ST GILES CHURCH, TONGE, SWALE BOROUGH, KENT, ENGLAND. Church Road, Tonge. Post Code: ME10 2BL Tel: 01795 429360 Latitude: 51°20'32"N Longitude: 0°46'32"E Parish church. 12th and 14th century, Restored 16th and 17th century, and 1893 (£150). Flint, with red brick buttresses and chancel and plain tiled roofs. Condition: Poor. Slow decay; no solution agreed. Nave and aisles, south tower and south porch. Nave and aisles under one roof. West door with triple hollow chamfered surround, and large 14th century 3-light west window with intersecting and cusped tracery; brick corner buttresses. 19th century timber framed porch, with roll moulded and chamfered south doorway. South tower with twice offset corner buttresses with rectangular external vice to south west and single lancet lights. North aisle with 3 brick buttresses, jambs of blocked north doorway, and 3 gabled 19th century dormer windows. Chancel west bay with single lancet to south, and blocked 2 bay arcade to north, the eastern bays rebuilt with red brick on medieval flint and ragstone base, with 17th century 2-light mullioned brick windows, and 19th century east traceried window. Interior: 12th century nave north arcade, 4 bays with unmoulded round arches, with 2 square and 1 round pier, the latter with spurred base and scalloped capital; south arcade with blocked round arch to west, and 2 chamfered and pointed 13th century arches and square pier. Large buttress separates the arcade from the tower arch with 14th century double chamfered arch on moulded octagonal corbels. Nave with roof of 3 crown posts beam ends on corbels to south. Tower with blocked eastern arch. Chancel arch a 19th century copy of the tower arch. Chancel with part exposed jambs of blocked arcading. Fittings: early 16th century rood screen of 5 bays with cusped panels, and cusped tracery with crenelated and sloping transoms and attached shafts with crenelated caps. Seven sided 17th century pulpit with incised lozenge decoration and 2 attached wrought iron candle brackets. Box pews. Fragmentary 14th century St. Christopher scene painted on north wall of nave. Structural monitoring has established that movement is generally stable. The state of the fabric has been improved. The parish is applying for a grant to conserve the medieval wall paintings and is about to have the building re-wired.