St Margaret

N aisle early C14, C15 roof, tower c1470

MATERIALS: flint, partly rendered, and limestone dressings, tile-hung nave and aisle gables and Kentish ragstone rubble tower

3-light N side has two C19 1-light windows with an altered C16 2-light W window with flat 2-centre arch.

S side has a central buttress with an early C13 lancet to the right

C14 2-light windows either side,

a left-hand paired C16 window.

Wider nave and aisles have tile-hung E gables, that to the nave with an 2-light C14 window

the N aisle is 4-bays with a C19 gabled porch with 2-centre arched doorway with hood mould and small 2-light side windows in a flat-headed frame, to an inner door with a fine C14 studded door

left-hand windows divided by a buttress, C16 shallow 2-centre arched left-hand window and 2-centre arched C19 windows either side of the porch.

INTERIOR: chancel has an early C13 4-bay arcade with keeled shafts, interrupted by a sedilia with 3 gables and a small piscina

N arcade has an E C13 arch and 2 wider late C13 arches, with a good late C15 parclose with carved leafs to spandrels over 4-centre arches.

Early C14 5-bay nave arcade has octagonal shafts, with a rood loft opening below the rood beam, and 3 tie beams with crown posts and diagonal braces and moulded wall plates

At the E end 2 bays of fine late C15 painted panels with sunbursts, Tudor roses repainted in Lancastrian white.

In the S wall is a fragment of wall painting with a 1335 consecration cross.

MEMORIALS: chancel E end: wall memorial, painted alabaster of kneeling couple within a flattened arch with pilasters and an open pediment with cartouche, and a reclining figure beneath, John Norreys d.1627.

In the E bay is a Perpendicular chest tomb to Thomas Norreys d.1624, painted limestone top with re-set panelled sides.

In the chapel NE corner a good marble statue of Nicholas Tufton, Earl of Thanet, d.1679, standing on a plinth in Roman armour, and flanking oval panels with family history.

In the N wall, a seated figure of George Tufton d.1650 with a Latin inscription.

STAINED GLASS: nave SE window by Hardman, 1871.

FITTINGS: a fine C14 parish chest has 9 panels with trefoil heads and blind tracery, 2 cusped panels on top.

C19 octagonal font, pulpit and pews.

HISTORY: Pevsner reports further wall paintings overpainted, a Last Judgement and C15 St Christopher over a C14 St Christopher.