Hinxhill is a tiny village in the shadow of Wye down. I say a village, its a pair of houses and the Hinxhill Estate, which you can’t see from the street.
St Mary has been a church I have preferred to see inside of for numerous years, and I have hardly ever uncovered it open. But for this Heritage weekend, I had significant hopes.
And I wasn’t disappointed.
St Mary has a very wonderful 17th century memorial on the wall, two great figures on it, and as perfectly as some awesome Victorian glass, the gentle coming in at just gone 4 in the afternoon manufactured pictures best.
A person of these visits you remember for the lights, so a church nicely truly worth ready for to check out.
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Remote and tranquil Hinxhill is the archetypal state church. Just about all courting from the 13th century, the slender north aisle is a typical give way – built to be utilized as a processional area without having benches. The wonderful lancet windows, with trefoil headed tops are little and lower whilst the north chapel has one with a rere-arch, a sign of prosperity in the latter 13th century. The odd chancel display screen is dated to the 17th century and the woodwork of the pulpit is almost certainly of that date too. The stained glass is Victorian and typically by the Scottish organization of Ballantyne – a catalogue of shifting manner. The south chancel window of Christ weeping is specifically superior. The good Royal Arms is just one of quite a few in Kent by Marten of Tenterden and nicely worthy of a look. To the north of the chancel is a seventeenth century tomb with superior effigies and skulls beneath – which legend says was walled up with plaster for two hundred many years just before being re exhibited by the Victorians. In the vestry is a delightful piece of continental glass of probable seventeenth century day.
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HINXHILL,
Commonly referred to as Hinexsell, and in quite antient periods prepared Hengestelle, is the next parish eastward from Kennington. The manor of Bilsington statements about a great portion of this parish.
HINXHILL is an obscure parish, but minimal known, and having pretty small site visitors via it. The village is made up of only four or 5 houses, one of which, is the principal farm-home of Sir John Honywood’s estate here, and one more the parsonage. It stands on high floor, with the church on the west aspect of it. The antient mansion stood shut to the south-west corner of the church-lawn, having a wonderful prospect more than the adjoining country. The kitchen area is all that continues to be of it now, currently being made use of as an oast and stowages for hops. Not significantly from the church, northward, are Excellent and Minimal Plumpton, the previous was for some time the home of the Andrew’s, the latter of the Whitwick’s. Beneath the hill from the village to the north and west, it is a deep and most unpleasant region, the soil a stiff clay, with considerably boggy floor, primarily westward, exactly where it is joined by the river Stour. About the village it it tolerable fertile land, but southward there is substantially sand, combined with the quarry or rag stone.
A honest is held listed here yearly on the Saturday in Whitsun-7 days, for toys and pedlary.
In the 12 months 1727, a species of subterraneous fire was taken notice of in the valley involving Goodcheape in this parish and Wye. This hearth began in a marshy discipline, on the facet of a very little brook, close to the water, and continued to burn up alongside its lender with no spreading much for some times afterwards it appeared on the other facet, and extended itself for the space of some acres around the subject, consuming all the earth exactly where it burnt into purple ashes, rather down to the springs, which in most spots lay 4 toes and additional deep. In the space of about 6 weeks it experienced eaten about 3 acres of floor, at which time it burnt in lots of destinations, and despatched forth a wonderful smoak and a strong scent extremely like that of a brick-kiln but it never flamed, other than when the earth was turned and stirred up. For some place where by it was burnt the floor felt incredibly hot, while the grass seemed no far more parched than could possibly be fairly expected from the dryness and heat of the season. In a number of locations where the earth was turned up, it was found to be warm and wet close to 4 ft deep, and considerably hotter about two feet deep than nearer the surface and when this earth was exposed to the air, although it was quite moist, and not hotter than may possibly be quickly borne by the hand, nevertheless the heat of it improved so fast, that in a several minutes it was all more than on hearth, like phosphorus designed with allum and flour. The soil of the industry is of the similar character with that the turs is produced of in Holland. The area of it is always wet, other than in severe dry seasons but this period it was rather a lot more parched and more durable than standard. It was tough to have any of this absent, on account of its firing 1 piece in specific firing in the pocket of 1 who was bringing it absent, had virtually burnt its way as a result of ahead of it was perceived. (fn. 1)
In the stone-quarry by Swatfield-bridge, at the southern boundary of this parish, as effectively as in many of the rag-stones about the adjoining parishes of Sevington and Willesborough, is identified the ostracites stone, pretty huge and on a rag-stone at Lacton, in the latter parish, the flat shell of just one calculated eight inches diameter and the late Mr. Thorpe, of Bexley, experienced two in his possession, really massive and good, with the convex components entirely loaded up with solid stone, which have been provided to his father, Dr. Thorpe, by the earl of Winchelsea.
