St Peter and St Paul Church, Tonbridge

Image: © Richard Rogerson Taken: 7 Oct 2011

Probably originating in the 11th century on the site of an earlier Saxon Church, the chancel was enlarged in the 13th Century to form the body of the present. At the same time the nave was extended and the squat tower built. The next major building project took place in the 14th Century, when the side chapel of St Nicholas was added. This meant that by the 15th Century the church was much larger, with a north and, later, a south aisle added and the tower extended. In 1877 the nave and south aisle were rebuilt : the work of Ewan Christian, a famous Victorian architect, who later built the National Portrait Gallery (but whose main work was ecclesiastical, with Carlisle Cathedral and Christ Church, Spitalfields among the many he worked on). The church has a weeping chancel

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