The Elizabethan dramatist and poet, Christopher Marlowe, was baptized here on February 26, 1564. The church that stood here then was probably pre-Norman in origin with a medieval central aisle. This tower is all that's left of it now. The rest was bombed in the World War II Baedeker Raid of 1942. The gutted church and the top of the tower were removed soon after. A plaque remembering Marlowe was placed here in 1964 to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of his death.
