The Brooke Benefice

The church is the sole survivor of three churches, the rectors date from 1317. The church doorway is circa 1190 and the church was mostly rebuilt in 1864. Kirstead St Margaret is dedicated to the patron saint of pregnant women, childbirth and of the dying Margaret (or Marina) of Antioch, who was possibly martyred in the persecution of Diocletian in the 4th century. Her ordeal with the Devil in the…