St Mary's Church

St. Mary's Church lies close to the banks of the Orwell in the tiny halet which was once the original village of Shotley, quite some way from either Shotley Gate or the comparatively new area which is now regarded as Shotley proper. Altered and added to over the centuries (the chancel was rebuilt in 1745) it is an imposing edifice, and the graveyard-filled with memorials to those lost at sea in one war or another, many of them terribly young-is both beautiful and sad. Notably, it includes memorials to a large number of German sailors who met their fate near Shotley Point.