Lynsted - Church of St Peter and St Paul

Lynsted The restored Decorated and Perpendicular Church of St Peter and St Paul has a wooden belfry and spire. There are some fine and interesting brasses, and monuments by the first known great English sculptor, Epiphanius Evesham. The church has the highest, grade I, architectural listing status. It is a 14th-century broach spired church, with 13th century features and its chancel is 16th century. The monuments include the south Roper chapel to Sir John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham, (d.1618), brass chandelier dated 1686; brasses to Elizabeth Roper, (d.1567), to John Worley, (d.1621), 2 foot figures; painted alabaster with stiff recumbent knight with his Lady on a marble sarcophagus; a son and two daughters kneel on a panel to rear in coffered niche with architectural surround.