Churches in KentKent, England

Mother church of English Christianity, soaring Gothic.

Seat of England's second-oldest bishopric, founded in 604, with a Norman west front and a large crypt, across the green from the castle.

Marsh church with a detached candle-snuffer bell tower and a rare Norman lead font showing the labours of the months.

Tiny estate church beside Lullingstone Castle, rich with family monuments and a rare painted rood screen.

Pink-washed box pews and a sloping floor in a church used in the film Dr Syn, one of the marsh's finest.

Marsh church with a fine Tudor alabaster monument, on the road across Walland Marsh.

Hillside church above Hythe whose vaulted ambulatory crypt holds a stacked ossuary of medieval skulls and bones.

Marshland church with a carved medieval oak screen, near the Gad's Hill home of Charles Dickens.

Whitewashed church standing alone in the marsh, once reached only by boat, with box pews and a triple-decker pulpit.

Remote marsh church with a medieval ship painted on the wall, once a store for the parson-smuggler's contraband.

The 'cathedral of the marsh', a large light Perpendicular church that dwarfs its tiny village.

Church holding the finest collection of medieval memorial brasses in England, beside the old Cobham college.

Downland church below the Wye scarp keeping a rare cycle of early-13th-century wall paintings around its chancel.

Big Norman and Early English church with carved choir stalls, beside the working Minster Abbey.

Big Norman church whose pillars still carry the silt tidemark of the great storm that ended Romney's harbour in 1287.

Church set apart from its village in King's Wood, its interior painted with mid-20th-century murals.