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The borough of Tunbridge Wells, one of 13 local government districts in the English county of Kent, has nearly 130 current and former places of worship. The mostly rural area is dominated by the prosperous spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and its suburbs, such as Southborough, Pembury and Langton Green. Many of the borough's current and former churches and chapels are in the town, as are the two non-Christian places of worship. Ancient parish churches and small Nonconformist chapels characterise the villages and hamlets elsewhere in the borough, which borders East Sussex in the southwestern part of Kent. 87 places of worship are in use in the borough, serving many Christian denominations and followers of Islam and the Subud movement. A further 37 former places of worship no longer hold religious services but survive in alternative uses.
The majority of Tunbridge Wells residents identify themselves as Christian. Anglican churches serving the Church of England, the country's Established Church, are most numerous: they are found throughout the borough, in tiny villages such as Tudeley and Frittenden, Victorian suburbs such as High Brooms and Ferndale, and modern developments such as the Sherwood housing estate. Three Anglican churches are shared by other denominations, and separate chapels and meeting rooms for non-Anglican worshippers are prevalent as well. Baptists and Roman Catholics each have several places of worship; Brethren meetings take place at several locations in the borough (there are four meeting rooms in Royal Tunbridge Wells alone); and other Christian groups with places of worship in the town include Christian Scientists, the Church of Christ (with two chapels), Latter-day Saints, Quakers and The Salvation Army.
English Heritage has awarded listed status to 43 places of worship in the borough. A building is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.[1] The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, is responsible for this; English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of the department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues.[2] There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of "special interest".[3] As of February 2001, there were 26 Grade I-listed buildings, 128 with Grade II* status and 2,066 Grade II-listed buildings in the borough of Tunbridge Wells.[4]
Overview of the borough and its places of worship
The borough of Tunbridge Wells covers 33,133 hectares (81,870 acres) of southwest Kent next to the county of East Sussex.[5] In 2011 the population of the borough was 115,200: just over half lived in the main towns of Royal Tunbridge Wells and Southborough,[6] which together had an estimated population of 56,600 in 2006.[7] Other large villages include the ancient Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Lamberhurst and the more modern Paddock Wood and Pembury. The fertile, undulating and sparsely populated Weald, from whose northern edge the North Downs rise sharply, dominates the rest of the area.[8] Christianity reached England via Kent: in 597 Augustine was sent from Rome by Pope Gregory I to convert the population, and several 7th-century ecclesiastical buildings survive in the county.[9] In this westernmost part of the county, though, most surviving churches date from after the Norman conquest in the late 11th century. Many parish churches date from the 12th century, "as busy a time for building in Kent as for cathedral and monastic works". A typical form consists of a nave without aisles and a smaller, lower chancel, usually without an apse;[10] examples in the borough survive in small villages such as Bidborough[11] and Capel[12] Churches in the larger villages such as Cranbrook,[13] Goudhurst[14] and Hawkhurst[15] date from between the 13th and 15th centuries, having replaced older buildings. Large-scale churchbuilding resumed in the Victorian era, when "decadence and decay" had ruined many churches and population growth and the results of a religious census encouraged the Church of England to improve its provision of buildings for worship.[16] Holy Trinity Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells was expensively funded and designed by prominent architect Decimus Burton at the same time as he was designing the town's most fashionable residential areas;[17] the richly decorated Christ Church at Kilndown, a village with no church, has been "an object of national interest" since its completion in the 1840s;[18] Holy Trinity at Sissinghurst bankrupted its builder but continues to serve its village;[19] and new churches were provided much nearer the centres of population in villages such as Pembury[20] and Horsmonden.[21] Southborough's transformation into a small town and suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells resulted in four Anglican churches being built between 1830 and 1886, including a mission chapel (now a separate parish church) at High Brooms.[22] The single postwar Anglican church serves a new housing estate in Royal Tunbridge Wells.[23]
