St Martin's Church, White Roothing (EHER 4361)

Church comprising the west tower, nave and chancel, north vestry, and south porch. The walls of flint rubble, clunch, and Roman brick with plain red tile roof. The church has an 11th to 12th century nave with 13th to 14th century, 16th century, and 19th century additions.

Monument description derived from merging EHER 4361, 4362, 4363, and 38076. Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: 11th to 12th century nave. <1> Walls of flint-rubble, some brick. Dressings of clunch. Nave built in the 11th or early 12th century. Chancel probably rebuilt in the 14th century. The west tower was rebuilt early in the 16th century. Windows are 11th century, 11th or early 12th century, 14th century and 15th century. Doorways, 11th and 14th centuries. The roofs have late 14th to 15th century timbers. There are 13th and 15th century doors. The font is early 12th century. The nave has a roundel of 15th century glass. The RCHM also records a 13th century recess and a loose, probably 14th century head. In 1878-9 the north vestry was added and the building generally restored. The church has 5 17th century bells, a late 17th century chair and an early 18th century communion table. <2> The south door has 13th century ironwork, the font is Norman and square. <3> According to DOE the nave roof is 13th century. The south porch is timber-framed and 14th century, rebuilt in the 16th century. Some of the medieval windows were restored and renewed in the 19th century. 15ft to the south east of the church is a double table tomb of the Paris family (1789-1900). Grade II*. <4> The nave has angle quoins of Roman brick and stone. <5> <6> August 1975. Field visit. Roman tile can be seen in the angle quoins of the nave and over three 11th century window heads. <7> 2012. Watching brief. Archaeological monitoring on ground reduction inside the church and a cess pit and sewer trench outside found evidence of a possible burial with disarticulated bone fragments. No earlier foundations were identified. <8> See: <9>