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ST LAWRENCE CHAPEL​

At the bottom of Chapel Lane is found the ancient chapel of St Lawrence which is now converted into five dwellings.  The chapel may date back to the 12th Century and probably served as a wayside chapel for local people, travellers and drovers

C.1910

The 800 year old chapel of St lawrence, Upper Halling lies at the junction of two Neolithic trackways named in more recent times Chapel lane and the Pilgrims Way.
 
St Lawrence Free Chantry is a Norman Building dating from between 1190 and the 1200s - it consisted of a simple chancel and nave.
 
It has been suggested that the chapel may be the oldest inhabited building in Kent.  Grade 2 Listed it has three foo  outer walls of flint rubble and lime mortarthat taper to the eaves.  Under the present floors is solisd chalk.

The main purpose of a chantry was for paid masses to be said for the dead, assuring their safe passage through purgatory to Heaven.  Travellers and drovers would have used the chapel for shelter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
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