Exterior, St Mary's Church, Lenham

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A 15th-century tower of Kentish ragstone with battlements and a prominent blue clock face houses a ring of historic bells. The timber-framed gabled north porch forms the main entrance, combining medieval stonework with later restoration in Tudor style. The long nave, with its paired pointed-arch windows, reflects the Early English and Decorated Gothic phases of the 13th and 14th centuries. The clerestory windows were added in the later medieval period to bring light into the nave. The eastern end of the church forms the chancel, rebuilt and extended in the 14th century, houses the high altar and features large traceried windows. The steeply pitched tiled roofs, restored in the 19th century, follow the traditional Kentish profile typical of parish churches in the Weald.