Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church located on Whitfield Road, dating from the 8th or 10th century, with extensions made around 1200. It was restored in 1894 by Ewan Christian. The building features flint walls and plain tiled roofs, comprising a nave, north aisles, chancel and sanctuary, a south porch, and a vestry. There is a blocked west doorway with visible flint jambs and a small round-headed gable light, both likely from the 8th century. The church has C12 lancet cuts into the doorhead, and a flint-jambed double-splayed window above the south porch reveals remnants of an arcade in the south wall. The east window of the north aisle includes a double lancet and roundel, while the rest of the windows are from the 19th century. The porch, north aisle, and chancel were all constructed in the 19th century, featuring a shingled bell turret.

Inside, the nave and chancel date back to the 8th century, with exposed remains of a C12 arcade in the south wall that once led to a demolished south aisle, supported by round piers. The chancel arch is a simple tall round-headed structure altered in 1894, with a surviving round-arched opening on round responds featuring scalloped capitals. Part of the south arcade now leads to the 19th-century vestry. The nave to north aisle arcade is also from the 19th century, with double chamfered arches on a round pier, and the roofs are from the same period.

Notable monuments include those of Lucy and George Stringer (1821 and 1839), featuring a large black and white neo-classical wall monument with an oval plaque and urn above, and a white wall plaque for Harriett Stringer-Latham, who died in 1825, designed as a sarcophagus with reeded side pieces and a pediment over. The church bell, said to be the oldest in Kent, dates back to the 13th century. Since 1971, the church has been reorganised with a centralised plan, moving the altar to the north aisle facing south, while the old chancel and sanctuary have been converted into vestry and school rooms.