Hinxhill is a small village in the shadow of Wye down. I say a village, its a pair of properties and the Hinxhill Estate, which you can not see from the road.
St Mary has been a church I have required to see inside of for a lot of years, and I have by no means located it open up. But for this Heritage weekend, I had higher hopes.
And I wasn’t unhappy.
St Mary has a very high-quality 17th century memorial on the wall, two wonderful figures on it, and as properly as some awesome Victorian glass, the light-weight coming in at just absent 4 in the afternoon built images best.
A person of people visits you don’t forget for the lights, so a church well worth waiting around for to take a look at.
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Distant and peaceful Hinxhill is the archetypal state church. Practically all relationship from the 13th century, the slender north aisle is a regular give way – built to be made use of as a processional house devoid of benches. The attractive lancet windows, with trefoil headed tops are tiny and very low although the north chapel has a single 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 likely of that date way too. The stained glass is Victorian and mostly by the Scottish firm of Ballantyne – a catalogue of modifying fashion. The south chancel window of Christ weeping is significantly fantastic. The great Royal Arms is just one of quite a few in Kent by Marten of Tenterden and effectively really worth a appear. To the north of the chancel is a seventeenth century tomb with excellent effigies and skulls beneath – which legend suggests was walled up with plaster for two hundred yrs just before remaining re shown 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 situations prepared Hengestelle, is the next parish eastward from Kennington. The manor of Bilsington claims over a good section of this parish.
HINXHILL is an obscure parish, but minor known, and owning extremely minor targeted traffic via it. The village is composed of only 4 or five houses, a single of which, is the principal farm-residence of Sir John Honywood’s estate here, and a further the parsonage. It stands on high ground, with the church on the west side of it. The antient mansion stood near to the south-west corner of the church-lawn, obtaining a wonderful prospect above the adjoining place. The kitchen is all that remains of it now, getting produced use of as an oast and stowages for hops. Not considerably from the church, northward, are Excellent and Small 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 uncomfortable place, the soil a rigid clay, with substantially boggy ground, primarily westward, where it is joined by the river Stour. About the village it it tolerable fertile land, but southward there is a great deal sand, blended with the quarry or rag stone.
A reasonable is held in this article annually on the Saturday in Whitsun-7 days, for toys and pedlary.
In the calendar year 1727, a species of subterraneous fire was taken see of in the valley between Goodcheape in this parish and Wye. This fire commenced in a marshy subject, on the aspect of a very little brook, around the water, and ongoing to burn alongside its bank devoid of spreading significantly for some days later on it appeared on the other side, and extended itself for the space of some acres more than the industry, consuming all the earth in which it burnt into pink ashes, pretty down to the springs, which in most areas lay 4 toes and much more deep. In the area of about six months it had consumed about 3 acres of floor, at which time it burnt in quite a few places, and despatched forth a good smoak and a potent smell very like that of a brick-kiln but it by no means flamed, besides when the earth was turned and stirred up. For some place in which it was burnt the ground felt scorching, nevertheless the grass appeared no a lot more parched than may well be moderately expected from the dryness and warmth of the season. In a number of locations where the earth was turned up, it was identified to be hot and soaked close to four feet deep, and considerably hotter about two toes deep than nearer the surface and when this earth was exposed to the air, though it was quite moist, and not hotter than may be quickly borne by the hand, nonetheless the heat of it amplified so rapidly, that in a several minutes it was all about on fireplace, like phosphorus made with allum and flour. The soil of the field is of the very same character with that the turs is created of in Holland. The surface of it is usually wet, besides in extraordinary dry seasons but this season it was relatively far more parched and tougher than normal. It was tricky to have any of this away, on account of its firing a single piece in unique firing in the pocket of one who was bringing it absent, had just about burnt its way by right before it was perceived. (fn. 1)
In the stone-quarry by Swatfield-bridge, at the southern boundary of this parish, as effectively as in quite a few of the rag-stones about the adjoining parishes of Sevington and Willesborough, is found the ostracites stone, pretty big and on a rag-stone at Lacton, in the latter parish, the flat shell of a person measured 8 inches diameter and the late Mr. Thorpe, of Bexley, had two in his possession, really huge and fair, with the convex components totally filled up with reliable stone, which ended up presented 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 12 months 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 initiatives of the monks to oppose it: and accordingly this estate would seem to have been thus entered in the survey of Domesday as follows, among the his belongings:
In Langebrige hundred, Gislebert holds of Hugo a person yoke, which a selected Sochman held of king Edward. It is and was well worth four shillings. There was nothing there nor is.
