SPB Mais who often expressed his dislike of certain church properties ['It isn't far from London, 1930] writes " North Manston has a glorious church, both machicolated and pinnacled, and a splendid inscription on the tomb to Mr John Virgin, Minister of North Marston, who died in 1694. It possesses a remarkable carved stone hand pointing to the ground, and the inscription runs <He lise just downe thare>".