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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Saltwood

Kent

Late C11 or C12, C13, C14, restored late C19.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

West Tower: C13.

Belfry windows C19 in a C13 style.

Nave: Late C11 or C12.

Restored late C11 or C12 inner doorway.

Chancel: C14.

Two C14 south windows

Reticulated C14 east window.

North Aisle: C19, with C13 origins.

Interior: Structure: C13 two-bay nave arcade of broad, lightly-chamfered pointed arches springing from chamfered imposts.

Broad pointed, C14 chancel arch with plain and hollow chamfers and attached columns with bell capitals and bases.

Double-shafted late C11 or C12 west doorway, visible from within tower, with scalloped capitals and moulded abaci.

Moulded stone corbel with carved head to each side of east window.

C15 octagonal dressed stone font with concave sides and shield.

Late C13 wooden chest with 5 panels of blank geometrical bar tracery and beasts added to end panels.

Royal Arms to north wall of north aisle, dated 1834.

Monuments: brass on chancel floor to John Verien, d.1370

half figure of a priest.

Brass, also on chancel floor, to Anne Muston, d.

1496, with angel bearing her heart.

Brass in north aisle to Thomas Brokhill, d.

1437, and wife

figures of knight and lady.