St Peter And St Paul

The chancel was rebuilt in the C13

The arcades are C14 although it is unclear if they replaced earlier arcades or if the aisle and chapel were also added at this date

MATERIALS: Flint rubble with stone dressings, tile roofs, shingled spire

One small late Anglo-Saxon or Norman window with a monolithic head survives in the nave N wall to the W of the aisle, and there is a similar window in the western part of the S nave wall

Both the N aisle and the S chancel chapel have clasping buttresses, a typically early feature, but they are both wider than was common for early aisles, and they have 14 windows, making it likely that they were built or rebuilt in the C14

There is a small C14 window or squint set low in the aisle N wall towards the W end

INTERIOR The long, tall, narrow nave is typically Anglo-Saxon in proportion

The early C13 chancel arch is very tall, and has a pointed head with two chamfered orders

A blocked opening over the chancel arch was a door into an upper chamber over the chancel by the late middle ages, but may be Anglo-Saxon in origin

The tower arch is also early C13 and has a hood mould

The early C14 2-bay nave N arcade is of 2 chamfered orders with a hood mould on polygonal piers with moulded capitals

The 2-bay chancel S arcade is also C14

The octagonal font is C15 and has quatrefoils with shields on each face

Late C19 polygonal oak pulpit, the gift of Edward Augustus Rucker of Cudham Hall

Oak lectern given by the Worsleys of Cudham Hall in 1878

Brass of Alys Waleys, d. 1503

In the S chapel, wall paintings of Peace and Fruitfulness, c.1920 as a war memorial

HISTORY Cudham church is in the Domesday book, and the long, narrow nave almost certainly dates to the pre-Conquest or early Norman period

The chancel and chancel arch were rebuilt and extended in the C13, and the church was very substantially remodelled in the C14, and there was further work in the later middle ages

It was given to the nuns of Kilburn in the mid C14

It was restored in the C19, and as was the case in many parish churches, this work removed all traces of C17 and C18 alterations