Church Of St Pancras

The Church of St. Pancras is a parish church with Saxon origins, extensively altered in the 11th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Further restoration occurred in 1866, 1890, and 1923. The church is largely constructed of coursed flint, occasionally laid in a herringbone pattern, with rendered chancel south and east walls and a rendered nave north wall. The roof is tiled and banded. It comprises a chancel and nave, a north vestry, a south porch and a western bellcote.

Saxon features include single, splayed windows with heads carved from single stones in the west wall, along with a small roundel above, and windows in the nave and chancel north walls. Flint quoins are present, some replaced with ashlar blocks. There are two 14th-century windows in the nave and a two-light 15th-century window in the chancel south wall. A decorated style window was inserted in the east wall during the 19th century. The south porch, dated 1890, is an arcaded wooden structure on a flint base, incorporating a simple chamfered 14th-century doorway, possibly with its original door, and a fragment of earlier zig-zag moulding above. The north vestry, also of 1890, features a double lancet window, a chimney and a reset medieval dedication cross. The west bell turret, originally 14th century, was rebuilt in the early 20th century.

Inside, the nave has a roof with three simple crown posts, while the chancel has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof. A curious rectangular opening connects the north door to the vestry. The chancel is stepped, with no arch to the nave. The east window reveal has a chamfered elliptical head extending to floor level, containing a 19th-century window. Fittings are largely 19th century, including aumbrey in the nave north wall, a simple twisted baluster altar rail with fleur-de-lys brackets, cast iron lamp brackets and wrought iron candle brackets in the chancel, bench piers, a pulpit and an octagonal font. A 14th-century bell was removed from the bellcote in 1939. A brass inscription on the chancel south wall commemorates William Fyntch, who died in 1615. A monument is dedicated to Edward Pettit, Vicar of Sheperdswell and Coldred (a combined living from 1584 to 1910). This monument features an oval wall plaque within a bolection moulded panel, with a broken pediment, cartouche above and a winged death's head and cartouches on the apron. The church is notable as one of only two dedications to St. Pancras in Kent, the other being in the early Saxon Church of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.

The church sits within an earthwork of indeterminate, but potentially Roman, date.