The east­ward arch of the tower (open­ing into the chan­cel) seems to be orig­i­nal, and its hatchet-cut impost mould­ings may be about A.D. 1100–1110.

The west­ern arch was prob­a­bly altered when the north aisle was added, after A.D. 1180. It is pointed; so is the arch then pierced through the north wall of the tower; but the west­ern, or nave arch has Nor­man impost mouldings.

The south­ern impost mould­ing may be the orig­i­nal one of Early Nor­man date, but the north­ern impost seems to have a much later mould­ing. This orna­men­ta­tion resem­bles some to be found in the Late Nor­man base­ment of the Bap­tistry of Can­ter­bury Cathedral.

The Nor­man door­way in the west wall of the nave was taken down when the west wall was entirely rebuilt, some years before the restora­tion of the nave in 1878– 1880. Rough foun­da­tion masonry is vis­i­ble north of the base of the north­west pier of the tower; when it orig­i­nally was inserted we can­not now say. It was then out­side the Church. vidently much was done here a lit­tle before, or a lit­tle after the year A.D. 1200. The north aisle was then erected and the north chan­cel built; arches being opened into them through the north wall of the nave (two) and through the north wall of the tower. The chan­cel was also then greatly enlarged and hooded lancet win­dows were inserted in the nave’s south wall

In the tower, in each side of the Early Nor­man east­ern arch there is a pointed arched recess prob­a­bly of the four­teenth cen­tury, each of which may have served as a rere­dos for an altar. When the Church was restored these were care­fully exam­ined and found to be merely recesses. The walls had never been pierced. Traces of painted orna­men­ta­tion were found round the arches.

The aum­bry in the north wall of the tower was dis­cov­ered in 1878–1880. The orig­i­nal wooden frame crum­bled to pieces soon after it was exposed to the air, hav­ing been plas­tered over for years.

Upon the west­ern side of the north pier of the west arch of the nave painted dec­o­ra­tion was dis­cov­ered beneath the lime­wash. It extended also along the north wall adja­cent to the tower arch as far as the east­ern most arch of the nave arcade. The pat­tern was arranged in ver­ti­cal stripes, each filled with eleven fig­ures, which were fleurs-de-lys and wheel-like roundels of flow­ers alter­nately, but there was a fleur-de-lys always at the top and at the bot­tom of each stripe. The upper bor­der (formed of dou­ble chevron pat­tern) ran just below the impost mould­ing of the tower’s west­ern arch. The lower bor­der of the same chevron-like pat­tern was at a level twelve or four­teen inches below that of the spring of the arches of the north arcade of the nave. No doubt an altar had stood against this north-west pier of the tower, and the space imme­di­ately above it had some other dec­o­ra­tion on it.

On the south­ern face of the north-west pier of the tower’s west­ern arch there had been painted a text of scrip­ture in black let­ter type.

In 1926, the roof of the tower was taken off and replaced by a new roof, using the old main oak beams with new oak joists and board, and cov­ered with sheet lead.

The access door is cov­ered with sheet lead embossed with the date, two pil­lars and arch and ini­tials R.H. C.W. 1926.

In 1928, the old beams sup­port­ing the bells were removed and five pynka­doe beams, each weigh­ing nearly a ton were fixed, the bell frame strength­ened and treated to kill death watch bee­tle and the bells and fit­tings repaired and re-hung, and the bells being rung after a lapse of sev­enty years.

The tower now has six bells, the old bells being re-hung, on ball bear­ings, when the sixth, the tre­ble bell, was given and ded­i­cated in 1951 to cer­tain mem­bers Champ­neys fam­ily, and to replace the stained glass memo­r­ial win­dow in the nave, destroyed by bomb blast. A tablet near the win­dow states these facts.

In 1969 it was found nec­es­sary to replace the old oak frame, to quar­ter turn the bells, and to re-tune them. A unique grand fes­ti­val of flow­ers and bells, with an appeal raised the nec­es­sary money. The tower walls above the first floor were ren­dered and plas­tered, and with a new floor imme­di­ately below the bells, a new ring­ing cham­ber was thus con­structed. Since the Reded­i­ca­tion in Jan­u­ary 1970. ring­ing has been from the first floor instead of ground level. At this time a bell cast­ing site was dis­cov­ered in the church­yard. It may have been used in 1580 (or ear­lier), when two small bells were brought up from West Hythe and prob­a­bly recast.

From the nave can be seen, above the exist­ing tower arch, three Nor­man win­dows (now blocked up) which in the twelfth cen­tury were open to the sky above the level of the nave’s Nor­man roof. Sim­i­lar win­dows are vis­i­ble (now also blocked) upon the same level, on the exte­rior of the south side of the tower. Upon a lower level of the tower in both north and south walls there was orig­i­nally a cen­tral Nor­man win­dow of small size. Of these the south­ern window’s jambs and head remain, blocked up but vis­i­ble west of the exist­ing win­dow of two lights. The stonework of the north­ern win­dow was mainly destroyed when an Early Eng­lish arch was opened into the Early Eng­lish north aisle, a lit­tle before or after A.D. 1200; but the round head of this Nor­man north win­dow can still be traced, above the apex of the Early Eng­lish arch. In the tower’s east wall a cen­tral Nor­man win­dow still appears, on the exte­rior, above the apex of the chan­cel roofs ridge.

From the nave, we can now see the north-western Nor­man but­tress of the tower which in the twelfth cen­tury was an exte­rior but­tress hid­den by the nave’s north wall; just as the sim­i­lar but­tress on the south is still hid­den by the nave’s south wall. The pews under the tower were removed and the floor tiled in 1951.