SHOLDEN LONDON ROAD TR 35 SE (North side) 5/81 Church of St. Nicholas 11.10.63 GV II* Parish church. C13 with C14 fenestration and tower, C17 porch, all heavily restored late C19. Knapped flint and plain tiled roof. Nave and chancel north porch and west tower. Three stage tower with string courses corner buttresses and parapet. Nave with restored Y-tracery windows and buttresses, chancel stepped in with renewed lancets, and low windows to north and south. North porch C17 of red brick on flint, the end wall rebuilt C19 in brown brick. C19 doorways. Interior: plain chamfered tower door, fine C15 chancel arch on round responds with moulded octagonal capitals and bases, and wave moulded outer order carried all the way round the arch. The inner reveals of chancel lancets are original C13 work. C19 roofs, of crown posts in the nave. The nave extends to north of chancel and tower as if aisled on plan. The north doorway C15, with attached shafts and moulded surround. C19 fittings, including bad marble reredos. Monuments: large series of black and white marble wall plaques, early and mid C19 Neo-classical, the best to Sarah Curling, d. 1845, with draped urn and enriched bracketed base, signed J. Milligan, Portland Rd, London, and Jane Harvey, d.1842, with a sarcophagus on claw feet, with fasces on the sides, and small coffin over, signed E. Gaffin, Regent St. London. Originally a chapelry of Northbourne. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 460) Listing NGR: TR3582952152