About Us

Welcome to All Saints Church Biddenden, Diocese of Canterbury

Address: High Street, Biddenden, Kent TN27 8AJ
Directions: see map below.

Visitor opening times:

October 2020: The Church has sustained structural damage due to movement in the north wall. We are very sorry but we are now required to keep the church closed to the public, when not used for services or community groups (see below). There is no unsupervised access.

Note: for information on baptisms, weddings, funerals or burials please see Special Services.

All Saints, Biddenden is well worth a stop for people visiting nearby Sissinghurst Castle Garden. There is evidence that there was a church in Biddenden at the time of the Norman conquest in 1066, but it was not the one we see now. Today’s church is believed to have been built largely in the mid to late 1200s of local sandstone, with some later use of Kentish ragstone, flint and “Bethersden marble”.

But construction work did not stop in the 1200s. All Saints was enlarged and re-ordered according to the village’s increasing prosperity, transient political ideologies or simply the changing needs and pressures of modern life.

The building you admire today is essentially by, for and about the people who shaped it. Throughout its 700-year history you will encounter religious upheaval and extravagant philanthropy, martyrdom and legendary personalities. Their lives have woven a thread of continuity through this place of worship that has stood at the community’s heart for hundreds of years.

Find out out more in the history booklet, available in the church.