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    Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 101  1984  page 150
Three medieval timber-framed Church Porches in west Kent: Fawkham, Kemsing and Shoreham. 
             By Terence Paul Smith, B.A., M.A., M.Litt., M.I.F.A.    continued


Fig. 3.  South Porch, Shoreham Church

non-confident over-pegging of the durn tenons to the tie-beam. Cumulatively, these features suggest an earlier date than Shoreham, perhaps some time in the early fourteenth century. There is nothing in the ironwork of the door — though this is admittedly fragmentary —to preclude such a dating.

 

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