Architectural Features
Pews are Victorian and south wall has two deep splayed window surrounds for the single lancets of simple coloured glass
West wall has deep set window with single lancet coloured glass window of St. Alphege over doorway with depressed arch.
Marble monuments to Sarah Hyder of Court Lees d.1836
History: The dedication to St. Alphege, the Saxon archbishop, is an unusual one nationally and especially associated with Kent.
St. Alphege was murdered by Danes at Greenwich and brought to Canterbury Cathedral in 1023.
The church on this site was first built in the late C12.
The nave of the medieval church was pulled down and the chancel was made into a burial chapel.
Source J. Newman, Buildings of England, North East and East Kent, p.454 Reasons for Designation St Alphege's Church, Whitstable, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Early English fabric from the chancel of former church constitutes fragmentary medieval survival of special interest