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Stone Chapel, Faversham , Kent


Stone Chapel lies just north of the A2, west of Faversham, Kent.

In 1967, the Sittingbourne and Swale Archaeological Research Group, which at that time was made up largely of schoolboys, asked to be allowed to clean up the site, which had probably not been touched since it had been excavated in Victorian times.

They advanced on the jungle of foliage, and were rewarded, many nettle-stings and bramble-scratches later, by the re-emergence of the chapel ruins.


The sight that greeted us on the first day...

The ruined walls of the chapel rise, just about, above a sea of nettles and brambles.

A couple of days later...

...the floor of the chapel is reached.

The outside of the east end

The east end during cleaning

...and after excavation by Colonel Meates.

Stone Chapel as it is today

Ralph on the left, a future professor of archaeology on the right

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