A tiny thatched church in the parish of St. Mary's Gillingham, built by a local family in 1921 as a memorial to those from the estate and hamlet of Langham who died in WW1, who, as inscribed on a bronze wall plaque: ‘Left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men’

In 1890 Alfred Manger retired from banking and entrepreneurial activities in Hong King and London to live at Stock Hill House, Langham. It had long been his intention to build a church on his land, for the spiritual benefit of the employees on his estate, and for the hamlet of Langham. As European events developed , it evolved into a memorial to the sacrifices made by so many during the First World War in which he, like millions of other British families, lost close family members, namely his youngest son, Lt John Kenneth Manger, nephew George Bredon Kitson and son-in-law Capt Herbert Lancaster.

Manger died in 1917 before his plans could be put into effect but his widow, Elizabeth decided that he should be interred at the location where the church was to be erected. She died in 1919. Named after St George, patron saint of soldiers, the church was built in 1921 over their grave by their eldest son,

Lt Col Charles Harwood Manger, who died in 1929. His son, Lt Col William Bourne Manger, last of the name, died in 1954. The finished church was dedicated to St. George on Trinity Sunday, 22^nd May, 1921 by the Bishop of Salisbury and today holds occasional services.