Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL (1100628)

LEYBOURNE CP MALLING ROAD TQ 65 NE (west side) 7/201 Church of St Peter and 25.8.59 St Paul - II* Church. C12, C1533, restored 1873-77 by Sir A Blomfield. West tower, nave, separate chancel, north aisle and chapel. Random rubble, tiled roofs. Tower: 4 stages, separated by bands, a re-casing of 1873-77. Embattled with inset machiocolations, and prominent water-spouts at corner. 2-light neo-Norman belfry openings, tall slits on 2 stages below and curvilinear west window. Nave: 2 bays with one C12 window to south. Chancel: one bay. North aisle and chapel: 3 two-light windows with square-headed surrounds. Interior: North arcade, C14 octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Chancel arch, double- chamfered, originally from north arcade. Fittings: Heart Shrine: Traditionally that of Sir Roger de Laybourne, d.1271. Double arched recess in single arch. 2 free-standing gabled caskets with geometrical patterning. 2 wrought-iron crowns. Monument, Louisa Brockman, d.1837, by J S Westmacott, 1866. Tablet flanked by relief figures. Listing NGR: TQ6858258935