Church of England in rural Kent: visitors to All Saints Church Biddenden

Welcome to All Saints Church Biddenden, in the diocese of Canterbury.

Location: High Street, Biddenden, Kent TN27 8QD.
This page gives opening times and an introduction to the church's history.

All Saints is open to visitors between 10.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Saturday during the summer months (from Easter to end of September), in addition to Sunday services and the Wednesday 10am Eucharist.

Each Thursday morning all year round, refreshments are served to visitors and Biddenden residents alike. All are welcome.

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 be essentially that built 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.

If you would like to join the team of welcomers who provide a daily presence in the church, please contact Anne Giles on 01580 291762.