St Mary's Church, Walmer.
St Mary's or The Church of St Mary the Virgin in St Clare Road, Walmer was designed by Arthur Blomfield in 1887 to take the pressure off the parish's two other churches, the small medieval Old St Mary's and St Saviour's, a Victorian chapel for fishermen on Walmer seafront. Although a spire was designed, it was never added.

In the spacious interior, the main west window portrays nautical episodes of Christ's life, the instruments of the passion, and Saints Peter and Paul. Both aisles have five sets of three lancets each; those on the north show saints and apostles and those on the south show Old Testament figures. Above the the high altar at the east end are tall lancet windows depicting the Ascension, framed by mosaic images of an angel on the left captioned Sperate (hope for) and another on the right captioned Surgite (arise).

photo:
Harold Wyld