St Mary Magdalene Church, Ruckinge

St Mary Magdalene Church is located in the village of Ruckinge, south of Ashford in Kent. The church was built in the 12th century with Kentish ragstone. The building's layout consists of a wide nave with 14th-century aisles, chancel, north and south chapel, two-stage western tower with lead spire and a wooden north porch.^[1] The south aisle contains a Norman doorway with two scratch dials carved into the stone fabric.^[2] There are 14th-century glass fragments in the east window of the north aisle featuring St George and the Dragon. The 14th-century chancel has medieval choir stalls with poppyhead bench ends.^[3] The south chapel projects outward with offset corner buttresses and contains a blocked 18th-century brick doorway. On the south wall of the tower is a reredos painted to look like marble.^[1]

Furnishings include an ogee-headed piscina in the east wall of the chancel, a 17th-century altar table, a mid-18th-century altar rail, a piscina in the south chapel, a plain octagonal font with base, and a 19th-century Gothic style pulpit.^[1] The upper stage of the tower dates to the 13th century. The tower has offset corner buttresses and a spiral staircase which is located at the south-west corner. In the tower's western side is a 15th-century decorated doorway set into a larger outer Norman doorway.^[2]