If you love Faversham, join us. We seek to Cherish the Past, Adorn the Present, Create for the Future

Creating the Future

Fine Georgian shopfront repatriated from Chicago and installed in 10-11 Preston Street garden

When we conserve our built heritage and our natural and cultural environment we are shaping the future and determining what will be there for our children.  When we fail then something of our history is lost. We are aware that things can rarely be preserved exactly as they are, conservation is about finding and developing new and appropriate uses for what we have inherited from our forebears and – and this is critical – working to ensure that these things that we have worked to conserve will be valued by those who will inherit them. Only what is valued by the next generation will be conserved, and they will have to should the responsibility of evolving its use to ensure that their children value it too.

We have conserved the Fleur, formally one of our town's many public houses, and the buildings either side of it, much of our building is listed. We have found space to conserve the Georgian shop front, originally from the market place, which travelled to the USA and back and which is now in our garden.

More recently we have contributed to replanting the flower beds where West Street crosses South Road and had repainted the advert on the house wall in Gatefield Lane. We have inset a stone at the bottom of Preston Street to strengthen Faversham’s sense of place.

Our Planning Committee meets monthly to review planning applications and where necessary to speak up for the maintenance and conservation of our heritage. 

Opening Times

VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE
12 Market Place, ME13 7AE
10am to 4pm - Monday to Saturday
10am to 1pm - Sunday (opening hours may vary)

FLEUR MUSEUM - FREE ENTRY
12-13 Preston Street, ME13 8NS
Open Fridays & Saturdays 11:00 to 15:00

SECOND-HAND BOOKSHOP
11 Preston Street, ME13 8NS
10am to 3.30pm - Monday to Saturday

CHART MILLS
Off Stonebridge Way, ME13 7SE

Open Saturday and Sunday from 2-5pm

Registered Charity  Number 1135262 - Company No 07112241
The Faversham Society - Registered Address: 10-13 Preston Street, Faversham, Kent ME13 8NS
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