The Church of St Margaret of Antioch at

Darenth Darenth is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located 3.4 miles south east of Dartford and 4.6 miles north east of Swanley. History The parish was part of Axstane Hundred and later Dartford Rural Dis ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, is a church with Norman origins thought to be the third oldest in Kent and the sixth oldest in the United Kingdom. It is a

Grade I listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. The chancel and nave are late 10th century or early 11th century. The sanctuary is early 12th century. The church was restored twice in the 19th century, first by

William Burges William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...

in 1866-68 and then by Ewan Christian in 1888. Newman describes the church as "important, but visually rather charmless."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Darenth, Saint Margaret of Antioch Church of England church buildings in Kent English churches with Norman architecture Grade I listed churches in Kent William Burges church buildings 10th-century church buildings in England Diocese of Rochester