There has been a church on this site since Saxon times. The present Nave was built in the 11th Century and the Chancel around 1200. The Crypt, which was created by digging out the Chancel foundations, houses a neatly stacked collection of 2,000 skulls and 8,000 thigh bones. It is likely that most of these were displaced when the foundations for the Chancel were originally excavated. In 1940, a bomb seriously damaged the east end of the church, destroying the orginal stained glass window. The replacement window commemorates Hythe's 'front line' role with pic-tures of a Cinque Ports Ship, probing searchlights and anti-aircraft guns in action.
