St Pancras (now)
Parish church
Coldred is a village on high ground about 1 mile SE of Shepherdswell near Dover in SE Kent. The church of St Pancras is situated within the outer bailey of an early Norman motte and bailey castle---and in fact is one of the few churches to be situated in the outer bailey of a castle. The church has a chancel and nave with N vestry, S porch and W bellcote. The church tower bell has been dated to the 14thc, but is more likely to date from the early 13thc.
The church has been described as a 'good example of an original early Norman rectangular nave and chancel with no later additions' (Tatton-Brown 1992). The N window of the nave very likely dates from the late 11thc/early 12thc; there are also remains of three original single splay windows in the N and W walls of the nave. This has small Caen stone jambs. An important surviving fragment of Romanesque sculpture is a section of chevron above the rebuilt S doorway.
Parish church
The church incorporates Anglo-Saxon and late 12thc. fabric, the latter
including a pointed arch with an impost block
decorated with large dogtooth. No Romanesque sculpture remains in situ although
there are two loose fragments in the church.