St Mary

West tower built 1638-40 for £750 by London builders, Edmund Kinsman, James Holman, John Young.

Five-bay arcades, the easternmost bay widened with complex C15 pier with attached shafts and moulded, part of alterations to accommodate now lost rood screen.

Alternate round and octagonal piers to south, all C14, western bays of north aisle with round piers C13, with C14 pier, octagonal, then C15 east bay.

Roof with arched trusses on brackets with iron tier and traces of original C14 painted decoration.

Exposed jambs of C13 lancets to north

south, and C15 south window, now infilled.

Screen to south chapel with base incorporating C14 or C15 panelling, the upper section carved as a memorial to Great War, with vine leaf frieze and ogee headed panels.

Screen to north chapel also incorporates medieval panels.

Pulpit with octagonal stone base and steps with iron and brass rails, the main box C13 in style with full relief apostles and evangelical symbols, with brass candlesticks and book rest.

Erected 1863 as a memorial to Henry Lake of Goudhurst.

Brass 12-stick chandelier presented to the church in 1722.

C19 brass lectern.

Font in nave on medieval (C15) base, with C19 bowl with evangelical symbols.

Medieval bowl in north aisle with arcading and crosses (titched at foot).

Monuments: in the north chapel: Edmond Roberts, gent, d.1627, small aedicule with arms and achievement over and Latin inscrip- tion.

Large hanging monument of quality, with coved base bearing aedicule with broken segmental pediment, with enriched scrolls within pediment, and with allegorised female figures resting on pediment, the whole flanked by obelisks on pedestals.

Within the aedicule William and his lady kneel oppsoite each other with prayer desk, their 5 sons and 4 daughters carved on the obelisk pedestals.

In the south chapel: brasses to John Bedgebury, d.1424, 39½ inches high armoured man with canopy.

Sir John Culpepper, d.1480, 25½ inches with canopy on tomb chest.

Walter and Agnes Culpepper , 25 inch armoured figure and shields, the figure a later addition of c.1520 and unidenti- fied. 'Young' Sir Alexander Culpepper, d.1599, erected 1608 by his son Sir Anthony Alabaster standing wall monument, the base with 11 boys and 5 daughters (grandchildren rather than children), supporting 3 Corinthian columns to cornice, with central scrolled aedicule over with half figure of Sir Thomas Culpepper, an old armoured man holding a skull.

In the south aisle: the important monument to 'Old' Sir Alexander Culpepper, d.1537.

In the reveal of one bay are 2 relief panels of God in Majesty, the Virgin and Child and St George and the Dragon, dated 1537 on prayer desk with Knight, Lady and children at prayer.

Anthony Fowle (of Twyssenden) d.1679, black marble wall tablet with Latin inscription, with scrolled base and cherub head.

Bathurst monuments, plain white and black tablets, and black marble ledger slab with cartouche on moulded panelled shafts, to John Bathurst, d.1697 and known as the 'Bread tomb' (because the 'dole' of bread was laid out on it), and grey marble tablet, to Edward Bathurst, d.1772, pilastered with damaged open segmental pediment.

Fragments of C15 glass in south west window.