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This building adjoins the pharos, it is ascribed by some authorities to the time of St. Augustine's Mission, it seems certainly to date in its oldest portions from the middle of the 7th century, it has interspersions of Roman bricks and tiles in its walls. And was finely restored in 1862, under the direction of Sir Gilbert Scott. It is now used as a Garrison Church and visitors are admitted to the services.

|The fortifications which have been erected to the west of the castle and higher than the keep. Four guardhouses were constructed there ram­parts and lines of defence were raised to protect them and positions were made for seventy-two pieces of cannon. Handsome barracks were situated above the town and had communication with it by means of a military shaft. An arched passage lead to this from Snargate Street and three spiral flights of stairs with 140 steps to each, wind round a large shaft or tower, open at the top to admit light. Above the barracks on the hill, was the grand redoubt surrounded by a deep fosse, and to the south-west of this was the citadel defended by deep ditches and numerous masked batteries. Lines of communication, either subterranean or on the surface connect all parts of the fortifications, and a military road passes over the hill from Archcliffe Fort to the entrance of the town from Folkestone. Deep wells, and curiously-contrived tanks gave an ample supply of excellent water, and a handsome military hospital stood on a lofty site overlooking the sea.

Additional barracks for 1200 men were erected at a cost of £60,000 in 1855-6, and a school for the benefit of soldiers children at the garrison was opened in 1858. The southern fortifications extend as far as the celebrated "Shakespeare's Cliff,"