UPNOR is a considerable hamlet on the Medway, at the foot of a wooded height, in the eastern part of this parish, and was formed into on ecclesiastical parish August 30Th 1878; here is a landing pier for steamboats and a castle, built by Queen Elizabeth to protect the Dockyard at Chatham, part of which, with some adjoining buildings, is now used as a military store-house and barracks; the English ships then lying in ordinary off this castle were burnt by de Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, June 12Th 1667.

The church of SS. Philip and James, erected in 1874 and consecrated June 19Th 1878, is a small edifice of brick in the Early English style, and has a western turret containing one bell; there is a tablet in the church to the brothers Pocock, who accompanied Sir H. M. Stanley in his African exploration, and were natives of Upnor; and memorial windows to Captain Savage, Mrs. Savage, and W. B. Little esq.: the church affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1878. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Rochester, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Joseph Greenoak Bailey M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford and LL.D, of Trinity College, Dublin. The population of the ecclesiastical parish of Upnor in 1901 was 746. In this hamlet is a small chapel and institute, a branch of the Vines Congregational church, Rochester.