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St Michael and All Angels Church is a parish church in
Maidstone Maidstone is the largest Town status in the United Kingdom, town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, l ...
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Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...
, England. It is a Grade II listed building.


Building

St Margaret's Church is located on the Tonbridge Road ( A26), relatively close to Oakwood Park Grammar School. The church was originally intended to be dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. The building constructed of Kentish ragstone with Bath Stone dressings and red tile roof coverings. There is a 74ft castellated tower at its western end; complete with a round stair turret as was a common feature in Kent's medieval churches.


History

St Margaret's Church was completed in 1876 to the design of the architect
Arthur Blomfield Sir Arthur William Blomfield (6 March 182930 October 1899) was an English architect. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 and vice-president of the RIBA in ...
by the contractors Messrs George Naylor of Rochester in Early English and Decorated Gothic style. The church was intended to cater for Maidstone's rapidly expanding suburbs on the western side of the River Medway after the existing parish church of St. Peter's (now disused as a church but in secular use as a nursery) was proving to be far too small. Located next to the west bank of the river, St. Peter's was also a long way from where the new districts of Westborough and Fant were being built.


See also

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List of churches in Kent This is a list of churches in Kent, a county in South East England, South East Region of England. There is a mixture of Christian denominations. East Kent *Ashford,_Kent, Ashford - St Teresa's Roman Catholic Church *Ashford,_Kent, Ashford (So ...
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Maidstone Maidstone is the largest Town status in the United Kingdom, town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, l ...


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