Protestant Nonconformist denominations found great support in Kent, especially during the 19th century,[24] and many of their chapels survive in the borough of Tunbridge Wells. In the similar sized neighbouring county of Sussex, 244 such chapels opened between 1818 and 1901, against 765 in Kent. Methodism was followed particularly strongly: 325 Methodist chapels (including Wesleyan, Primitive, Bible Christian and others) were built during that period, against 327 Anglican churches; Baptists and Congregationalists each gained over 150 new places of worship; and nearly 150 meeting rooms, chapels and halls for other denominations were opened.[24] The decline of Methodism since its Victorian heyday and the amalgamation of its various strands into one denomination[25] means that only three chapels are still in use in the borough, along with a shared Anglican and Methodist church at Paddock Wood. Former chapels, some of which closed as recently as the early 21st century,[26] are found in many villages. Calvinism, "the characteristic religion of rural Kent",[27] made its mark in places such as Matfield, Cranbrook, Lamberhurst and Southborough, each of which has a surviving Strict Baptist chapel. These are "typically small, neat, plain, porched and with a Hebrew name": Matfield's is called Ebenezer, as is a former chapel at Hawkhurst, and other closed chapels for Calvinistic Baptists include Providence (Cranbrook and Curtisden Green), Rehoboth (Royal Tunbridge Wells) and Jehovah Jireh (in a hamlet near Brenchley). The United Reformed Church, successor to the Congregational Church whose followers were so prevalent in the county in the 19th century, also retains three churches of its own and another shared with Anglicans. In Royal Tunbridge Wells, the vast Mount Pleasant Congregational Church (1845–48, with a huge Tuscan-columned portico and pediment of 1868) and an outlying chapel in the town's Albion Road were closed as the denomination based its worship around fewer, larger and better located churches.[28] Plymouth and Open Brethren, served by 19 meeting rooms across Kent by 1901,[24] have always been well provided for in the Tunbridge Wells area; three places of worship in use by World War II have been supplemented by others since the 1980s, including a large meeting hall at Five Oak Green.[29] Brethren worshippers' "attachment to makeshift premises" and "purposeful indifference to any form of pretension" in architecture[30] is in evidence in these modern buildings, but their oldest place of worship (the York Road Assembly of c. 1891) is a distinctive stuccoed Classical-style building.[31]
Roman Catholic worship takes place in several villages as well as in Royal Tunbridge Wells itself. Most churches are postwar, but the large St Augustine's Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells (1965) succeeds a landmark building of 1837–38, built of local stone and with a campanile added later. Occupying a prominent town-centre position, it was demolished for commercial redevelopment in 1967 after the new church opened.[32] In some places, Catholics used private houses before permanent churches were built: this happened at Cranbrook[33] and Goudhurst,[34] and in Pembury part of the priest's house (acquired before a church could be built) was temporarily registered as a chapel in the 1960s.[35]
Religious affiliation
According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 104,030 people lived in the borough of Tunbridge Wells. Of these, 75.03% identified themselves as Christian, 0.57% were Muslim, 0.26% were Buddhist, 0.19% were Hindu, 0.17% were Jewish, 0.04% were Sikh, 0.31% followed another religion, 16.02% claimed no religious affiliation and 7.41% did not state their religion. The proportion of Christians was much higher than the 71.74% in England as a whole, and the proportions of people with no religious affiliation and of followers of other religions not listed in the Census were also higher than the national averages (14.59% and 0.29% respectively). Adherents of Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Sikhism were much less prevalent in the district than in England overall: in 2001, 3.1% of people in England were Muslim, 1.11% were Hindu, 0.67% were Sikh and 0.52% were Jewish. The proportion of Buddhists was also slightly lower than the national figure of 0.28%.[36]
