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St Johns Church in the Kent village of Swalecliffe

St John`s was designed by Robert Wheeler of Brenchley, a noted Victorian architect, and built by Cephus Foad of Whitstable. It`s a small attractive building, surrounded by trees and within sight of the sea. The church is on the footprint of a much earlier Norman building, which it was designed to resemble. Traces of an even earlier, possibly Saxon, structure were discovered during rebuilding work carried out in 1876.