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  While I am happy to agree that some Christian influence will have 'arrived' in this country via Dover, at times when the Roman empire was favourable towards it, we should also recall that the spread of the faith in this country is far more likely to have been through the back door so to speak. The Glastonbury legends that attribute the first church to Joseph of Aremethia during the first century are based on factual trading links between Cornwall and the West Country with the Middle East. A religion enjoying very little official favour is far more likely to have travelled with merchants rather than through official channels. As the same trading links also dealt with Ireland it is very possible for a Christian influence to have found root in the Scotti during their spread to the North of this island. The St Patrick legend has him sailing across (on a stone) to spread his faith here. Any later missionaries seeking converts will have sought out existing pockets of believers and it is these people who will almost certainly have come in via Dover or its neighbouring ports.
  
  As to rebuilding another church in Dover, what is your problem with those we have and anyway who do you propose pays for it? If you think it should be local councils please list the services they should cut to cover the expense.

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