St. Mary The Virgin Church in Little Chart (Chart being Old English for Cert - "rough ground" and Little differentiating it from Chart Sutton and Chartham) is a Grade II listed building. In August 1944 it was hit by a German flying bomb effectively ending its active life. You'll find records of hundreds of burials here but sadly only around fifteen surviving legible stones. Records show a place of worship on this site from the 11th Century and the gradual expansion of the physical building until that fateful night in August 1944.
These pictures are from ten years ago and the last time I went past the car park was blocked off and fencing was around the main building due to risk of falling masonry (I presume from the recent Storm Eunice). Rev'd Sandra Marsh advises me that the site is now owned by English Heritage so I hope the necessary repair work takes place.
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