Of Etwelle, which Herbert the son of Ivo, holds with no the division of Hugo, he himself holds fourteen acres of land within his division, and it is well worth two shillings.
And still even further in the exact same report, below the like title, is the next entry, which evidently relates to his belongings, component of, or at minimum adjoining to those people in advance of-described:
In Langebrige hundred. In the exact same hundred, is just one rood of land in Suestone, which a person Sochman held of king Edward. There is now a single borderer having to pay twelve pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was well worth thirty pence, and afterwards eighteen, now three shillings.
Robert de Montfort, grandson of Hugo over-pointed out, owning afterwards incurred the displeasure of king Henry II. all his estates, and these between them, them, arrived into the king’s fingers, soon after which it appears that THE MANOR OF HINXHILL, with that of SWATFORD, alias SWATFIELD, was afterwards held by the loved ones of Strabolgie, earls of Athol but Alexander Baliol, lord of Chilham, became possessed of them at the latter stop of king Henry III.’s reign, in correct of Isabel his wife, widow of David de Strabolgie, earl of Athol, and held them, by the courtesy of England, throughout her daily life, she owning been, on the death of her brother Richard de Dover, s.p. turn into entitled to them for her lifestyle, the inheritance of them belonging to John, earl of Athol, her son by her previous spouse, as heir to her brother just before-pointed out. At size they descended down to David, earl of Athol, who died in the 49th calendar year of king Edward III. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth, the eldest, married to Sir Thomas Percy, a more youthful 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 length her grandson Sir Hugh Halsham, in the beginning of king Henry VI.’s reign, passed them absent, in the 3d calendar year 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-hall, whose only daughter and heir Alice, marrying William Kempe, nephew to cardinal archbishop Kempe, he, in her correct, grew to become entitled to them but his grandson Sir William Kempe, about the latter conclusion of king Henry VIII.’s reign, alienated them to Browning from which family, about the reign of queen Elizabeth, they were 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, three cinquesoils, argent, (fn. 2) who later on resided at Hinshill court docket, as did his son Sir Robert Edolph, who held his shrievalty below 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, collectively with the court leet of the fifty percent hundred of Longbridge, by will to Cecilia his wife, for her lifestyle, or so long as she ongoing single but she afterwards remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, of Reading, forfeited her curiosity in them, on which they arrived to Mr. Samuel Edolph, her previous husband’s future brother, who some decades later on conveyed them to his brother in-legislation Mr. John Angel, of Surry, for the a lot more effectual efficiency of his will and he, sometime following the demise of king Charles I. passed them absent to Edward Choute, esq. of Bethersden, who afterwards resided at Hinxhill-courtroom, as did his son Sir George Choute furthermore, who was succeeded in them by his son George Choute, esq. who was developed a baronet in 1684. He pulled down this mansion, and eradicated to Bethersden, wherever he died s.p. in 1721, (fn. 3) owning devised these manors by will to Edward Austen, esq. of Tenterden, later on baronet, who sold them not extensive afterwards 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 courtroom leet for the 50 percent hundred of Longbridge has been for various many years past held by the constable of it, solely for the appointment of a successor in his office environment, as will be more taken notice of hereafter.
