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Archaeology. 



SAXON AND NORMAN. 



EARLY ENGLISH. 



DECORATED. 



Southfleet 



(St. Nicho 



las). 



St. Mary 

 Cray. 



St. Paul's 

 Cray. 



* 



(" Archseo- 

 logia Canti- 

 ana," vol. 

 xviii.,p. 279) 



Stone (near Referred 

 Dartf ord ) 

 (St. Mary). 



Sutton-at- 

 Hone. 



The present 

 superseded that men- 

 tioned in Domesday 

 Book. 



Nave is divided from In 

 each aisle by three 

 arches on circular pil 

 lars, & chancel arch is 

 similar. One N. window 

 of chancel is E.E. 



structure W. Tower, Nave, N. & S 

 aisles, well developed 

 chancel with chantrey 

 prob. erected 1200 

 1220. 



to in Domesday 

 Book 1066. Foundation 

 of tower arches. Roman 

 tiles in various parts 

 embedded in walls. 



E.E. door in N. wall o 

 chancel. E. E. piscina 

 in chancel. 



All present building. Walls Small vestry on 

 of flint, with chalk over 

 principal string course. 

 Date 1254-71 in chan- 

 cel. Beautifully carved 

 spandrils in chancel, 

 13th cent., the arcading 

 of which is identical with 

 that at Westminster 

 Abbey 



Walls probably E.E. 

 Rubble flint, with front 

 of porch in good squared 

 flint work. Square 



tower at W. end with 

 small circular turret, 

 some evidence of whole 

 of exterior being covered 

 with plaster-cement ; 

 considerable portion of 

 tower is so now. Carved 

 heads as dripstones to 

 all windows. E.E. cus- 

 ped piscina. 



Nave, aisles, chancel & 

 tower all decorated. E. 

 window of chancel is of 

 5 lights and has some 

 ancient stained glass. 

 Remains of decorated 

 sedilia with carvings. 



N. aisle of nave are 

 Early decorated win- 

 dows of two lights. Re- 

 mains of a screen which 

 may be Decorated. 



N. side of 



chancel. Windows in 

 W. end of nave and 

 aisles & that in W. bay 

 of S. wall, & at same 

 time tower piers were 

 re-cased. Flying buttres- 

 ses added for support 

 to E. piers of tower, in- 

 ternally spanning aisles. 



Windows in nave. 



