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Biddenden, Kent - All Saints Church
Biddenden, Kent - All Saints Church

All Saints Biddenden is well worth a stop for people visiting nearby Sissinghurst Castle Garden. There is evidence that there was a church in Biddenden at the time of the Norman conquest in 1066, but it was not the one we see now. Today’s church is believed to have been built largely in the mid to late 1200s of local sandstone, with some later use of Kentish ragstone, flint and “Bethersden marble”.

But construction work did not stop in the 1200s. All Saints was enlarged and re-ordered according to the village’s increasing prosperity, transient political ideologies or simply the changing needs and pressures of modern life.

The building you admire today is essentially by, for and about the people who shaped it. Throughout its 700-year history you will encounter religious upheaval and extravagant philantropy, martyrdom and legendary personalities. Their lives have woven a thread of continuity through this place of worship that has stood at the community’s heart for hundreds of years.


www.sbcofe.org/churches/biddenden/

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Taken on: May 15, 2010
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