St Margaret's Church, Collier Street

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St Margaret's Church, Collier Street
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Location within Kent
51°11′16″N0°27′20″E / 51.187714°N 0.455627°E / 51.187714; 0.455627
Location Collier Street, Kent
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website yaldingchurches.co.uk/collier-street-1
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II
Designated14 October 1987 [1]
Completed1848
Administration
Province Canterbury
Diocese Rochester
Archdeaconry Tonbridge
Deanery Paddock Wood
Parish St. Margaret Collier Street [2] [3]

St Margaret's Church is a parish church in the village of Collier Street, Kent, England. [4] [2] [5] It is a Grade II listed building. [1]

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Building

St Margaret's Church is located next to the junction between Green Lane and the B2162.

The building is Grade II listed, built in a 13th century style, set in a ragstone walled churchyard (closed by order in council). [4]

History

St. Margaret’s was built as a daughter church of Yalding in 1848. Collier Street became a parish in its own right in 1858 and remained a sole living until 1969 when it was reunited with Yalding to become the United Benefice of Yalding with Laddingford and Collier Street. [4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, Collier Street - 1069047 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  2. 1 2 "St Margaret". www.achurchnearyou.com.
  3. "Collier Street: St Margaret - Parish Data". CUF.
  4. 1 2 3 "Collier Street". Yalding Churches.
  5. "'Photograph of St Margaret's Church, Collier Street, Tonbridge, Kent', John Piper, [c.1930s–1980s] – Tate Archive". Tate.