Current Boundaries

Current Boundaries – Map and Description

There are no fixed borders and everyone is very welcome to worship where they feel comfortable.

However, as a guide, the Parish serves the following settlements:

  • Tenterden
  • Rolvenden
  • Newenden
  • Appledore
  • Small Hythe
  • St Michael’s
  • Wittersham
  • Woodchurch
  • Biddenden
  • Bethersden (part)
  • High Halden
  • Stone in Oxney

Parish boundaries:

  • Southern border is the River Rother and the Kent and East Sussex county boundary. The nearest church after that is Saint Teresa’s in Horn Cross.
  • Western border meets the boundary of the Parish of Saint Theodore’s in Cranbrook, which has a chapel in Benenden and also serves Staplehurst.
  • Northwestern border meets the boundary of the Parish of Saint Thomas’ of Headcorn, served from Holy Family, Parkwood, Maidstone.
  • North eastern border meets the boundary of the Parish of Saint Simon Stock in South Ashford in the village of Bethersden.
  • Eastern border meets the boundary of the parish of The Virgin Mother of Good Counsel, based in Hythe, which serves the villages of the Romney Marsh.

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There will be an Adoration of Jesus on Fridays between 10.30 – 11.30am.

Confessions will be heard on Saturdays between 10.30 and 11.00 am. Fr Behr is also ready to visit those who are unable to come to church.

Services for the coming week: 29 Jan-6 Feb.

Mass will be celebrated on weekdays at 10.00 am. On Wed there will be a service of  the Word and Communion at 10.00 am.

Afer Mass at 10.00am on Fri, there will be an Adoration of  Jesus at 10.30 am.

Vigil Mass will be held on Sat 29 Jan and 5 Feb at 6.00pm. There will be Mass on Sun 30 Jan and 6 Feb at 10.00 am followed by a Traditional Latin Mass at 12.00 noon. 

Contact Us

St Andrew’s Catholic Church
The Presbytery
47 Ashford Road
Tenterden
Kent TN30 6LL
Call 01580 762785, 07903 986646 or
behruzrafat@rcaos.org.uk.
To call Fr Behr out of hours ring ‬07903 986646.
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