Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre

Formed in 1962, the Society is a Registered Charitable Company Limited with the aid of Guarantee operating to maintain the heritage and fabric of the historic town of Faversham and its surrounding parishes. Created in response to modernization and the loss of ancient buildings in Faversham, the Society pursuits to ensure that Faversham’s man or woman experience of vicinity and exquisite background functions are not misplaced. Over 50 years of increase and development have formed the Society into a complex commercial enterprise with many one-of-a-kind aspects, maximum of which interact at once with the majority as well as with expert researchers and enquirers.

With over a thousand individuals and run completely with the aid of volunteers, the Society is one of the oldest civic societies within the UK and lots of its early paintings has considering that been replicated by using different civic corporations, in particular our Open House event. The constant series and maintenance of physical proof from Faversham’s rich, ancient beyond – archaeological discoveries reflecting many centuries of human hobby, recent artefacts from everyday existence, relics of Faversham’s ious business and maritime beyond, and assisting documentary documents – endow the Society with a valuable role inside the research and presentation of Faversham’s records to the widest audiences.