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St Mary

St Mary

Hinxhill

Kent

C13, C14 north chapel and aisle spire rebuilt 1797 general restoration 1881.

Architectural Features

Irregularly bonded C17 brick south porch (now vestry).

Perpendicular fenestration to nave (some C19 restoration) and ogee headed C14 windows to chancel, chapel

north aisle, with lancet windows to east and west ends of both chancel and aisle/chapel (re-used from C13).

Interior: simple C12 tower arch on imposts.

Wooden chancel arch/screen erected (and dated) 1637, with enriched bowed arched braces and traceried upper section.

Fittings: C13 sedile and trecusped piscina in chancel and ogee headed piscina or aumbrey in north chapel east wall.

C19 altar rail reredos font and lecturn.

C16 Perpendicular panelling used as wainscotting in chancel

incorporated into reading desk and pulpit Fragment of C17 painted glass in vestry.

Brass inscription in nave to Robert Gateley, d.1514.

Monument: Robert Edolph, erected 1632.

Large standing alabaster monument.

Black Corinthian columns support a broken segmental pediment with 3 arms cartouches over lifesize figures of Edolph and his Lady kneeling at a prayer desk with double arcaded background.