St Saviour's, Walmer

St Saviour's is a church on the seafront of Walmer, Kent, United Kingdom.

"A vast concourse of people assembled, which, together with the large attendance of carriages, and the brilliancy of the summer's sun, made it quite a gay day.

However at 5 o'clock at the Naval Hospital,[nb 1] between four and five hundred of the local poor were fed with roast beef and plum pudding, and entertained by a German brass band.

At this meal for the poor:[3]The Archbishop, with his usual condescension, most kindly consented to be present on this festive occasion, and added not a little to the interest which generally obtained, by saying grace at the different tables, and by addressing some most kind and appropriate observations to the parties assembled, which, we trust, will be long remembered ... On leaving the hospital, the Archbishop was loudly cheered by the assembled guests, who seemed deeply impressed by his kind counsels.

It was built in 1848, in the Neo-Gothic architectural style, as a chapel of ease for the town's boatmen (who, in the days of sail, took supplies out to vessels in the Downs) and to take the pressure off Old St Mary's (previously the parish's only church).