A person ÆTHELFERH, a servant of the abbot of St. Augustine’s monastery, about the year 864, by will gave the land of Hengesteselle, which was a parish, as Thorne claims in his Chronicle, contiguous to that of Willesborough northward, to that monastery but Hugo de Montfort, in the time of the Conqueror, bought possession of it, in spite of all the endeavours of the monks to oppose it: and accordingly this estate looks to have been as a result entered in the study of Domesday as follows, among his possessions:
In Langebrige hundred, Gislebert retains of Hugo 1 yoke, which a specified Sochman held of king Edward. It is and was truly worth 4 shillings. There was nothing at all there nor is.
Of Etwelle, which Herbert the son of Ivo, retains with no the division of Hugo, he himself retains fourteen acres of land inside his division, and it is value two shillings.
And continue to additional in the very same history, beneath the like title, is the following entry, which evidently relates to his possessions, component of, or at the very least adjoining to those people right before-outlined:
In Langebrige hundred. In the identical hundred, is 1 rood of land in Suestone, which just one Sochman held of king Edward. There is now 1 borderer having to pay twelve pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was value thirty pence, and afterwards eighteen, now a few shillings.
Robert de Montfort, grandson of Hugo previously mentioned-stated, having afterwards incurred the displeasure of king Henry II. all his estates, and these among them, them, arrived into the king’s fingers, following which it seems that THE MANOR OF HINXHILL, with that of SWATFORD, alias SWATFIELD, was afterwards held by the family members of Strabolgie, earls of Athol but Alexander Baliol, lord of Chilham, grew to become possessed of them at the latter finish of king Henry III.’s reign, in right of Isabel his wife, widow of David de Strabolgie, earl of Athol, and held them, by the courtesy of England, through her lifetime, she getting been, on the death of her brother Richard de Dover, s.p. become entitled to them for her daily life, the inheritance of them belonging to John, earl of Athol, her son by her former spouse, as heir to her brother before-outlined. At duration they descended down to David, earl of Athol, who died in the 49th year of king Edward III. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth, the eldest, married to Sir Thomas Percy, a younger son of Henry, lord Percy, and Philippa to John Halsham, of Halsham, in Sussex the latter of whom, by her father’s will, grew to become entitled to these manors. At duration her grandson Sir Hugh Halsham, in the beginning of king Henry VI.’s reign, handed them away, in the 3d 12 months of that reign, to Sir Robert Scott, lieutenant of the tower of London, brother of Sir William Scott, of Braborne, and later on of Scotts-corridor, whose only daughter and heir Alice, marrying William Kempe, nephew to cardinal archbishop Kempe, he, in her appropriate, grew to become entitled to them but his grandson Sir William Kempe, about the latter close of king Henry VIII.’s reign, alienated them to Browning from which household, about the reign of queen Elizabeth, they have been alienated to Robt. Edolph, esq. son of Robert Edolph, of Brenset, and brother of Simon Edolph, of St. Radigunds, who bore for his arms, Ermine, on a bend, sable, 3 cinquesoils, argent, (fn. 2) who later on resided at Hinshill court docket, as did his son Sir Robert Edolph, who saved his shrievalty right here in the 6th yr of king James I. but his son Robert Edolph, esq. dying s.p. in 1631, gave these manors of Hinxhill and Swatford, alongside one another with the court docket leet of the 50 % hundred of Longbridge, by will to Cecilia his spouse, for her lifetime, or so prolonged as she ongoing unmarried but she afterwards remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, of Looking at, forfeited her curiosity in them, on which they came to Mr. Samuel Edolph, her former husband’s following brother, who some several years afterwards conveyed them to his brother in-regulation Mr. John Angel, of Surry, for the far more effectual overall performance of his will and he, someday just after the loss of life of king Charles I. passed them away to Edward Choute, esq. of Bethersden, who later on resided at Hinxhill-court, as did his son Sir George Choute also, who was succeeded in them by his son George Choute, esq. who was made a baronet in 1684. He pulled down this mansion, and eliminated to Bethersden, in which he died s.p. in 1721, (fn. 3) having devised these manors by will to Edward Austen, esq. of Tenterden, later on baronet, who marketed them not prolonged later on to Sir William Honywood, bart. of Evington, who died possessed of them in 1748, and his immediate descendant Sir John Honywood, bart. of Evington, is the existing possessor of these manors.
The courts baron for the manors of Hinxhill and Swatford, have been for some time disused and the court leet for the fifty percent hundred of Longbridge has been for quite a few decades past held by the constable of it, only for the appointment of a successor in his business, as will be further taken recognize of hereafter.
WALTHAM is a spot listed here, which was when accounted a manor, and antiently belonged to the relatives of Criol, from whom it went by relationship into that of Rokesle, and thence again in like method to the household of Poynings, in which it ongoing until Sir Edward Poynings, governor of Dover castle, and lord warden, dying possessed of it anno 14 Henry VIII. 1522, not only with out legit issue, but even with no any collateral kindred, who could make declare to his estates, this manor, amid other people, escheated to the crown, whence it was quickly later on granted to Sir Richard Damsell, who not very long just after passed it away to Goldhill as he did about the latter conclusion of queen Elizabeth’s reign, to Mr. Robert Edolph, of Hinxhillcourt because which it has handed in like way as the manor of Hinxhill before-explained, down to Sir John Honywood, bart. who is the current possessor of it.
