Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Vol. 218: January to June Inclusive, 1865 The parish church of Ash, with its tapering spire. Is a well-known East Kent landmark. It stands in the middle of the village. And not very far from the centre of the extensive parish, on the site of an older and simpler edifice of Norman or Saxon construction, some of the found ations of which are still in existence. The earliest parts of the present structure date from about 1200; it is cruciform. With a central tower surmounted by a spire. One feature on which Mr. Planche te marks is the divergence of the chancel to the south, slightly out of a line with the nave, as is the case in St. Mary's at Oxford, and some other well-known examples. The present tower, he considers, is clearly an after-thought, and he sees reasons for doubting whether the original plan of the present church embraced one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.