St. Peter, St. Peter's, Kent

Description

The church of St. Peter, originally erected about 1070 as a chapel to Minster, is of flint, in the Norman and Early English styles, with later insertions, and has a tower with 8 bells: in 1887 the tower was restored, the bells re-cast and a new clock with chimes added, at a total cost of £1,110: there are some ancient brasses, a marble tablet to Thomas Sheridan M.A. elocutionist and lexicographer, father of the Right Hon. R. Brinsley Sheridan, who died at Margate 14 August, 1788, and a memorial window erected to Catherine (Spooner) wife of the late Archbishop Tait, d. 1 Dec. 1878, and to his son, Crawfurd Tait: vestries were added in 1903 at a cost of £1,200 by the late Clifford J. Brookes esq. J.P. of The Convent, in memory of his brother, Thomas Brookes esq.: new choir stalls and pulpit of oak were provided in 1905: the church has been restored, and affords 750 sittings.

Church Records

The register of St. Peter's dates from the year 1582.