Page:Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.djvu/90

 58 piscariæ de ccc allecibus” (D. B.): the existing parish of Doddington being some miles, in a straight line, from the water, with other parishes intervening, that immediately adjoining in that direction being Newnham, which seems more likely to have been included in Norton manor, than in that of Dodeham. From the above account however it is perhaps probable, that the last-named manor originally was more extensive, than the present parish of Doddington.

The church of Doddington, externally very unpromising, has some peculiarities, which render it deserving of notice. It consists of chancel, nave, south aisle with a chancel coextensive with the other, and a south porch, the apology for a tower being modern with the upper part constructed of wood. The piers and arches between the nave and aisle being Norm., it may be presumed that the outer walls are as early. The chancel seems to be Tr. Norm., as are the arches and pier between that and the south chancel. At the east end are four small round-headed windows, three below and one above; and in the south-west pier of the chancel is an opening with a double squint, affording a view of the altar in either chancel. At the west end of the chancel, in the north wall, is a window containing in the eastern splay a small niche for an image with a small stone desk below it, and in the opposite side an ambry. The south chancel is of later date than the aisle, being E.E., with large double-lancet windows in the east end, of which the lower portions have been built up. Some Dec. and Perp. windows have been inserted. There are trifling remains of coloured glass, a Perp. screen, and other woodwork, but all the latter, including poppy-heads, has been painted. In the south chancel are some old grave slabs, of which one or more may have been inverted; another has a cross with an inscription in “Lombard” characters. The south door and lock are ancient. A door in the north wall is closed up, and there seems to have been some alteration about the western end of the north wall. According to Harris Doddington was formerly a chapelry to Lenham, while Hasted states to Teynham.

101. .—“Three churches” are specified here in (D.B.) as if there might have been more, and “the canons of St. Martin's Dover,” are mentioned; yet the place is styled “villa,” which Spelman says signifies the same as manor. “In the domain of St. Martin's seven bondmen pay sixty shillings for providing shoes for the canons: reddunt lx solidos ad calicamenta