Patrixbourne - St. Mary

Patrixbourne is just 5 km from Canterbury. In the Domesday Book Patrixbourne was just like Barfrestone held by Bishop Odo, but it was transferred finally to Merton Priory - until the Reformation.

The parish church dates from the late Norman period. It is just like St. Nicholas in Barfrestone built of flint and Caen Stone imported from France - and it looks like the same artists or at least the same workshop created the carvings.

The south doorway to the tower. The tympanum has not survived well. It is likely that the was damaged by iconoclastic Puritans in 17th century.