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Posted: 16th August, 2019 Category: Architecture

How many of these Faversham doors can you identify? Faversham Life’s Lisa Valder took a stroll around the town and photographed the ancient and modern, the imposing and the unassuming

Words Amicia de Moubray, Posy Gentles Photographs Lisa Valder

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Who will be the next incumbent to own these elaborately glazed doors framed by elegant thin pilasters?

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Once an important staging post, The Ship Inn is now residential. It dates in part from the 15th century.

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Teal paint and an ornate grill

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Famed for our pubs, this door will be familiar to many

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A fine classical door surround with a handsome pediment.

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A glimpse through the back door

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A marvellous set of old wooden double doors

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A studded wooden door in the Tudorbethan style

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A fine pair of wooden doors. One can but admire the practicality of the vertical letterbox in the more recent door and the handsome iron hinges

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The ancient and the old side by side in this charming red house

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A door in need of attention but a fabulous blue nonetheless

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This double door is to be repainted. Note the vermiculated keystone and quoins on either side of the door

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Is this the oldest door in Faversham?

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A pretty set of glazed doors in the regency style

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Befittingly ostentatious for the country’s oldest brewery

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An august classical portico. The eccentric capitals are a winning amalgam of Corinthian and Ionic captials

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A classically simple white-painted portico with a handsome fanlight

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A sturdy old wooden door

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Unpainted and gleaming with age

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An ornate setting for this door – possibly a later addition

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The fanlight is rather more elegant than the doors which were probably changed

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A solid door, now slightly crooked in its elegant frame

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For those of us who remember the much-lamented Ruby Shoes

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Simple and fine