Reculver Beach Photo

The demolished church at Reculver

From Pevsner's North east and East Kent, written by John Newman ... The Saxon church, the latest of the group built in the C7 by Saint Augustine and his converts, remained until as recently as 1809 almost intact. Then, most scandalously, in the bitter words of the parish clerk, "Mr C.C. Nailor been vicar of the parish, his mother fancied that the church was kept for a poppet show, and she persuaded her son to take it down"; ... ... so we are left with little more than the foundations, and the austere two-towered west facade added late in the C12 and spared to be a sea mark on the cliff tops for ships in the Thames estuary.

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