Hinxhill is a smaller village in the shadow of Wye down. I say a village, its a pair of homes and the Hinxhill Estate, which you can not see from the street.
St Mary has been a church I have wanted to see inside of for numerous years, and I have in no way observed it open up. But for this Heritage weekend, I had large hopes.
And I wasn’t let down.
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Distant and tranquil Hinxhill is the archetypal region church. Almost all relationship from the 13th century, the slender north aisle is a normal give way – intended to be utilised as a processional place without the need of benches. The attractive lancet windows, with trefoil headed tops are small and reduced whilst the north chapel has a person with a rere-arch, a indication of wealth in the latter 13th century. The odd chancel display screen is dated to the 17th century and the woodwork of the pulpit is probably of that date much too. The stained glass is Victorian and mainly by the Scottish company of Ballantyne – a catalogue of modifying style. The south chancel window of Christ weeping is notably fantastic. The great Royal Arms is just one of a number of in Kent by Marten of Tenterden and perfectly worthy of a glimpse. To the north of the chancel is a seventeenth century tomb with great effigies and skulls beneath – which legend claims was walled up with plaster for two hundred several years just before becoming re shown by the Victorians. In the vestry is a pleasant piece of continental glass of probable seventeenth century date.
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HINXHILL,
Normally termed Hinexsell, and in really antient situations composed Hengestelle, is the up coming parish eastward from Kennington. The manor of Bilsington promises in excess of a great aspect of this parish.
HINXHILL is an obscure parish, but tiny acknowledged, and obtaining very minimal targeted visitors as a result of it. The village is made up of only 4 or 5 residences, a single of which, is the principal farm-household of Sir John Honywood’s estate listed here, and a further the parsonage. It stands on higher floor, with the church on the west aspect of it. The antient mansion stood near to the south-west corner of the church-property, owning a fine prospect in excess of the adjoining nation. The kitchen area is all that remains of it now, getting made use of as an oast and stowages for hops. Not far from the church, northward, are Great and Minor Plumpton, the former was for some time the residence of the Andrew’s, the latter of the Whitwick’s. Down below the hill from the village to the north and west, it is a deep and most unpleasant state, the soil a stiff clay, with substantially boggy floor, in particular westward, in which it is joined by the river Stour. About the village it it tolerable fertile land, but southward there is significantly sand, combined with the quarry or rag stone.
A reasonable is held right here annually on the Saturday in Whitsun-week, for toys and pedlary.
In the year 1727, a species of subterraneous fire was taken observe of in the valley in between Goodcheape in this parish and Wye. This fire commenced in a marshy field, on the side of a minimal brook, close to the h2o, and continued to burn together its financial institution without the need of spreading significantly for some times later on it appeared on the other side, and prolonged alone for the space of some acres over the area, consuming all the earth exactly where it burnt into pink ashes, fairly down to the springs, which in most places lay 4 ft and far more deep. In the place of about six months it had consumed about three acres of ground, at which time it burnt in quite a few spots, and despatched forth a great smoak and a sturdy odor extremely like that of a brick-kiln but it under no circumstances flamed, besides when the earth was turned and stirred up. For some house exactly where it was burnt the ground felt very hot, although the grass appeared no much more parched than could possibly be fairly expected from the dryness and heat of the season. In quite a few areas wherever the earth was turned up, it was observed to be incredibly hot and wet in the vicinity of four toes deep, and much hotter about two feet deep than nearer the surface area and when this earth was uncovered to the air, even though it was incredibly moist, and not hotter than may be quickly borne by the hand, but the heat of it increased so quickly, that in a couple of minutes it was all above on fire, like phosphorus made with allum and flour. The soil of the industry is of the exact same nature with that the turs is manufactured of in Holland. The area of it is often soaked, apart from in serious dry seasons but this year it was relatively extra parched and more challenging than standard. It was hard to have any of this absent, on account of its firing 1 piece in unique firing in the pocket of one who was bringing it absent, had pretty much burnt its way via just before it was perceived. (fn. 1)
In the stone-quarry by Swatfield-bridge, at the southern boundary of this parish, as perfectly as in many of the rag-stones about the adjoining parishes of Sevington and Willesborough, is uncovered the ostracites stone, very massive and on a rag-stone at Lacton, in the latter parish, the flat shell of one particular calculated eight inches diameter and the late Mr. Thorpe, of Bexley, had two in his possession, incredibly huge and truthful, with the convex components solely stuffed up with sound stone, which were provided to his father, Dr. Thorpe, by the earl of Winchelsea.
