St Mary

chancel with C12 details, C14 chapel, restored 1855-6 by R.C.Hussey.

Reset west C12 doorway, the moulded surrounds with railhead and keel roll on attached and clasped shafts with acanthine capitals and billet moulded hood-mould.

Partially restored C15 Perpendicular fenestration except C14 bar tracery windows in south chapel

2 C13 lancets in chancel north wall with 2 blocked quatrefoils in chancel east wall.

South aisle with C14 chamfered arch to south chapel.

Chancel wall heavily battered and thicker in west bay, with 2 C13 lancets to north, and C13 roll-moulded reveal to C19 inserted east window.

Fittings: C13 trefoil-headed triple sedilia and piscina in chancel on colonnettes, deeply moulded capitals and mouldings under continuous hood mould.

Double aumbry on north chancel wall, and 4 chamfered trefoil headed recesses on carved corbels and brackets, possibly choir or musicians' stalls.

C19 box pews with brass triple candle holders, and C19 font.

TQ9656 : St Mary, Eastling, Kent - Font

© John Salmon

Late C17 wooden parish chest.

Glass: 1863 in chancel lancet by Powell and Sons.

Monuments: in chancel, wall plaque to William Wickens, d.1718.

In the south chapel, standing wall monument to Martin James, d.1592.

The whole carved on small but detailed scale. [See BOE KENT II, 1983 (p306).)