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St Mary Church of St Mary Virgin

St Mary Church Of St Mary Virgin

Lydden

Kent

C12 origin, now largely C13, restored 1866, 1868-9 and 1899.

Architectural Features

Single stage tower, the top stage removed after C16 earth- quake damage, with clasping buttresses and brick eaves cornice to low tiled spire, and blocked belfry windows.

Small single lights on ground floor with trefoil heads carved from single block, C13 south porch with chamfered outer door and roll moulded inner doorway with attached shafts, and medieval ogee-shaped door.

Two chamfered. elliptical recesses in north wall, the easternmost with a low window inset, and 2 on south wall, with crude enrichment of figures, flower ornament, attached shafts and cusping