St Peter & St Paul, Seal
St Peter & St Paul, Seal
St Peter and St Paul is the Grade I parish church of Seal, Kent, a thirteenth-century church largely rebuilt in the Perpendicular period, with a Kentish west tower of about 1520–29, in the Diocese of Rochester.
- Location
- Seal, Kent
- Country
- England
- County
- Kent
- City / town
- Seal
- Address
- Church Street, Seal, Kent, TN15 0AT
- Postcode
- TN15 0AT
- Built
- 13th-century core; much rebuilt in the 15th and early 16th centuries; tower c.1520–29; north aisle 1855
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter and Paul
- Diocese
- Rochester
- Parish
- Seal
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Early English core; Perpendicular rebuilding; Kentish tower
- Materials
- Sandstone rubble (tower masonry galletted); tiled roofs
- Grid reference
- TQ 550 569
- Opening hours
- Approximately 9.30am to 5pm (or dusk if earlier).
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists the church (1243497, 10 September 1954). The core is thirteenth-century (south aisle arcade and a blocked south lancet), much rebuilt in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The three-stage embattled west tower was under construction about 1520–29. A north aisle was added in 1855 and lengthened for an organ chamber in 1879. Materials are sandstone rubble with tiled roofs. Medieval roofs survive to the nave, south aisle and porch. Fittings include a late Perpendicular font with a seventeenth-century cover, a pulpit of about 1630, a chandelier dated 1725, and monuments from a high-quality late-fourteenth-century brass to Pratt family tablets by Chantrey. The parish website is sealpeterandpaul.com.