All Saints Church, Waldershare

All Saints Church stands in the quiet countryside of Kent, three miles north of Dover beside the A256. The 12th-century building is a flint and rubble nave with red-brick chapels added in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The North Downs Way crosses the mossy churchyard where a lychgate marks the entrance. Inside, the nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1886 by Ewan Christian and again in 1902. A Norman window survives in the south chancel wall while the chapels hold 15th-century two-light windows. The church is kept by the Churches Conservation Trust and holds notable monuments. Sir Peregrine Bertie’s 1697 tomb in the south chapel shows effigies of himself and his wife beneath railings. The north chapel contains a three-stage monument to Sir Henry Furnese, carved in four marbles with mourning women and putti. Clayton and Bell painted the sanctuary walls in 1886, and Victorian stained glass fills the windows. Visitors find a double-chamfered chancel arch and wooden barrel roofs over the chapels. Two damaged piscinae stand in nave and chancel, and 19th-century screens divide the chapels. Outside, the churchyard shelters a Grade II tomb chest for gardener William Hull and a headstone for housekeeper Mrs Elizabeth Harman.