. Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 . Natural history. GRAVESEND. 403 We saw afterwards another Church [the description applies to Shorne Church], which similarly, was for the greatest part built of Flints, flintor, yet that Portland stone was here and there built into the wall. The window frames and tracery as well as the door-posts were always, in all such old Churches, of Portland stone ; also frequently the angles of the Church walls and the tower. The windows were mostly small enough. For which west side of the lane opposite to the house marked Mr. Map
. Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 . Natural history. GRAVESEND. 403 We saw afterwards another Church [the description applies to Shorne Church], which similarly, was for the greatest part built of Flints, flintor, yet that Portland stone was here and there built into the wall. The window frames and tracery as well as the door-posts were always, in all such old Churches, of Portland stone ; also frequently the angles of the Church walls and the tower. The windows were mostly small enough. For which west side of the lane opposite to the house marked Mr. Maplesden's in the Map, the traveller will probably notice an ancient Chapel or Oratory. There can be no doubt of its having been a sacred edifice, because in digging for the foundation of the contiguous building a stone coffin and many human bones were dis- covered. In Mr. Thorpe's Antiquities is an engraving of the North-West view of this Chapel, but it is left to the researches of future antiquaries to ascertain when and by whom it had its original, no deed or other historical evidence having yet been met with relative to its institution or ; The Map referred to in the above note is on the scale of one inch to a mile in the K. T. Mr. Maplesden's house is now called Pipes Place, and a little cross-lane into the above lane from the west and passing south of the ruin is called ' Malthouse Lane.' I have not been able to find the alleged view in any of the thirteen plates in Thorpe's Antiquities. On August 10th, 1887, I visited the ruin, when Mrs. Cheesman, set 84, told me that when she was young it was always called 'the Malthouse,' but that she did not know that it had ever been used as such. Kalm's description is accurate. The windows are all two-light, but the mullions are gone. This was a true Church; A Piscina and two sedilia are to be seen on the south side interior. The architecture is pure Early English, probably early 13th century. The curious history of the
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