A single ÆTHELFERH, a servant of the abbot of St. Augustine’s monastery, about the yr 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, acquired possession of it, in spite of all the endeavours of the monks to oppose it: and appropriately this estate looks to have been consequently entered in the study of Domesday as follows, between his belongings:
In Langebrige hundred, Gislebert holds of Hugo just one yoke, which a specific 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 without having the division of Hugo, he himself holds fourteen acres of land in just his division, and it is value two shillings.
And however further in the identical record, below the like title, is the adhering to entry, which evidently relates to his belongings, aspect of, or at least adjoining to all those right before-described:
In Langebrige hundred. In the exact hundred, is one rood of land in Suestone, which a single Sochman held of king Edward. There is now a person borderer paying out twelve pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was value 30 pence, and later on eighteen, now three shillings.
Robert de Montfort, grandson of Hugo earlier mentioned-pointed out, having afterwards incurred the displeasure of king Henry II. all his estates, and these between them, them, came into the king’s fingers, right after which it appears that THE MANOR OF HINXHILL, with that of SWATFORD, alias SWATFIELD, was later on held by the loved ones of Strabolgie, earls of Athol but Alexander Baliol, lord of Chilham, turned possessed of them at the latter conclusion of king Henry III.’s reign, in suitable of Isabel his wife, widow of David de Strabolgie, earl of Athol, and held them, by the courtesy of England, in the course of her existence, she having been, on the loss of life of her brother Richard de Dover, s.p. turn out to be entitled to them for her lifetime, the inheritance of them belonging to John, earl of Athol, her son by her previous husband, as heir to her brother in advance of-mentioned. At size they descended down to David, earl of Athol, who died in the 49th 12 months 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, became 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 year of that reign, to Sir Robert Scott, lieutenant of the tower of London, brother of Sir William Scott, of Braborne, and afterwards of Scotts-hall, whose only daughter and heir Alice, marrying William Kempe, nephew to cardinal archbishop Kempe, he, in her right, became entitled to them but his grandson Sir William Kempe, about the latter conclude of king Henry VIII.’s reign, alienated them to Browning from which spouse and children, about the reign of queen Elizabeth, they had 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, a few cinquesoils, argent, (fn. 2) who later on resided at Hinshill court, as did his son Sir Robert Edolph, who saved his shrievalty listed here in the 6th 12 months 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 leet of the half hundred of Longbridge, by will to Cecilia his wife, for her lifestyle, or so long as she continued single but she later on remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, of Reading through, forfeited her interest in them, upon which they arrived to Mr. Samuel Edolph, her former husband’s next brother, who some decades afterwards conveyed them to his brother in-legislation Mr. John Angel, of Surry, for the far more effectual functionality of his will and he, sometime just after the death of king Charles I. handed them absent to Edward Choute, esq. of Bethersden, who later on resided at Hinxhill-court docket, as did his son Sir George Choute similarly, who was succeeded in them by his son George Choute, esq. who was designed a baronet in 1684. He pulled down this mansion, and removed to Bethersden, wherever he died s.p. in 1721, (fn. 3) getting devised these manors by will to Edward Austen, esq. of Tenterden, afterwards baronet, who bought them not lengthy later on to Sir William Honywood, bart. of Evington, who died possessed of them in 1748, and his direct 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 docket leet for the 50 % hundred of Longbridge has been for various decades past held by the constable of it, solely for the appointment of a successor in his business, as will be further more taken see of hereafter.
WALTHAM is a spot right here, which was once accounted a manor, and antiently belonged to the family of Criol, from whom it went by relationship into that of Rokesle, and thence again in like method to the loved ones of Poynings, in which it ongoing till Sir Edward Poynings, governor of Dover castle, and lord warden, dying possessed of it anno 14 Henry VIII. 1522, not only with no genuine challenge, but even without the need of any collateral kindred, who could make claim to his estates, this manor, among the other folks, escheated to the crown, whence it was promptly later on granted to Sir Richard Damsell, who not prolonged after handed it away to Goldhill as he did about the latter finish of queen Elizabeth’s reign, to Mr. Robert Edolph, of Hinxhillcourt because which it has passed in like method as the manor of Hinxhill just before-described, down to Sir John Honywood, bart. who is the existing possessor of it.
