Holy Cross

In the late 1200s the Archbishop of Canterbury established a college here for a master and six canons (priests), which accounts for the large size of this church, and also accounts for the timber framed houses opposite, which were where the master and his canons lived.

Kent's finest Norman church, with some of the best Norman decorative stonework in Britain.

With a handsome broach spire and walls of flint, stone and brick, St John's is set in a large and attractive churchyard.