St Catherine's Church, Preston-next-Faversham is an
Anglican church
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
in the
Preston area of the town of
Faversham
Faversham () is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, 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 road (Great ...
in
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.
Sir John Betjeman 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
Norman period, though there was
extensive restoration work in the 1860s. It was designated as a
Grade II* listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
in 1950.
References
External links
St Catherine's Church on the Faversham website– archived in 2011
Official website– archived in 2018
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