I am into my 12th 12 months of the Kent church venture, and I won’t be able to keep in mind how many situations I have been to Fairfield. But its been a even though given that I was previous in this article.
We ended up taking a mate out for his initially journey out onto the Marsh, and so this was our 1st halt.
Storm Dennis was earning by itself regarded, but little rain as yet, so I went to get the important while Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a modest church, and I have photographed it much, so not significantly to do these days, just some aspects and get pleasure from the ambiance.
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The most unforgettable of churches, it stands totally isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to continue to keep it firm. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts fairly from its antiquarian desire, but this interferes really minor with the visible overall look of the interior which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen area! The walls are of bare woodwork and the tiny sq. home windows make it possible for lots of mild to bathe the white painted box pews and matching a few-decker pulpit. The reduced beam which operates in location of a chancel arch adds substantially character to the making. As a total the church in all probability dates from the medieval period of time, but it would be difficult to put a date to it in view of the rebuildings.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Fairfield
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the future parish westward, in the degree of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, considerably diverse from what its title appears to indicate, is a most forlorn and dreary put, and is seemingly the sink of the full Marsh. It is composed of an open up level of marsh-land, unsheltered and with out a hedge or tre through it. It lies pretty minimal, the japanese element particularly, which, for the room of many hundred acres, is overflowed in wintertime, and will become one particular great sheet of h2o, and the rest of the yr is a swamp, included with flags and rushes, which is in wonderful evaluate owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and though the landholders have lately been place to a extremely significant expence, for the drainage of this amount, they have not nevertheless, nor in all likelihood at any time will, reap any sort of edge from it. The church stands on a minimal rise in this section of it, and is so surrounded by individuals swamps, that for the greatest component of the calendar year it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with excellent risk as a result of them up to the saddle girts. The western component, in which is the courtroom-lodge, lies relatively better, and the land is considerably more fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a gentleman of great status for his knowledge and studying, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is stated by his spouse management, though not without having great expence, to have prevailed on all individuals, getting lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, within just the threat of the sea, to add in direction of the keeping of the financial institutions and fences to keep it out, for just before the burthen lay completely on the church, and was turn into an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, created in antient data Feyrsfelde, was, alongside one another with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I find no specific point out of the time when it was offered, aspect of the belongings of the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, throughout which time, in king Henry the VIIth.’s reign, prior Thomas Goldstone erected a new courtlodge, becoming a easy mansion, on it, (fn. 1) in which point out it continued till the dissolution of the priory, in the 31st 12 months of king Henry VIII. (fn. 2) when it arrived into the king’s arms, where by it did not remain very long, for the king settled it by his dotation constitution, in his 33d yr, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, component of whose possessions it nevertheless remains.
The demesne lands of this manor, being of the rack lease of about 1000l. for each annum, have been from time to time demised by the dean and chapter on leases for three life, the appropriate hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford getting the present desire in the lease vested in him.
A court baron is held yearly by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly managed are about 10, casually 7.
THIS PARISH is within just the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is devoted to St. Thomas, (Becket) the martyr, is quite little, and crafted of brick. It is composed of 1 isle and one particular chancel, acquiring a lower pointed wood turret at the west conclusion, in which hangs 1 bell. The church appears to be but of extremely modern-day day. There is only a single memorial in it, at the west conclusion of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It appears by the numerous burials in it, talked about in the wills in the Prerogative-office environment, Canterbury, to have been previously considerably larger, and to have experienced a ring of bells in it.
The church of Fairfield, which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon, has always been an appendage to the manor. It was appropriated by archbishop Edmund, in the 23d year of Henry III. anno 1238, to the almonry of the priory of Christchurch, and on the dissolution of it was granted, with the manor, by king Henry VIII. to the dean and chapter of Canterbury, who are the current possessors of the appropriation, as nicely as the patronage of this church.
¶The church is now esteemed as a perpetual curacy, and is of the annually accredited worth of fifty pounds, which sum is, by covenant in the lease from the dean and chapter of the demesne lands of the manor, paid out by the lessee, who has similarly by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 listed here had been 30-8 communicants.
www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp379-381
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