Church Of St Andrew

TR 24 NE SHEPERDSWELL & COLDRED THE GREEN (east side) 2/104 Church of St. Andrew GV II Parish Church. 1863 by Benjamin Ferrey. Flint with Bath stone and with plain tiled roof. Canted apsidal chancel, nave and north and south chapels. Paired lancets and plate tracery throughout, with lancets, offset buttresses and corbel table to banded tiled roof in apse. Interior: roof trusses supported on carved head corbels. Continuous double wave moulded chancel arch, with inner chamfered arch on black marble attached shafts. Contemporary fittings. Glass in nave south window by Kempe, 1900. Monuments (all reset from earlier church). Ann Petit, d.1676. Black marble wall plaque with pediment; enriched with foliage and wreaths. William Merryweather, d.1702, and family. Large black and white wall plaque in south chapel in form of double tablet with bolection moulded surround enriched with acanthus, with central cartouche and dentil cornice over. Four more plaques to the family set below. John Lownde, d.1754. Wall plaque on nave south wall, in white marble with pediment, scrolled sides and bracketted apron. Ann Elizabeth Frederick, d.1805, wall plaque on nave north wall, in white marble with grey obelisk shaped background with burning lamp carved over. Before 1863 was a simple 2 cell Romanesque church, possibly that mentioned in Domesday. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 460; Church Guide, 1963).

Listing NGR: TR2619247815