KCOA Visits List

SS Peter & Paul, Shorne & Christ Church, Gravesend

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 - 14:00

We start at St Peter and St Paul, Butchers Hill, Shorne, DA12 3EB (last visited in 2008) at 2pm, a church going back to Anglo-Saxon times with an interesting two-manual Victorian instrument by Hopkins & Son of York, restored in 1985. We then continue to Christ Church, Old Road East,

St Thomas, Rainham

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 - 14:00

Christmas Lunch

Sat, 05 Dec 2026 - 12:30

This year's Christmas Lunch will take place once again at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, which has served us so well in the past. The bar will be open from 12.00 noon, there will be a raffle to end all raffles as before and everyone is guaranteed superb food, drink and company.

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Past Visits

St Martin of Tours, Detling and Holy Cross, Bearsted (including AGM)

18 Jul 2026 - 14:00

Our next meeting is on Saturday 18th July. We start at 2pm at St Martin of Tours, The Street, Detling, ME14 3JT, a Grade I-listed church mostly of the 13th century. The organ, originally in the Congregational church at King Street, Maidstone, was transferred to De

20 Jun 2026 - 14:00

We start at 2pm at St Mary, Church Road, Lamberhurst, TN3 8DU, a church going back to the tenth century, where there is a thriving musical tradition, then go on to Christ Church, Church Road, Kilndown, TN17 2SE, widely regarded as one of the finest early Victorian churches in the country.

St Peter's Westbere

16 May 2026 - 14:30

We shall start at All Saints’ Church, Church Lane, Westbere, CT2 0HH (just off the A28) at 2.30pm. This has several notable historical features going back to the early 14th century (see the “Westbere Parish Church” website for fuller information), with a modest but attractive F.H.

KCOA Organ Competition 2026 Update

15 Mar 2026 - 15:03

Kent County Organists’ Association

2026 ORGAN COMPETITION

Patron : Margaret Phillips

13.30 hrs, Saturday 14th March 2026