Badlesmere is in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Ospringe.¹  The church is named for St. Leonard with original parish registers commencing 1557.

Badlesmere is a parish in Faversham district 4-1/2 miles south of Faversham railroad station.  It has a post-office under Faversham.  Acres 778.  Real property £1,000.  Population 133.  Houses 23.  The property is not much divided.  The manor belonged, in the times of Edward I and Edward II, to the potent family of de Badlesmere;  was forfeited by the attainder and execution of John Earl of Oxford and Baron Badlesmere;  and passed into the possession of the family of Sondes, now represented by Lord Sondes.  A house of regular canons were founded in the 13th year of Edward II by Bartholomew de Badlesmere.  The living is a rectory, united to the rectory of Leaveland, in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value £323 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, Lord Sondes.  The church is a small plain Saxon structure in very good condition.  A fair is held on 17 November.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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