St Catherine's Church, Preston-next-Faversham is an Anglican church in the Preston area of the town of

Faversham Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient British t ...

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, England.

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in the ''Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches'' described St Catherine's as "high and distinguished among the railways and breweries". The church in its current form originates from the

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, though there was extensive restoration work in the 1860s. It was designated as a

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in 1950.

References

External links

St Catherine's Church on the Faversham website
– archived in 2011
Official website
– archived in 2018 Preston Next Faversham Preston Next Faversham Churches in Faversham Preston Next Faversham} {{England-church-stub