Church Of St Mary Magdalene

TR 24 NW DENTON AND WOOTTON CANTERBURY ROAD (east side) 1/37 Church of St Mary 22.8.62 Magdalene GV II* Parish church. C13, east end rebuilt 1909. Flint, in part rendered, with plain tiled roof,chancel, nave and west tower. Tall west tower on plinth with string course to battlements. Simple chamfered western doorway, with lancets in tower. C13 lancets throughout, with Cl9 lancet and Decorated 2 light in south nave and channel, knapped flint east end with poor C20 East window. C19 wooden porch on flint base, with wave chamfered north doorway. Interior: small plain pointed arch on simple abaci to tower, with similar chancel arch, with traces of nailhead ornament to abaci. Roof of 3 spindly crown posts. Chancel with single crown post roof, and north window recess, either a blocked doorway, or a reading desk recess, with fragments of medieval glass set in it. Fittings: all C19, with box pews, font. Brass: set in chancel north wall, to John Boys d.1543 (?), a fine armorial achievement with inscription below, in moulded stone surrounds. Monuments: Phineas Andrewes, d.1661. Black and white marble wall plaque, an aedicule with Corinthian pilaster and segmental pediment; apron draped and with skull and bases and enriched brackets. Achievement over. William Willats, d.1867. White marble wall plaque. Round headed tryptich-like panel, with Early English style arcade, and scenes from the Voyage of Life. Set in nave north wall by the pulpit is a stone cross, the lettering on it as yet undeciphered, with small marble plaque over to Katherine Warly, d.1717. (See BOE Kent II 1983, 284).

Listing NGR: TR2151847232