Guess the Place

[MartinR]

Any chance of a bit more info Cat?  Searching on the Internet I've found the New Covenant Church, Gravesend branch which is in Dunkirk Close.  Then there's the New Covenant Church, Gravesend on Rochester Road, just opposite St. John's RC primary school.  Trouble is, according to Google that one is Pentecostal, again not RC.  Google also turns up a reference to Holy Family Church, Palmer Ave, Gravesend which is thinks is the same as the Rochester Road one.  I'm confused!

[CAT]

That's its current name following its rededication back to the Catholic faith after its restoration in 1940. Thought to date from approx. 1100, its link with Dode chapel was a Mr Arnold, who restored both Dode and this church, which was originally the parish church of Denton (other Denton is between Canterbury and Dover). Originally dedicated to St Mary, it had fallen into ruin by the sixteenth century after the village shrunk/moved. By the later fourteenth century a new church dedicated to SS Peter & Paul had been built, literally up the road, sealing the fate of St Mary's even further. The view I posted was from the late eighteenth century from the north looking south with the arch being the chancel arch with the ruined chancel to the left.


Well done John Walker, over to you

[John Walker]

How about the New Covenant Church, Denton, Gravesend ?

[CAT]

Your heading the right way John Walker. I can see your thinking, but you have to be heading further north

[John Walker]

St Benedict's Church, Paddlesworth ?

[CAT]

Don't know why the size has altered, but should read

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[CAT]

Neither Little Chart, or Murston.


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[pete.mason]

Little Chart? The ruins ruined by a V1

[Diapason]

Murston?

[CAT]

Neither of those John Walker and Lutonman. The church is still within its associated village, though this has changes dramatically in the modern age. It is supposed it’s ruination during the mid medieval period caused a new church to be built nearby, itself a very active church.

[Lutonman]

St Mary's Church Street Cliffe area?

[John Walker]

St Marys, Burham.  In a deserted village?

[CAT]

It's not Elmley Pete. It's on the Kentish 'mainland' and was a ruin until the early twentieth century when it was restored to full working order, but there is a twist to its full working order.

[pete.mason]

Elmley Church?

[CAT]

I’m afraid you are both at the wrong end of the county John Walker and Diapason. Head northwest(ish) almost towards the waters edge