St Michael and All Angels Church, Maidstone

St Michael and All Angels Church is a parish church in Maidstone, Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

Building

St Margaret's Church is located on the Tonbridge Road, relatively close to Oakwood Park Grammar School.
The church was originally intended to be dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
The building constructed of Kentish ragstone with Bath Stone dressings and red tile roof coverings. There is a 74 ft castellated tower at its western end; complete with a round stair turret as was a common feature in Kent's medieval churches.

History

St Margaret's Church was completed in 1876 to the design of the architect Arthur Blomfield by the contractors Messrs George Naylor of Rochester in Early English and Decorated Gothic style.
The church was intended to cater for Maidstone's rapidly expanding suburbs on the western side of the River Medway after the existing parish church of St. Peter's was proving to be far too small. Located next to the west bank of the river, St. Peter's was also a long way from where the new districts of Westborough and Fant were being built.