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St Michael and All Angels Church, Maidstone
St Michael and All Angels Church is a parish church in Maidstone, Kent, England.[4][3] It is a Grade II listed building.[1] BuildingSt Margaret's Church is located on the Tonbridge Road (A26), relatively close to Oakwood Park Grammar School. The church was originally intended to be dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.[2] The building constructed of Kentish ragstone with Bath Stone dressings and red tile roof coverings. There is a 74ft castellated tower at its western end; complete with a round stair turret as was a common feature in Kent's medieval churches.[1] HistorySt Margaret's Church was completed in 1876 to the design of the architect Arthur Blomfield by the contractors Messrs George Naylor of Rochester in Early English and Decorated Gothic style.[1][2] The church was intended to cater for Maidstone's rapidly expanding suburbs on the western side of the River Medway after the existing parish church of St. Peter's (now disused as a church but in secular use as a nursery) was proving to be far too small. Located next to the west bank of the river, St. Peter's was also a long way from where the new districts of Westborough and Fant were being built.[2][5] See alsoReferences
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