Plaxtol, GB

Old Soar Manor Chapel

Old Soar Manor is situated in a remote position in the Kent countryside near Ightham, on the edge of the North Downs. This rare survival of 13th century domestic architecture gives an illuminating impression of the life of a rich medieval family. The manor belonged to the Culpeppers, a leading Kentish family in the Middle Ages who were major landowners.

About this building

For more information visit on this building visit www.explorechurches.org/church/old-soar-manor-chapel-plaxtol

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St John the Baptist

A church has stood here since 1115, at the centre of a cluster of buildings, including manor house, guild house and rectory, all still surviving. Listed grade I, the church helps tell a country's story through the eyes of single village, through its courtiers, soldiers, statesmen, politicians or priests whose lives appear on memorials or through its changing architecture, brasses, carvings, effiigies and windows.

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St Katherine

The ownership of lands in Ockholte, Latinised Acolta, is recorded in various deeds from 1197 onwards. The church, and the emergence of Knockholt as an independent parish, can be dated from a document of 1350, rediscovered in Reigate library in 1849. It records how Ralph Scot of Chelsfield bought land in Ocolte and moved to his newly built hall there in the times of Henry III, before 1272.

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