Administration
Anglican churches
Most Anglican churches in the borough are in the Archdeaconry of Tonbridge, one of three archdeaconries in the Diocese of Rochester.[37] The seat of the diocese is Rochester Cathedral.[38] The archdeaconry is further divided into six deaneries.[39] The churches at Ashurst, Bidborough, Groombridge and Speldhurst are part of the Tunbridge Wells Deanery, as are all 16 in the Royal Tunbridge Wells/Southborough urban area (one each at Broadwater Down and Langton Green, two at Rusthall, four in Southborough and eight in Royal Tunbridge Wells).[40] Those at Brenchley, Horsmonden, Lamberhurst, Matfield, Paddock Wood and Pembury are in the Paddock Wood Deanery.[41] Tudeley and Five Oak Green churches are within the Tonbridge Deanery.[42]
The area's other Anglican churches are administered by the Weald Deanery, part of the Archdeaconry of Maidstone which is in turn one of three archdeaconries in the Diocese of Canterbury.[43] The churches at Benenden, Cranbrook, Frittenden, Goudhurst, Hawkhurst, Kilndown, Sandhurst (two churches) and Sissinghurst are in this deanery.[44][45][46] The Diocese of Canterbury's seat is Canterbury Cathedral.[47]
Roman Catholic churches
The nine Roman Catholic churches in the borough—at Benenden, Cranbrook, Goudhurst, Hawkhurst, Horsmonden, Paddock Wood, Pembury, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Southborough—are in the Archdiocese of Southwark, whose seat is St George's Cathedral in Southwark, southeast London.[48] The archdiocese has 20 deaneries, of which seven are in Kent. The churches at Paddock Wood, Pembury, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Southborough are in the Tunbridge Wells Deanery.[49][50] Those in the joint parish of Goudhurst, Hawkhurst and Horsmonden[51] are in Maidstone Deanery, as is the church at Cranbrook and its associated Mass Centre at Benenden.[49][52]
Baptist churches
About 150 Baptist churches in southeast England are part of the South Eastern Baptist Association, which arranges its member congregations into geographical networks.[53] The churches at Hawkhurst and Sandhurst are part of the organisation's South Kent Network, while those at Pembury and Royal Tunbridge Wells (Upper Grosvenor Road) are in the Tonbridge Network—as are the Paddock Wood Baptist Church,[54] which meets in a school rather than a building of its own,[55] and Speldhurst Chapel, which is administratively linked to Tonbridge Baptist Church.[56] A number of Strict and Reformed Baptist congregations also worship in chapels in the borough. Cranbrook, Lamberhurst, Matfield and Southborough each have one, and there are two in Royal Tunbridge Wells: the early 19th-century Hanover Chapel and the modern Pantiles Baptist Church. All are affiliated with the Gospel Standard movement[57] except Southborough and the Pantiles chapel; the latter belongs to GraceNet UK, an association of Reformed Evangelical Christian churches and organisations.[58][59]
Methodist churches
As of 2010, St John's Methodist Church in Southborough and Horsmonden Methodist Church were part of the Tunbridge Wells Methodist Circuit within that denomination's South East District. Vale Royal Methodist Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells and the churches at Hawkhurst and Sandhurst, all now closed, were also part of this group.[60]
Congregational Federation churches
Cranbrook Congregational Church[61] and Iden Green Congregational Church[62] are part of the Congregational Federation, an association of independent Congregational churches in Great Britain. The federation came into existence in 1972 when the Congregational Church in England and Wales merged with several other denominations to form the United Reformed Church. Certain congregations wanted to remain independent of this, and instead joined the Congregational Federation.[63] As of January 2021 there were 235 churches in the Federation.[64]
Current places of worship
| Name | Image | Location | Denomination/ Affiliation |
Grade | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Martin of Tours Church | 
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Ashurst 51°07′49″N 0°09′12″E / 51.1302°N 0.1532°E |
Anglican | I | Several rounds of Victorian restoration were carried out here, but the sandstone chancel and nave retain their 14th/15th-century appearance. The "pretty west bellcote" is weatherboarded, and the porch on the south side bears the date 1621. | [65][66] [67] |
| St George's Church | .jpg)
