St. Edmund's Church, Temple Hill, opened in 1956. It is the newest of the parish churches in Dartford. In 1951 a Sunday School was started on the Temple Hill Estate shortly after the houses had been built on Attlee Drive. By 1952, a small group of estate residents met in the community centre and decided to build what is now St. Edmund's Church. St. Edmund's was the first single purpose church to be built in the diocese of Rochester since the Second World War. The foundation stone was laid on 10 September 1955. The church was consecrated by the bishop of Rochester on the Feast of St. Edmund in 1956.
One of the most prominent features of the church is the high bell tower. The bell housed in it came from a bombed-out London church.
Definitely another one of the interesting Church Buildings in Dartford.
Cache can be found at:
N51 27. B (A+B) A
E000 13. (A+B) C (A+C)
Cache is a magnetic film pot.