ALL SAINTS CHURCH
BOUGHTON ALUPH
ASHFORD
KENT
TN25 4EU
BOUGHTON ALUPH
ASHFORD
KENT
TN25 4EU
window openings were subsidiary, as can be seen in the chancel. After the time of the Black Death, alterations were made: the windows now became dominant and the walls no more than a framework to support them. Traces of the original windows are still visible, most notably the one on the south side of the chancel next to the pulpit. This was blocked off when the outside staircase to the new tower was built. In about 1820, however, most of the large windows were reduced in size and brick mullions and tracery were inserted, as can be seen from outside the nave, particularly on the north side.
Several features survive from the Catholic Middle Ages: the aumbry (a recess in the wall next to the altar, for church vessels), three piscanae (or stone basins), a sedile (or priest’s seat) and outside, a pedestal on the gable end of the chancel, which probably held the
POINTS OF INTEREST
The wall painting in the north transept, which was conserved in 1997, dates from about 1440 and depicts the Holy Trinity. During the Commonwealth, it was whitewashed over and a wall monument in memory of