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Benenden 51°03′54″N 0°34′46″E / 51.0649°N 0.5795°E |
Anglican | II* | David Brandon restored this ancient church in 1862 in a Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. The "large and handsome" sandstone building had been only partly rebuilt after lightning damage in 1672. Four ancient windows survive. | [68][69] |
| Benenden Catholic Chapel | .jpg)
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Benenden 51°04′24″N 0°34′48″E / 51.0732°N 0.5801°E |
Roman Catholic | – | This church has always been linked to that at Cranbrook, founded in the 1930s in what was originally Goudhurst parish. Since then St Theodore's Church at Cranbrook has gained its own parish, but Benenden Chapel remains a dependent Mass centre. | [52][70] |
| St Lawrence's Church | 
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Bidborough 51°10′00″N 0°14′14″E / 51.1667°N 0.2372°E |
Anglican | II* | This small sandstone church of the Norman era is elevated above the village. A north aisle was added in the 13th century, and Ewan Christian built one to the south in 1876. The tower is Perpendicular Gothic, as is the east window. | [67][71] [11] |
| All Saints Church | 
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Brenchley 51°09′00″N 0°24′01″E / 51.1500°N 0.4003°E |
Anglican | I | Mostly 13th- and 14th-century, with aisles and slightly later transepts on both sides, this large church has a bulky, heavily buttressed tower rising in "short, jerky steps" and topped by a concave-sided turret. Numerous monuments survive inside. | [72][73] |
| St Mark's Church |
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Broadwater Down, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°06′57″N 0°15′06″E / 51.1158°N 0.2516°E |
Anglican | II* | R.L. Roumieu's eccentric "Late Italian Gothic Revival" stone church has been called "at a distant view quite handsome" but "incredibly complex and ugly" in closeup. The prominent tower has a 140-foot (43 m) spire with distinctive lucarnes and colonnettes. The 4th Earl of Abergavenny paid for the church, which was completed in 1866. | [32][67] [74][75] [76][77] |
| Broadmead Church | 
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Broadwater Down, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°07′03″N 0°15′01″E / 51.1176°N 0.2503°E |
Evangelical | – | The 70-capacity building for this Bible-based Evangelical church was completed in 1981 on a site donated by the builders who were developing the estate. Its origins lay in a Sunday School established in the 1960s on the nearby Ramslye estate. The building was registered for marriages in June 1982. | [67][78] [79] |
| St Dunstan's Church | 
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Cranbrook 51°05′50″N 0°32′11″E / 51.0973°N 0.5363°E |
Anglican | I | The high-naved, short-towered, prominently sited church took shape over a long period in the medieval era. Work started in the late 13th century, the chancel arch and porch are a century later, the nave and tower were added after 1500, and Slater and Christian restored the building in 1863. | [80][81] |
| Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel | 
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Cranbrook 51°05′43″N 0°32′16″E / 51.0953°N 0.5378°E |
Baptist | II | This is the only survivor of two Strict Baptist chapels within a short distance in the village centre: Providence Chapel is now closed. "As humble as any cottage", it is weatherboarded and has arched windows. A single gravestone stands outside. | [57][82] [83][84] [85] |
| Cranbrook Congregational Church | 
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Cranbrook 51°05′46″N 0°32′05″E / 51.0962°N 0.5346°E |
Congregational Federation | II | Cranbrook's first Congregational chapel dated from 1831. This £1,400 building, erected in 1857, replaced it. It remains Congregational, having stayed outside the United Reformed Church denomination. Built of yellow brick in the Gothic Revival style (whose Decorated Gothic influence is visible in the tracery), it has a front porch with a small rose window above. | [61][86] [87][88] [89] |
| St Theodore's Church | 
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Cranbrook 51°05′39″N 0°31′41″E / 51.0943°N 0.5281°E |
Roman Catholic | – | Lady Millicent Moore—wife of Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet—founded a Catholic oratory in her house in the village in 1935. Local Catholics previously worshipped in Goudhurst. Another house was used from 1947 until 1958, when land was donated for a permanent church. The first Mass was held on 28 November 1958. | [33][90] |
| St James's Church | 