GOODCHEAPES, as it is now referred to as, but extra effectively Godchepes, is an estate in the northern portion of this parish, which for a sequence of a lot of generations experienced house owners of that surname, one of whom, Thomas Godchepe, as seems by the inquisition taken immediately after his loss of life, died possessed of it in the 31st 12 months of king Edward I. and in his identify and descendants it remained fixed right until the latter close of king Henry VIII.’s reign, and then it arrived by the will of one of them, named also Thomas Godchepe, just after the limitation of it, to many diverse individuals, who were being become extinct without the need of problem, to the final individual pointed out in remainder in the will, Mr. John Barrow. The instances of which bequest is hence similar: Mr. John Barrow, remaining an lawyer, was called on to make the will of Thomas Godchepe, and by his direction inserted the names of eight individuals, who ended up to do well just about every other in the inheritance of this estate in tail, and becoming asked by Barrow, whom he must insert much more, he was answered by the testator, that as there had been a reciprocal friendship amongst them, he need to place his possess identify upcoming right after them all and they all deceasing in program of time s.p. this estate in the end devolved to him and his heirs. Conditions very similar to the above have transpired in relation to other estates in this county, notably to the Leeds abbey estate, by Sir Roger Meredith’s will, who died in 1742, s.p. who owning sent for Mr. Walter Hooper, an attorney, to make his will, following possessing devised his estates to quite a few various individuals successively in tail, appeared at a decline who to title future in the entail, when Mr. Hooper described himself and his nephew and all the prior remainders acquiring ceased, they both successively savored that estate by the will. (fn. 4) Mr. Barrow, who bore for his arms, Lozengy, or, and azure, a grissin, salient, ermine, resided afterwards below, and died in 1578, leaving two daughters his coheirs, whose eldest daughter and coheir Elizabeth, marrying Mr. Robert Edolph, the purchaser of Hinxhill-court as ahead of-pointed out, he turned entitled to it someday about the latter conclusion of queen Elizabeth’s reign considering that which it has handed in like succession of ownership as the manors of Hinxhill and Waltham in advance of-described, 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 bad not getting alms, vested in the churchwardens and overseers.
The bad constantly relieved are about twelve, casually 8.
THIS PARISH is in just the ECCLESIASTICAL JURIADICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is focused to St. Mary, is a modest constructing, consisting of two isles and two chancels, possessing a minimal spire steeple at the west conclusion, in which are 3 bells. In the superior chancel, on the north side, there is a handsome monument, properly preserved, for Robert Edolph, esq. and Cicely Browne his wife, possessing their effigies kneeling on it. He died in 1631. In the south isle are memorials for Coveney, arms, On a bend, 3 trefoils slipt. The north isle is extremely slim in fact in it is a memorial for Kennet Backe, gent. captain of the coach-bands, obt. 1687. On the south side, in the church-lawn, are several memorials for the Wightwicks, and a extremely antient stone, coffinshaped, with a cross story on it. It seems by the parish sign up, that quite a few of the Edolphs are buried in this church, from the year 1588, when Mr. Robt. Edolph, sen. gent. was buried in it, to the current century. Mr. John Barrow in 1578, Sir Edward Chute in 1634, and other folks of some be aware in lifetime, appear likewise 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 until she remarried, and the advowson and patronage of this church to her and her heirs for at any time. By which implies the advowson currently being separated from the manor, became an advowson in gross, and although it later on was possessed by the identical house owners as the manor, but obtaining been the moment divided it could in no way later on be appendant to it again. (fn. 5) She quickly afterwards remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, forfeited her daily life-estate in the manor to her late husband’s next heir and brother, Mr. Sam. Edolph, and some many years afterwards alienated the reversion of the advowson, (for she seems to have presented to the Rectory in 1666) to him. Given that which it has continued, 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 current operator and patron of this church.
This rectory is valued in the king’s textbooks at 7l. 16s. 8d. It is now a discharged residing, of the apparent yearly qualified value of 30-4 pounds. In 1578 below ended up communicants seventy-a single. In 1640 it was valued at sixty lbs ., communicants seventy. There are ten acres of glebe.
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