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ARTICLES RELATED TO Higham Kent - History | | | |  Higham Kent - History: Encyclopedia II - Higham Kent - HistoryThe priory dedicated to St Mary was built on land granted to Mary, daughter of King Stephen. In 1148, the nuns of St Sulphice-la-Foret, Brittany, moved to Higham. Higham priory was also known as Lillechurch. (Medieval Religious Houses, p. 259). On the 6th of July 1227, King Henry III confirmed the royal grant to the abbey of St Mary and St Sulpice of Lillechurch.
The original parish church is dedicated to St Mary, now in the care of the Redundant Churches. The pulpit there is one of the oldest in Kent, dating from the 14th century.
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