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St. Thomas a Becket and mounting block attached

St. Thomas A Becket And Mounting Block Attached

Snargate

Kent

TQ 967 265 5/118 SNARGATE FAIRFIELD Church of St. Thomas a Becket

Architectural Features

mounting block attached 9.6.59 I Parish church C15, possibly on earlier foundations with C18 fittings.

Timber framed, clad 1912-13 in chequered red and grey brick with thin tiles to corbels (possibly replacing C18 brick-work).

East end of nave tile-hung above chancel, east end of chancel weatherboarded above wall-plate.

Plain tile roofs.

Nave and chancel roofs gabled, chancel with decorative, possibly medieval, barge-boards.

Leaded rectangular casement windows throughout church, except chancel east window which contains small quantity of stained glass

Boarded outer and inner doors to porch, the former with thin tiles to head of architrave.

Half bay to west end of nave, beneath bell turret, enclosed to north and south with close-studded partitions, each with door to east, leaving central area open to west gable end to contain font.

Fittings: Heptagonal ragstone font on circular stone base with heptagonal plinth and base

possibly C15, or possibly 1660s Altar rails: early C18 balusters with plain handrail

C18 three-decker pulpit, said to be the only one surviving in Kent.

Reference to a timber-framed church on the site, in poor condition, 1294 Referred to by Hasted as built of brick and seeming to be "but of very modern date.." (Hasted).