St Stephen's Church, Chatham , Kent

St Stephen's Church, Chatham Church

Image Source: Rob Baker

St. Stephen's sits on a prominent position at the Huntsman's corner road junction around one mile south of the town centre on the main Chatham to Maidstone road. It was built between 1958 and 1959 and designed by the former King's architect Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher. Prior to 1959 the community had met in a small church in nearby Wallace Road. This Mission Church was built in 1934 and remained in use as a hall until 1993 when it was sold and demolished. The interior seems to reflect both traditional ecclesiastical ideas. The altar faces east although the design of the chancel window appears to be quite modernist in its approach. The simple stained-glass window in the north chapel came from the original Mission Church in Wallace Road following its demolition in 1993. In 2005 a modern stained-glass window designed by artist Glenn Carter was installed on the south side of the nave to commemorate 1400 years of the Diocese of Rochester and more significantly the first 70 years of St. Stephen's history. Throughout its existence the tower has always been topped with a distinctive large wooden cross - although the current one is a 2016 replacement as the previous one had begun to rot. Text by Rob Baker

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Architecture Details

Original Build Date/Architect: 1967, A B Knapp-Fisher

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