Share the beauty of the Marsh churches this Christmas
The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust’s 2026 Christmas cards celebrate two remarkable churches and the treasures within them. By buying a pack, you can share something of the Marsh’s beauty with friends and family while helping the Trust support the care and preservation of these much-loved buildings.
Each design costs £8 for a pack of ten, plus postage, with the greeting “With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year” inside.
Order your Christmas cards here and help preserve the churches and their extraordinary stories for future generations.
About this year’s designs
Newchurch Snow Scene
The Newchurch card (above left) features a snowy view of St. Peter & St Paul’s, from a painting by John Doyle MBE, PPRWS. Consecrated in 1238 and enlarged in the following century, the church is known for its distinctive leaning tower, which began to tilt as it rose from the soft Marsh ground.
On the reverse is David Campbell’s photograph of the church’s late fifteenth-century font. Alongside the emblems of St Peter and St Paul are the roses of York, Lancaster and the Tudor dynasty. These carvings suggest a date during Henry VII’s reign, and the font may have been a thanksgiving for peace following the Wars of the Roses.
Newchurch card reverse
The font inside the church
East Guldeford Angels
East Guldeford card reverse
The second design (above right) is a detail from the famous angel mural at St. Mary’s, East Guldeford. Built at the expense of Sir Richard Guldeford on land reclaimed from the sea, this unusual brick church was consecrated in 1505. Its angel mural, painted in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, depicts the Six Days of Creation.
The card features a musical angel and an angel representing the creation of land and sea, with another swinging a censer on the reverse.
Each design costs £8 for a pack of ten, plus postage, with the greeting “With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year” inside.
Order your Christmas cards here and help preserve the churches and their extraordinary stories for future generations.
The angel mural inside St. Mary’s, East Guldeford