Registers:	
                      Baptisms: 1558 - 1952
                      Marriages: 1558 - 1976
                      Burials: 1558 - 1959
		      Archdeacons' Transcripts:
		      CMB: 1563 - 1812
		      Bishops' Transcripts:
		      CMB: 1603 - 1813
		      Bishops' Transcripts II:
		      CB: 1813 - 1878, 1885 - 1907
		      M: 1813 - 1837

This is a very large Church for the size of the Village. It must have seemed huge a hundred or more years ago when the main part of the Village consisted of the stretch of older houses and cottages that follow the road from the Church down to the Valley Road. Much of the present Village is quite modern and has been built post W.W.II and spreads out along Valley Road that follows the Nailbourne through from Elham to Kingston and beyond. The size and grandeur of many country churches would have depended on their benefactors and the wealth of the local residents. In this case, there has been a string of wealthy families associated with this location and in recent times, that of the Oxenden family.

The Church consists of the tower, with it's very tall green spire, the Nave and Chancel, a South Aisle and North and South Transepts in the centre of the Church, making it, as every reference I have on the Church says, cruciform in shape. The large dimensions of the Church are probably accentuated by the fact that there is no arch or rood screen to separate the Chancel from the Nave. The huge roof beams, ties and posts, many of them original 14th Century, almost seem to go on for ever. The small Church guide does state that its records do record mention of there having been a rood screen at one time but there is no actual physical evidence of there having been one.

Again, the Church guide suggests that there has been a Church here since the 9th Century but the present structure was probably started in the 12th Century although Syms in his book about Kent Country Churches states that there is a hint of possible Norman construction at the base of the present tower. The bulk of the Church covers the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular periods of building. The font (pictured left) is 14th Century and the lovely wooden cover is Jacobean. The very ordinary pews replace much earlier box pews.

The Altar and the majority of the glass is modern. In the Northwest corner is a small 13th Century window containing modern glass depicting St. George slaying the dragon and dedicated to the 23th Signal Company.

The Church contains a White Ensign which was presented to it by Viscount Broome, a local resident. The Ensign was from 'H.M.S. Raglan' which was commanded by Viscount Broome. The ship was sunk in January, 1918 by the German light cruiser 'Breslau'.