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St Mary's is a parish church in Lenham, Kent begun in the 12th century with additions in the next three centuries. It is a Grade I listed building. ==Structure== The church was built in several phases and is constructed of local rag-stone and flint with a plain-tiled pitched roof to each section. The tower, built of randomly coursed rag-stone, was constructed in the 15th century and comprises three stages with buttressed corners and a stair turret on the north-east corner. The tower parapet and turret are battlemented and a string course above the third stage belfry windows incorporates gargoyles. The west face of the tower features a large, three-lighted window above the west door.〔 The nave and chancel were started in the 12th century and are built mostly with random flint walls with some stone elements. The south side of the nave has three arched three-lighted perpendicular style windows. The chancel has a restored three-lighted perpendicular window and two lancet windows with a third window that was formerly a lancet, but has been modified with a flat top. The east end of the chancel was rebuilt in 1867 of knapped flint and features a tall quatrefoiled three-lighted window.〔 The north side of the nave is flanked with the 14th- and 15th-century north aisle constructed of knapped flint with dressed stone at the, older, eastern end and coursed rag-stone at the western end. The north wall has one perpendicular three-lighted window and two reticulated three-lighted windows with a similar fourth window in the west end. A rood loft stair tower at the east end of the aisle wall abuts the wall of the north chapel which is constructed of uncoursed flints and is probably of Norman. The chapel, which is lower than the aisle, includes a three-lighted reticulated window similar to those of the aisle.〔 Abutting the north chapel and the chancel at the east end of the church is the 15th-century vestry. Lower than both the chapel and the chancel, it is built of rag-stone blocks with flints above. The north and east walls each have two-lighted flat-topped perpendicular windows. The vestry door is on the north side. On the north side of the aisle, the north porch is 15th-century with a timber-studded gable.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Mary's Church, Lenham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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