With traces of medieval wall paintings on the south wall in sight, the earliest definitive records of Molash church can be found in the early thirteenth century.

In that century, Molash Church like many small parish churches in rural Kent, served not only as a place of worship but as the centre of local activity, the vicar and churchwardens organised the distribution of alms and bread to the poor, sheltered travellers and tended the sick, while tithes, gifts from local lords and parishioners, and the contents of the church poor‑box formed the modest financial basis for relief. 

Charity at this time was largely community‑based and personal, expressed through regular alms‑giving, occasional bequests for the maintenance of the needy, and the reciprocal obligations of manor and parish; the church’s ritual life—masses and prayers—also embodied an ethical duty to care for the less fortunate. Even though detailed records for Molash itself are scarce, surviving practice across Kent suggests that the parish church would have been central to these everyday acts of compassion in the early thirteenth century.