Church Micro 246...Kingsnorth Traditional Geocache

There has been a Church in Kingsnorth from Saxon Times but the present building probably dates from the 11thC. It's a Norman Church, built from Kentish ragstone
There are examples of 13thC and 14thC stained glass remaining in some of the windows.
The chancel was rebuilt in the 18thC following a storm and the two side chapels were demolished at this time.
Major restoration was carried out in the 19thC at which time the stained glass in the East Window was installed.

Kingsnorth parish church is a Grade: I listed building, dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels Originally constructed around 1259 and largely rebuilt in the 15th century. In 1552, there is a record of three bells in the tower. Samuel Knight recast the bells into a ring of five in 1728. In 1798, Edward Hasted described the Kingsnorth church as ‘small, consisting only of one isle and one chancel, having a square tower steeple at the west end, in which are five bells’. In 1976, Whitechapel incorporated three bells from St Nicholas, Rochester – a tenor cast by Joseph Hatch in 1654, a Treble by James Bartlett in 1695 and another in 1914 by Mears and Stainbank – with the old treble and the other four recast into two, forming a ring of six.



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