All Saints' Church, Staplehurst is the
Anglican parish church
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in the village of
Staplehurst, Kent,
England
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. It was founded in the 12th century and was enlarged during the 13th to 15th centuries. The church is situated at the south end of the village, on the east side of the High Street, a
Roman Road now designated as the
A229
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.
The church was mainly built in the 12th and 13th centuries, and the West Tower was commenced about 1425. It is a Grade I listed building. One of the notable features of the church is the south door, which is thought to date to the 12th century, and displays some very fine early ironwork.
The church features a
ring of ten bells, the oldest cast in 1605 and the most recent being two cast in 1996, when a new steel frame was installed. The current church clock dates from 1888. Owen Jennings of
Cox & Barnard, a
stained glass designing and manufacturing firm based in
Hove
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, made six windows for the church in 1952. Those in the north chapel (one single-light and one two-light window) and the north aisle (three two-light windows) have heraldic badges and emblems, and another two-light window in the north aisle has a
Nativity scene.
The rector is the Revd Silke Tetzlaff.
File:All Saints Church, Staplehurst - interior - geograph.org.uk - 915199.jpg, Church interior
File:Saxon Door - geograph.org.uk - 188896.jpg, Saxon Door
See also
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Grade I listed buildings in Maidstone
There are 42 Grade I listed buildings in Maidstone. The Borough of Maidstone is a local government district in the English county of Kent. The district covers a largely rural area of between the North Downs and the Weald with the town ...
References
External links
Official website
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Church of England church buildings in Kent
Borough of Maidstone
Grade I listed churches in Kent
12th-century church buildings in England
Diocese of Canterbury