Church Of St Peter

TR 06 SW LUDDENHAM + OARE CHURCH ROAD (East side)

(Oare) 2/156 Church of 24.1.67 St. Peter

GV I

Parish Church. C13, C16 and restored and spire added 1877-8 by Joseph Clarke. Flint and rubble stone with plain tiled roof and shingled spire. Chancel and nave with belfry and spire at west end, north-west vestry and south porch. West end rebuilt and dated 1877 with 2 large pinnacled buttresses, restored C13 roll moulded doorway with quatrefoil over. Relieving arch to belfry. Diagonal offset buttresses. Half-timbered south porch, C16 Perpendicular and C19 windows except single cusped light in north nave wall. Exposed quoins of nave incorporated in widened chancel walls. Lean-to vestry at north-west. Interior: no chancel arch, roof of 3 crown posts in nave, roof of 2 crown posts in chancel. C19 fittings and furniture except large Romanesque Purbeck marble font on renewed shafts. Timbered gallery at west end. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 408-9)