WALTHAM is a position listed here, which was after accounted a manor, and antiently belonged to the family members of Criol, from whom it went by relationship into that of Rokesle, and thence again in like way to the family members 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 without reputable issue, but even devoid of any collateral kindred, who could make declare to his estates, this manor, amid others, escheated to the crown, whence it was promptly afterwards granted to Sir Richard Damsell, who not very long soon after handed it away to Goldhill as he did about the latter end of queen Elizabeth’s reign, to Mr. Robert Edolph, of Hinxhillcourt considering that 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 termed, but extra correctly Godchepes, is an estate in the northern aspect of this parish, which for a series of quite a few generations had homeowners of that surname, just one of whom, Thomas Godchepe, as appears by the inquisition taken after his death, died possessed of it in the 31st year of king Edward I. and in his identify and descendants it remained set right until the latter close of king Henry VIII.’s reign, and then it came by the will of 1 of them, named also Thomas Godchepe, just after the limitation of it, to several distinctive individuals, who have been grow to be extinct with out difficulty, to the very last individual mentioned in remainder in the will, Mr. John Barrow. The conditions of which bequest is so connected: Mr. John Barrow, currently being an attorney, was termed upon to make the will of Thomas Godchepe, and by his way inserted the names of 8 individuals, who were being to thrive just about every other in the inheritance of this estate in tail, and getting asked by Barrow, whom he should incorporate far more, he was answered by the testator, that as there had been a reciprocal friendship involving them, he ought to spot his possess name next immediately after them all and they all deceasing in course of time s.p. this estate in the end devolved to him and his heirs. Instances similar to the higher than have transpired 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 getting sent for Mr. Walter Hooper, an lawyer, to make his will, just after having devised his estates to many unique folks successively in tail, seemed at a decline who to name future in the entail, when Mr. Hooper outlined himself and his nephew and all the prior remainders possessing ceased, they each 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 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 docket as just before-stated, he turned entitled to it someday about the latter close of queen Elizabeth’s reign given that which it has handed in like succession of ownership as the manors of Hinxhill and Waltham before-mentioned, down to Sir John Honywood, bart. who is the current 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 weak not receiving alms, vested in the churchwardens and overseers.
The inadequate frequently relieved are about twelve, casually eight.
THIS PARISH is within just the ECCLESIASTICAL JURIADICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is committed to St. Mary, is a modest making, consisting of two isles and two chancels, owning a minimal spire steeple at the west end, in which are 3 bells. In the high chancel, on the north facet, there is a handsome monument, perfectly preserved, for Robert Edolph, esq. and Cicely Browne his spouse, acquiring their effigies kneeling on it. He died in 1631. In the south isle are memorials for Coveney, arms, On a bend, a few trefoils slipt. The north isle is pretty narrow certainly in it is a memorial for Kennet Backe, gent. captain of the practice-bands, obt. 1687. On the south side, in the church-garden, are various memorials for the Wightwicks, and a pretty antient stone, coffinshaped, with a cross tale on it. It appears by the parish sign-up, that a lot of of the Edolphs are buried in this church, from the calendar year 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 others of some be aware in lifetime, show up 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 until Robert Edolph, esq. by will in 1631, gave the manor of Hinxhill to his wife Cecilie, for her lifetime, or until finally she remarried, and the advowson and patronage of this church to her and her heirs for ever. By which usually means the advowson remaining divided from the manor, turned an advowson in gross, and even though it afterwards was possessed by the exact same house owners as the manor, nevertheless owning been when divided it could by no means later on be appendant to it once again. (fn. 5) She soon afterwards remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, forfeited her existence-estate in the manor to her late husband’s upcoming heir and brother, Mr. Sam. Edolph, and some many years afterwards alienated the reversion of the advowson, (for she seems to have offered to the Rectory in 1666) to him. Considering the fact that which it has ongoing, in like succession of ownership 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 owner and patron of this church.
This rectory is valued in the king’s books at 7l. 16s. 8d. It is now a discharged dwelling, of the clear annually accredited worth of 30-four kilos. In 1578 listed here had been communicants seventy-1. In 1640 it was valued at sixty pounds, communicants seventy. There are 10 acres of glebe.
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