Maidstone Unitarian Church

Type:Church / Chapel

13 Market Buildings, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1HP
Maidstone Unitarian Church

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A Grade II listed building that first opened in 1736 as a meeting house for dissenting Presbytarians.

The Rev Willian Hazlitt, father of William Hazlitt Essayist and Critic, was Minister of this church between 1770 and 1780.

The Church has a remarkable architectural feature of a suspended ceiling (being held up by an inverted tree trunk). It also has a Bevington organ.

Originally a square meeting house, it was extended in 1921 to incorporated stained glass windows to honour members of the congregation who were killed in the First World War.

The front of the building, the gallery and the pulpit are listed, and the church was renovated and painted inside in the 1990s with colours that would have been used when the building was erected.

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Season (1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026)

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