Just south of Newchurch on Romney Marsh, is a small grave-like marker by the side of the road. It commemorates Pilot Officer Arthur William Clarke, who crashed near there during the Battle of Britain. He was just 20 years old.
St. Peter and St. Paul's church. The church is generally open 9.30 –
5.00
A Newchurch village history display is in the north chapel. The display, researched and presented by local residents, includes information panels and a collection of implements formerly used in and around the village.
Lovely parish chest
Newchurch contains one of the Marsh Mosaics. Each one is unique to the church that contains it, and is a microcosm of the parish it resides in
The magnificent font bears the emblems of St Peter and St Paul together with the roses of York and Lancaster and the Tudor rose, suggesting that it was made soon after the Wars of the Roses during the reign of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
One of the shields is carved with crossed keys
to represent St Peter, and another has a sword, the symbol of St Paul.
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