The tiny church of St Thomas Becket stands isolated on Romney Marsh, the village that it served having long since disappeared. It was originally constructed in the twelfth century of a wooden frame and walls of wattle and daub. Then, in the eighteenth century, the walls were rebuilt in brick, and the interior transformed by a triple-decker pulpit and box pews, all painted in white. John Piper was greatly drawn to this space, which seems to combine the architectural and the organic, and included a watercolour of it in his book on Romney Marsh, which was published as a King Penguin in 1950.
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