North and south belfry openings of west tower

First recorded in Page 1907

St Andrew

Heavily weathered, particularly on the capitals; shaft b made up inaccurately in cement

Each shaft has a tall circular base on which sits an oblate moulding with a narrow roll above. The lower part of the shaft tapers towards a group of mouldings placed just below the mid-point. This consists of a prominent roll moulding flanked by narrower, recessed roll mouldings. Above this point the shaft either tapers very slightly, or is parallel-sided, terminating at the upper end in an elaborately moulded capital which is partially weathered away. This consists of a single roll moulding with a short length of plain shaft above it. It then curves out slightly towards a vertical fillet crowned by a projecting roll moulding, then by a second, recessed vertical fillet, and then by a series of three roll mouldings, each projecting further than the one below.

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

The west tower at Jevington is broad and rather squat with dressed stone quoins, which suggests a post-Conquest date. The appearance of the north and south belfry windows before their radical modification in 1873 supports this view, as they originally had angle-shafts as well as the existing freestanding balusters (Brown 1925, 461). Nonetheless, the latter do resemble elaborately moulded pre-Conquest examples, such as those at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (nos. 6 –7; Ills. 41–9) or St Mary in Castro at Dover (nos. 2–3; Ills. 64–7, 71–5). The major significant difference lies in the fact that the Kentish shafts expand towards the mid-point, and taper towards the base and capital. It remains possible, however, that the Jevington examples are pre-Conquest material reused in an early Romanesque context, like the shafts from St Albans, Hertfordshire (no. 1; Ills. 376–96).

Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date in eleventh century

Page 1907, 364; Brown 1925, 461; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, i, 350