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St Eanswith

St Eanswith

Brenzett

Kent

Late C11 or C12, C13, C14, C16 and C18, restored 1826, 1876, 1902 and 1984.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roof, with wood shingles to spire.

Nave: late C11 or C12, extended to west in C14, 2 west buttresses.

South-west aisle: C14 integral with west end of nave.

One window either side of porch, each 2-light in C14 style with name of churchwarden inscribed under hoodmould and date 1826.

Moulded wood cornice to inside with oak leaves carved on chamfer stops.

Chancel: late C11 or C12, largely rebuilt in 1902.

2-light C14 south window with renewed head and hoodmould.

North chapel: C13.

North aisle: C13, extended to west by one bay in C14.

2 east bays C13 with chamfered pointed arches, and piers with undercut moulded impost string and chamfer-stops to base.

Chancel arch pointed, chamfered to east and double-chamfered to west, added above probably re-set Norman jambs with zig-zag moulding to outer order.

West tower: timber framed, probably of C14 origin, altered in C19 and reconstructed 1902

Nave has moulded medieval cornice and two C16 tie-beams.

C18 pulpit with fielded panels.

Royal arms of 1780, north wall of nave.

Stained glass to east window by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, 1874.

Monument: in north chapel to John Fagge d.1639, and John Fagge his son, d.1646, errected after 1646.Two reclining alabaster figures on white stone chest with black marble plinth, lid and panel.