I am into my 12th 12 months of the Kent church undertaking, and I cannot recall how many occasions I have been to Fairfield. But its been a when given that I was final here.
We ended up getting a buddy out for his initial vacation out onto the Marsh, and so this was our to start with quit.
Storm Dennis was earning by itself recognized, but minor rain as still, so I went to get the critical when Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a compact church, and I have photographed it much, so not significantly to do today, just some information and get pleasure from the environment.
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The most memorable of church buildings, it stands fully isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to maintain it corporation. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts fairly from its antiquarian desire, but this interferes really small with the visual physical appearance of the inside which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen! The partitions are of bare woodwork and the very little square windows allow for a good deal of light to bathe the white painted box pews and matching a few-decker pulpit. The very low beam which runs in place of a chancel arch provides a lot character to the creating. As a entire the church most likely dates from the medieval interval, but it would be unattainable to put a day to it in watch of the rebuildings.
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the future parish westward, in the level of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, significantly distinct from what its title would seem to imply, is a most forlorn and dreary put, and is seemingly the sink of the total Marsh. It is composed of an open up degree of marsh-land, unsheltered and devoid of a hedge or tre all through it. It lies extremely minimal, the eastern part specifically, which, for the house of various hundred acres, is overflowed in wintertime, and gets 1 fantastic sheet of water, and the rest of the calendar year is a swamp, coated with flags and rushes, which is in terrific measure owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and even though the landholders have lately been put to a really significant expence, for the drainage of this degree, they have not still, nor in all likelihood ever will, enjoy any kind of gain from it. The church stands on a very little rise in this component of it, and is so surrounded by individuals swamps, that for the biggest aspect of the year it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with terrific threat by them up to the saddle girts. The western element, in which is the court docket-lodge, lies alternatively increased, and the land is significantly extra fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a man of excellent popularity for his wisdom and finding out, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is reported by his wife management, while not with no excellent expence, to have prevailed on all people, possessing lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, in the risk of the sea, to contribute in the direction of the keeping of the banking companies and fences to preserve it out, for just before the burthen lay completely on the church, and was become an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, composed in antient documents Feyrsfelde, was, alongside one another with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I uncover no distinct mention of the time when it was offered, part of the possessions of the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, in the course of 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 state it continued until the dissolution of the priory, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. (fn. 2) when it came into the king’s fingers, wherever it did not continue being extended, for the king settled it by his dotation constitution, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, element of whose belongings it still stays.
The demesne lands of this manor, being of the rack hire of about 1000l. per annum, have been from time to time demised by the dean and chapter on leases for a few life, the appropriate hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford possessing the existing desire in the lease vested in him.
A court baron is held annually by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The weak regularly managed are about 10, casually 7.
THIS PARISH is inside of the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is focused to St. Thomas, (Becket) the martyr, is really smaller, and crafted of brick. It consists of a single isle and a single chancel, having a very low pointed wooden turret at the west conclusion, in which hangs one particular bell. The church appears to be to be but of really fashionable day. There is only a single memorial in it, at the west stop of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It seems by the various burials in it, stated in the wills in the Prerogative-business, Canterbury, to have been previously significantly larger, and to have had a ring of bells in it.
The church of Fairfield, which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon, has often been an appendage to the manor. It was appropriated by archbishop Edmund, in the 23d calendar 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 existing possessors of the appropriation, as well as the patronage of this church.
¶The church is now esteemed as a perpetual curacy, and is of the annually accredited price of fifty lbs, which sum is, by covenant in the lease from the dean and chapter of the demesne lands of the manor, paid by the lessee, who has likewise by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 here were 30-eight communicants.
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