Church of King Charles the Martyr

The Church of King Charles the Martyr is a church of England parish church in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It is a Grade I listed building. In the 1670s, Tunbridge Wells had few everlasting systems while it started out to get hold of visits from individuals of the English Royal Family. The church was built on land belonging to Viscountess Purbeck as a chapel of ease for those touring The Pantiles and become opened in 1676 after being constructed by means of Thomas Neale. It become dedicated to King Charles the Martyr: the cult of Charles I, who become completed in 1649 and whose son Charles II have been restored in 1660.

While it turned into a chapel of ease, it served the parishes of Frant, Speldhurst and Tonbridge. When it was constructed, the church turned into the primary good sized constructing constructed in Tunbridge Wells. The church had no resident vicar until 1709, and trusted journeying monks to conduct services. As Tunbridge Wells increased, so did the church. After new parishes were created for the expanding metropolis, the location of the chapel have become an anomaly and it sooner or later have become itself a parish church in 1889, however with an strangely small parochial region. It have been visited by using the younger Queen Victoria with her mother the Duchess of Kent, and a plaque changed into set up to commemorate this on the pew they sat in.