All Saints

Octagonal piers and arches moulded with double wave to nave arcade: C15 to north side and 1962 to south.

Victorian floor tiles of the original plan survive, and the chancel has a handsome decorative tiled floor

1890s lectern, a gift of a former vicar, features marble colonettes, and oak lectern apparently made out of timber from the medieval roof.

A number of late-C19 and early-C20 stained glass windows: of note are the Browning Memorial window of 1925 in the north wall which shows a red-sailed traditional Thames barge, as well as a shell and a starfish, over St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read

South wall has a brass memorial tablet to Thomas Brede, d.1444.

World War I and World War II memorial tablets with names in the north aisle, and a memorial window dedicated to parishioners who died in WWI.

Medieval stone font with hexagonal shaft and basin on moulded base in south west corner has early C17 font cover with ogee profile and crocketed ribs, recently shown to have a painted underside, and featuring coats of arms.

History: there has been a church on this site since the C13.

The medieval fabric that survives today is the plain but imposing Perpendicular tower and four bay north arcade (as well as possibly the piscina which may have been reset in the new chancel).

Sources Newman, J., Buildings of England, North East and East Kent , 495 All Saints Church Whitstable, 'A Short Guide' Reasons for Designation All Saints church, Whitstable, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Perpendicular tower and nave arcade, and possibly piscina and font, constitute C15 fabric of more than special interest

TR1166 : All Saints Church, Whitstable, Kent - Font

© John Salmon

* Group value with the Grade II monuments in the churchyard: the Wynn Ellis Mausoleum (LBS 468924) of 1875, also by Charles Barry Junior, the Walter Goodsall Burial Enclosure (LBS 468925) of 1913, and the C18 headstones with skull, hourglass and bone motifs