GOODCHEAPES, as it is now identified as, but a lot more thoroughly Godchepes, is an estate in the northern aspect of this parish, which for a sequence of lots of generations had entrepreneurs of that surname, one particular of whom, Thomas Godchepe, as seems by the inquisition taken following his dying, died possessed of it in the 31st 12 months of king Edward I. and in his title and descendants it remained set until eventually the latter stop of king Henry VIII.’s reign, and then it came by the will of one particular of them, named also Thomas Godchepe, right after the limitation of it, to numerous unique individuals, who were being turn into extinct with out issue, to the final person talked about in remainder in the will, Mr. John Barrow. The situation of which bequest is as a result linked: Mr. John Barrow, staying an legal professional, was called upon to make the will of Thomas Godchepe, and by his course inserted the names of eight individuals, who were being to triumph each other in the inheritance of this estate in tail, and remaining requested by Barrow, whom he must insert far more, he was answered by the testator, that as there experienced been a reciprocal friendship amongst them, he really should position his individual name up coming immediately after them all and they all deceasing in training course of time s.p. this estate in the conclude devolved to him and his heirs. Circumstances very similar to the higher than have occurred in relation to other estates in this county, significantly to the Leeds abbey estate, by Sir Roger Meredith’s will, who died in 1742, s.p. who obtaining sent for Mr. Walter Hooper, an attorney, to make his will, after having devised his estates to a number of unique persons successively in tail, appeared at a reduction who to identify next in the entail, when Mr. Hooper outlined himself and his nephew and all the prior remainders possessing ceased, they both equally successively liked that estate by the will. (fn. 4) Mr. Barrow, who bore for his arms, Lozengy, or, and azure, a grissin, salient, ermine, resided afterwards listed here, and died in 1578, leaving two daughters his coheirs, whose eldest daughter and coheir Elizabeth, marrying Mr. Robert Edolph, the purchaser of Hinxhill-courtroom as in advance of-described, he grew to become entitled to it someday about the latter stop of queen Elizabeth’s reign because which it has passed in like succession of ownership as the manors of Hinxhill and Waltham just before-mentioned, down to Sir John Honywood, bart. who is the existing possessor of them.
Charities.
MARTHA WADE, by will in 1722, gave an annuity of forty shillings, out of lands in this parish and Wye, to the use of the poor not acquiring alms, vested in the churchwardens and overseers.
The poor frequently relieved are about twelve, casually eight.
THIS PARISH is inside of the ECCLESIASTICAL JURIADICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is focused to St. Mary, is a tiny developing, consisting of two isles and two chancels, having a small spire steeple at the west end, in which are three bells. In the significant chancel, on the north facet, there is a handsome monument, properly preserved, for Robert Edolph, esq. and Cicely Browne his wife, having their effigies kneeling on it. He died in 1631. In the south isle are memorials for Coveney, arms, On a bend, three trefoils slipt. The north isle is incredibly narrow certainly in it is a memorial for Kennet Backe, gent. captain of the educate-bands, obt. 1687. On the south facet, in the church-property, are numerous memorials for the Wightwicks, and a extremely antient stone, coffinshaped, with a cross tale on it. It appears by the parish sign up, that several of the Edolphs are buried in this church, from the 12 months 1588, when Mr. Robt. Edolph, sen. gent. was buried in it, to the present century. Mr. John Barrow in 1578, Sir Edward Chute in 1634, and other folks of some observe in everyday living, show up similarly to have been buried in it, for whom there are not any memorials.
¶The church of Hinxhill was antiently appendant to the manor, and ongoing with it till Robert Edolph, esq. by will in 1631, gave the manor of Hinxhill to his spouse Cecilie, for her life, or right until she remarried, and the advowson and patronage of this church to her and her heirs for ever. By which usually means the advowson remaining separated from the manor, turned an advowson in gross, and though it later on was possessed by the very same house owners as the manor, nonetheless obtaining been once separated it could never later on be appendant to it once again. (fn. 5) She soon afterwards remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, forfeited her lifestyle-estate in the manor to her late husband’s next heir and brother, Mr. Sam. Edolph, and some several years afterwards alienated the reversion of the advowson, (for she appears to have introduced to the Rectory in 1666) to him. Given that which it has ongoing, in like succession of possession with the manor of Hinxhill, and his other estates in this parish, to Angel, Choute, and Austen, and from the latter to Sir William Honywood, bart. whose descendant Sir John Honywood, bart. is the existing owner and patron of this church.
This rectory is valued in the king’s textbooks at 7l. 16s. 8d. It is now a discharged living, of the very clear annually certified worth of thirty-four lbs. In 1578 right here were being communicants seventy-one. In 1640 it was valued at sixty kilos, communicants seventy. There are 10 acres of glebe.
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