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A place of worship for the Knights Hospitallers

A huge 13th-century tower dominates this Medieval church in a quiet location on the Kent Downs. The church has very close links with the Knights Hospitallers whose Commandery still stands across the fields. The church has much to discover, including:

• a 14th-century porch with two Medieval ‘Mass Dials’ (sundials to tell the service times);
• a 14th-century font which was rescued from a garden in 1914;
• two 20th-century stained glass windows. The West window contains birds, flowers, a squirrel and a rabbit, the fine South window depicts The Crucifixion.

St Peter’s has been enlarged and changed over the centuries. There are a clear Victorian influences seen in the North aisle, the pulpit, the altar table and the chancel arch and the pews, and some 20th-century additions also. However, despite this, the church still retains many original traces of its Medieval past.

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