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Ferndale, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°08′08″N 0°16′25″E / 51.1356°N 0.2735°E |
Anglican | II | Ewan Christian's local stone Decorated Gothic Revival church of 1860–62 cost £6,000. A north aisle was built 18 years later. A tall-spired tower stands at the northwest corner, and the chancel is apsidal. | [32][67] [91][92] [93][94] [95] |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 
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Ferndale, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°08′23″N 0°17′01″E / 51.1396°N 0.2837°E |
Latter-day Saint | – | The Tunbridge Wells Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was registered for the solemnisation of marriages in June 1989. | [96][97] |
| Five Oak Green United Church | 
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Five Oak Green 51°10′53″N 0°21′42″E / 51.1815°N 0.3618°E |
Anglican/United Reformed Church | – | The two denominations worshipped in separate buildings in the village until 1985. This building, which replaced the original Congregational chapel in 1925, became United Reformed in 1972. In 1985 a LEP was formed to bring the two congregations together in a "united church". | [98][99] [100] |
| The Meeting Hall | 
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Five Oak Green 51°11′15″N 0°21′48″E / 51.1876°N 0.3633°E |
Brethren | – | Overcrowding at the 120-capacity Brethren meeting hall on the Sherwood estate in Royal Tunbridge Wells meant that the group sought a larger building. Permission to convert a barn near Five Oak Green village into a place of worship was granted in 2004, a temporary building on the site was registered for marriages in October 2006, and its permanent replacement was registered in April 2013. | [29][101] [102][103] |
| St Mary's Church | .jpg)
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Frittenden 51°08′21″N 0°35′26″E / 51.1391°N 0.5905°E |
Anglican | II* | The Perpendicular Gothic church was wrecked by fire in 1790, and R.C. Hussey's restoration of 1846–48 was effectively a total rebuilding in brown sandstone. A north aisle was built in 1861, and the spire-topped tower was added 20 years later. | [104][105] [106] |
| St Mary's Church | .jpg)
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Goudhurst 51°06′49″N 0°27′42″E / 51.1137°N 0.4616°E |
Anglican | I | The large 13th-century sandstone church, with aisles to the naves and side chapels in the chancel, gained a Classical/Gothic tower in the 1630s and was restored in the 1860s by Slater and Carpenter. | [107][108] |
| Church of the Sacred Heart | 
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Goudhurst 51°06′56″N 0°28′11″E / 51.1156°N 0.4697°E |
Roman Catholic | – | Goudhurst's Catholic church was provided by a Miss Dashwood in 1882 in association for her "Home for Cripples" at the adjacent Oakley House. The brick and tile Vernacular-style chapel has a stuccoed interior. | [34][109] |
| St John the Baptist's Chapel | .JPG)
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Groombridge 51°07′05″N 0°11′08″E / 51.1180°N 0.1856°E |
Anglican | I | John Packer bought Groombridge Place from the 3rd Earl of Dorset in 1618, and built a private chapel in the grounds seven years later. Now the Anglican parish church of Old Groombridge, it was enlarged and restored in 1818 and 1895 but is otherwise unchanged: a simple Gothic chapel of red brick and orange-hued sandstone. | [67][110] [111] |
| Hawkenbury United Reformed Church | 
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Hawkenbury 51°07′35″N 0°16′52″E / 51.1264°N 0.2810°E |
United Reformed Church | – | Architects Potts, Sulman and Hennings designed this simple red-brick church in 1899. Extensions were built in a similar style in 1907 (a schoolroom) and 1926 (a hall). A Mr Le Lacheur paid for the building, whose tiled roof is topped by a turret. | [32][67] [112] |
| St Laurence's Church | 
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Hawkhurst 51°02′15″N 0°30′12″E / 51.0376°N 0.5032°E |
Anglican | I | Hawkhurst's parish church is distant from the village centre in The Moor area. "Long, bold and battlemented", it is a Perpendicular Gothic building of Kentish Ragstone with Decorated Gothic windows and a gigantic chancel arch of the 14th century. Slater and Christian restored the church in the 1850s. | [15][113] |
| Hawkhurst Baptist Church | .jpg)
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Hawkhurst 51°03′00″N 0°30′33″E / 51.0501°N 0.5091°E |
Baptist | – | An 18th-century Baptist cause was restarted in 1889. Small-scale meetings quickly grew, and Birmingham architect George Hawkes designed a large brick and stone Gothic Revival chapel in 1892–93. Local builder Lewis Edwards erected it for £1,620. | [114][115] [116] |
