Church of St Peter and St Paul, Borden
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Image: © Richard Dorrell Taken: 12 Jan 2008
Supposed to have been erected about the year 1005, comprises three aisles and three chancels, with a square tower at the western end. There are some Roman bricks mixed with the flint stones in the building, and cemented with mortar in the composition of which pulverized cockle-shells have been used. From: 'Bonchurch - Borden', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 302-305. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50812. Date accessed: 12 January 2008.