St Peter
Sandwich, Kent
A landmark church that still rings a curfew.
The church has a substantial Norman tower with three tiers of blind arcading topped by castellations. The pillars that support the rounded arches have curiously carved capitals with various ornaments of scrolls, foliage and grotesque figures.
The body of the church is square and the aisles are wide, creating a spacious feeling emphasised by the large organ that divides the south side of the church in two. In St Margaret's Chapel there is a complete medieval tiled floor, and the Chapel of St George contains a statue of St John taken from Lincoln Cathedral by Puritans in the 17th century.
The roof of the nave has a series of angel heads with wings and decorated bosses against the oak rafters. The octagonal heraldic font has on one of its faces the arms of ancient Sandwich, and on the south face, the arms of Archdeacon Robert Hallum, by whom it is believed gave the font to the church in 1406.