St. Martin, Detling, Kent

Description

The church of St. Martin is of rough flints in the Early English and later styles, and has a tower of Portland stone, with spire, containing one bell: there is a monument to the Foote family, 1788, a very richly carved lectern of the Decorated period, an ancient poor's box cut out of the solid wood, and the upper part of a stone coffin slab, bearing the effigy of a tonsured priest, probably of the 13th century: the church affords 160 sittings.

Church Records

The register of baptisms dates from the year 1558; marriages, 1563; burials, 1571.

Findmypast have the following online for Detling, St Martin: baptisms 1558-1919, marriages 1566-1919, burials 1571-1916