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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Godmersham

Kent

C11 tower, C12 nave

Architectural Features

chancel, chancel extended C13.

Some C14

C15 windows and fittings, south transept, south aisle, south porch and general restoration by William Butterfield, 1864-6.

Flint and rubble, part plastered, with ashlar and rough dressed quoins and dressings, and plain tile roofs.

East wall part rendered in plaster painted as flint, with 2 dragonal offset buttresses in brick and flint, and C13 triple lancet east window.

Decorated window of 2 lights with sexfoil in head to west, and central blocked C15 doorway, 4 centred arch, double hollow chamfer and drip mould.

Chancel,with hollow chamfered reveal to mullion and transomed 4 light and traceried C15 Perpendicular opening to south-east organ room.

Octagonal font also by Butterfield date.C12 stone relief of Archbishop Becket on chancel south wall, under canopy with colonettes.

Monuments: south aisle.

Glass in south west and east window, by Gibbs, 1866-7, those to west in memory of Edward Knight and wife Elizabeth.