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Tilmanstone

Kent

C12 in origin, with mortuary chapels added C.1697 and C.1712.

Architectural Features

Lancet fenestration throughout main body of church only 1 in south chancel of C12 origin with C15 style 2 light windows in chapels and 1 in north nave wall, possibly original.

Chancel with arches to north and south chapels, and remains of genuine C12

C13 window surrounds.

Painted and mosaic reredos with marble triptych, arcaded altar tables and C17 pierced wooden rail with raised and fielded side pieces and pilastered principal posts.

Two hatchments in north chapel, 1 in south chapel, and tilting helms in each, with pair of gloves in north chapel.

Monuments.

In the South Chapel: Sir Edward Monins, d.1602, and family, erected before 1642.

Peregrine and Susan Bertie, c.1697.

As Hasted remarked, the figures are "made all out of proportion and conspicuously absurd." The inscription hints at "barbarous and horrid murder." North Chapel: Sir Henry Furnese, d.1712.

This free standing monument of 4 kinds of marble fills the entire chapel.