Fawkham is a village in NE Kent, about 8 miles from Gravesend and 12 miles from Sevenoaks. The church of St Mary consists of a Norman nave and a chancel with Decorated windows, and the vestry to the N and S porch added in the 19thc. The nave features a 16th-c octagonal weatherboarded bell turret surmounted by a shingled spire. The interior has bellcote supports of four posts braced at the top with pierced spandrels within the braces and a 13th-c wall painting of Christ in Majesty in the nave. Some medieval stained glass fragments are found in the S window of the chancel. The only surviving Romanesque sculptural element is a tub font.

Domesday Book mentiones 'Fachesham' as part of the lands of the Bishop of Rochester; the presence of a church is also recorded.