| St Barnabas' Church | .jpg)
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Hawkhurst 51°02′56″N 0°30′24″E / 51.0488°N 0.5066°E |
Roman Catholic | – | Hawkhurst's Roman Catholic church is one of three in the parish of Goudhurst, Hawkhurst and Horsmonden. Mass is celebrated on Sundays and Fridays. The church was registered for marriages in March 1965. | [117][118] [119] |
| St Matthew's Church | 
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High Brooms 51°09′02″N 0°16′27″E / 51.1506°N 0.2743°E |
Anglican | – | A mission church to St Peter's parish church in Southborough, built of brick in 1886, was superseded in 1902 by another red-brick building. The new church was immediately given its own parish. | [67][120] [22] |
| Tunbridge Wells Church of Christ | 
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High Brooms 51°08′52″N 0°16′31″E / 51.1477°N 0.2752°E |
Church of Christ | – | This modern building near High Brooms railway station is registered for worship by the Church of Christ denomination. | [67][121] |
| New Covenant Church | 
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High Brooms 51°09′06″N 0°16′20″E / 51.1516°N 0.2723°E |
Evangelical | – | Now registered for Evangelical worship under this name, the building started its religious life in 1898 as one of two Wesleyan Methodist chapels in Southborough parish. Designed by Herbert Murkin Caley and built by J. Jarvis using red brick and stone, it later became the Bethel Evangelical Free Church. | [22][122] [123] |
| St Margaret's Church | .jpg)
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Horsmonden 51°07′01″N 0°25′59″E / 51.1170°N 0.4330°E |
Anglican | I | Far distant from the village, with only oast houses around it, this early 14th-century church has a four-stage 15th-century at the west end and several large lancet windows to the nave. T.H. Wyatt carried out a restoration in 1867. | [124][125] |
| Horsmonden Methodist Church | 
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Horsmonden 51°08′23″N 0°25′37″E / 51.1398°N 0.4269°E |
Methodist | – | The present church building in the centre of the village has served Methodists across a wide area since 1965, but was originally built for Plymouth Brethren. Horsmonden's first Methodist chapel, a brick building of 1846 on the Goudhurst Road, was demolished in 1969. | [21][126] [127][128] |
| All Saints Church | .jpg)
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Horsmonden 51°08′49″N 0°26′11″E / 51.1470°N 0.4363°E |
Roman Catholic | II | Robert Wheeler designed this Early English Gothic Revival church in 1869 as a chapel of ease to St Margaret's Anglican church. The brick and tile building cost £1,600 and has a distinctive apse. Closed in 1970 and declared redundant in 1971, it was bought and rededicated by the Catholic Church in 1972. | [21][129] [130][131] [132] |
| Iden Green Congregational Church | .jpg)
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Iden Green, Benenden 51°03′27″N 0°34′26″E / 51.0575°N 0.5740°E |
Congregational Federation | – | Always a Congregational church, the present brick building of 1953 succeeds a war-damaged chapel nearby. This was a simple weatherboarded building with varnished interior walls. | [21][62] [133][134] |
| Christ Church | 
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Kilndown 51°05′27″N 0°25′37″E / 51.0908°N 0.4270°E |
Anglican | I | Anthony Salvin started building this church in 1839 on behalf of Viscount Beresford, but the Viscount's 20-year-old stepson Alexander Beresford Hope took over soon afterwards, turning the sandstone Gothic Revival building into "the Ecclesiological Society's showcase church" with its extensive interior decoration and lavish fittings. It was repaired after wartime bomb damage. | [135][136] [137] |
| St Mary's Church | 
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Lamberhurst 51°06′18″N 0°23′45″E / 51.1051°N 0.3957°E |
Anglican | I | Only an 18th-century mansion stands alongside the hilltop church east of the village. The 14th-century Decorated Gothic church has a Perpendicular Gothic tower and some 17th-century fittings. One lancet window may survive from an older building on the site. | [138][139] |
| Lamberhurst Strict Baptist Chapel | 
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Lamberhurst 51°05′56″N 0°23′23″E / 51.0989°N 0.3898°E |
Baptist | II | A chapel of 1816 was rebuilt in a Neoclassical style 1851 using grey/blue and red brick. The windows are round-arched, and a brick-dressed oculus pierces the pediment of the gable end. Original sash windows survive in a two-storey section at the rear. | [57][140] [141][142] [143] |
