St Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley

St Mary's and All Saints Church
Church from the south-east
Location within Kent
Coordinates: 51°18′07″N 0°32′41″E / 51.301925°N 0.544854°E / 51.301925; 0.544854
Location	Boxley, Kent
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Boxley Church
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	26 April 1968
Style	Decorated Gothic/ Perpendicular Gothic
Completed	13th, 14th and 15th centuries
Specifications
Materials	Rag-stone, Flint
Bells	6 (full circle)
Tenor bell weight	10 long cwt 3 qr 10 lb (1,214 lb or 551 kg)
Administration
Parish	St Mary's and All Saints, Boxley
Deanery	North Downs
Archdeaconry	Maidstone
Diocese	Canterbury
Province	Canterbury

St Mary's and All Saints is a parish church in Boxley, Kent begun in the 13th century and with additions in the 14th and 15th centuries. The church was restored in the 1870s. It is a Grade I listed building.

The church is constructed with uncoursed local rag-stone and flint walls and plain tiled roofs. The nave is flanked by aisles on each side and the chancel has a vestry on the south side. The tower at the west end of the nave has a narthex on its west side, being the remains of an earlier church.

The tower is formed in three stages with buttressed corners and a battlemented parapet. A stair turret is attached to the north-east corner and belfry windows are located on the top floor on each side. The narthex has a half-hipped roof with a restored three-lighted perpendicular gothic window set left of centre on the west face above the entrance door. Smaller two-lighted windows are positioned at low level in the north and south walls.

The north and south aisles feature variously sized and detailed two-lighted decorated gothic windows on their flank and end walls. The centre bay of the south aisle is occupied by the south porch. The windows in the chancel and the vestry on its south side are 19th-century.

The interior of the narthex features remains of Norman arcading and a common rafter roof. The doorways through the east and west walls of the tower are perpendicular with the one on the west having carvings of a bishop and a king in the moulding over.