpit, octagonal, with plain raised and fielded panelled sides.

Font, C12, with square arcaded bowl on 5 shafts.

Royal Arms of William III, re-hung under the tower arch after restoration 1979.

Glass: 3 medieval shields and a rose in chancel north lancet, and C15 St. Andrew window in east gable lancet.

Tower window 1597 by Holiday, the rest Kempe 1896-1906.

Monuments: brass to Richard Fogg of Dane Court d.1598, plaque on south chancel wall.

C17 style wall tablet with acanthus enriched apron, with oak leaf festooned sides, scalloped frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement over.

Signed H.H. Armstead, R.A. Henry Edward Harcourt, d.1944, also in imitation C17 style, with lugged tablet, enriched with scrolls, with swan-neck pediment and cartouche, the whole enriched.