| All Saints Church | .JPG)
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Langton Green 51°07′55″N 0°12′17″E / 51.1319°N 0.2047°E |
Anglican | II* | George Gilbert Scott's sandstone church of 1864–66 has aisles on both sides of the nave and lancet windows breaking through a low-pitched roof, which also has a bellcote. Rich internal fittings include an alabaster reredos depicting the Supper at Emmaus. | [67][140] [144][145] |
| St Luke's Church | 
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Matfield 51°09′09″N 0°22′16″E / 51.1526°N 0.3711°E |
Anglican | II | Basil Champneys' budget for this wayside church was £2,000, which paid for a small building with a single aisle to the nave, a spire-topped timber bell-turret and a gabled entrance porch. The walls are of sandstone, and the windows have tracery in the Decorated Gothic style (one also has Kempe stained glass). | [146][147] [148] |
| Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel | 
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Matfield 51°09′10″N 0°22′22″E / 51.1528°N 0.3728°E |
Baptist | – | This Gospel Standard Strict Baptist chapel was registered for marriages in June 1937, replacing an earlier building on the same site. | [57][149] [150] |
| Church of King Charles the Martyr | 
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Mount Sion, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°07′36″N 0°15′33″E / 51.1267°N 0.2593°E |
Anglican | I | Famed for its intricate plaster ceilings supported on Ionic columns, this chapel was built between 1676 and 1690 and was only parished in the 1880s after Ewan Christian restored it. Several stories are linked to its alleged position overlapping three old parish boundaries. | [67][151] [152][153] [154][155] |
| Christ Church Centre | 
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Mount Sion, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°07′44″N 0°15′46″E / 51.1288°N 0.2629°E |
Anglican | – | R. Palmer Browne designed the first church in 1836–41 in a "coarse" Neo-Norman style using white brick at a cost of £8,500. Derelict by the 1990s, it was declared redundant in February 1996, demolished and replaced with the present combined church and commercial development which retains the Christ Church name. | [67][92] [131][156] [157][158] |
| First Church of Christ, Scientist | 
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Mount Sion, Royal Tunbridge Wells 51°07′30″N 0°15′27″E / 51.1251°N 0.2574°E |
Christian Scientist | – | This denomination worshipped in the town from 1931, when a "highly interesting" concrete-framed circular building by Cecil Burns was built on the London Road. After that was sold in 1959, the congregation moved to this new building on Linden Park Road. | [159][160] |
| St Andrew's Church | 
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Paddock Wood 51°10′35″N 0°23′07″E / 51.1763°N 0.3852°E |
Anglican/Methodist | – | Local architect Cecil Burns designed this replacement church in 1953, on a different site from its bombed predecessor of 1860. The red-brick building is Gothic in style but "without historical precedent". A stumpy octagonal tower with an internal dome separates the nave and chancel. It was registered for marriages as a joint church in 1982. | [161][162] [163][164] |
| Paddock Wood Christian Fellowship | 
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Paddock Wood 51°10′47″N 0°23′05″E / 51.1797°N 0.3847°E |
Assemblies of God | – | Founded as Paddock Wood Pentecostal Church in 1958, two years after meetings began at a mobile church, this Pentecostalist congregation took its present name in 1994. The building dates from 1960. | [165][166] [167] |
| St Justus' Church | 
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Paddock Wood 51°10′46″N 0°23′03″E / 51.1795°N 0.3841°E |
Roman Catholic | – | Paddock Wood's first Roman Catholic church was built in 1950 and registered for the solemnisation of marriages in August 1951. It became the church hall when a larger building was constructed alongside; this opened in 1981. | [168][169] [170] |
| St Peter's Old Church | 
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Pembury 51°09′46″N 0°19′31″E / 51.1628°N 0.3253°E |
Anglican | I | The brown sandstone church is isolated from modern Pembury, standing in fields 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the north. It combines Norman and 14th-century work, although a restoration in 1887 affected the appearance of the interior. | [171][172] |
| St Peter's Upper Church
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