I am into my 12th 12 months of the Kent church venture, and I are unable to try to remember how quite a few periods I have been to Fairfield. But its been a though because I was final in this article.
We were being having a mate out for his initially excursion out on to the Marsh, and so this was our initially stop.
Storm Dennis was producing by itself identified, but very little rain as nevertheless, so I went to get the important even though Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a smaller church, and I have photographed it a great deal, so not significantly to do now, just some aspects and delight in the environment.
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The most memorable of churches, it stands completely isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to hold it corporation. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts fairly from its antiquarian curiosity, but this interferes extremely tiny with the visible visual appeal of the interior which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen area! The walls are of bare woodwork and the tiny square windows allow for a good deal of light-weight to bathe the white painted box pews and matching three-decker pulpit. The lower beam which operates in location of a chancel arch adds a great deal character to the setting up. As a entire the church almost certainly dates from the medieval period, but it would be difficult to put a day to it in look at of the rebuildings.
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the up coming parish westward, in the level of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, considerably different from what its title appears to be to imply, is a most forlorn and dreary position, and is seemingly the sink of the whole Marsh. It is made up of an open level of marsh-land, unsheltered and without a hedge or tre in the course of it. It lies very low, the eastern aspect specifically, which, for the space of various hundred acres, is overflowed in winter season, and gets a single fantastic sheet of h2o, and the relaxation of the year is a swamp, protected with flags and rushes, which is in wonderful measure owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and while the landholders have these days been put to a extremely substantial expence, for the drainage of this level, they have not yet, nor in all likelihood ever will, enjoy any variety of gain from it. The church stands on a minor increase in this section of it, and is so surrounded by those swamps, that for the greatest section of the 12 months it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with great danger through them up to the saddle girts. The western aspect, in which is the courtroom-lodge, lies rather greater, and the land is considerably additional fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a guy of excellent standing for his knowledge and finding out, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is claimed by his wife management, even though not devoid of great expence, to have prevailed on all individuals, having lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, inside the risk of the sea, to contribute toward the maintaining of the banks and fences to maintain it out, for prior to the burthen lay completely on the church, and was turn out to be an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, prepared in antient records Feyrsfelde, was, alongside one another with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I locate no distinct point out of the time when it was supplied, element of the belongings of the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, during which time, in king Henry the VIIth.’s reign, prior Thomas Goldstone erected a new courtlodge, being a easy mansion, on it, (fn. 1) in which state it continued until the dissolution of the priory, in the 31st 12 months of king Henry VIII. (fn. 2) when it came into the king’s hands, exactly where it did not continue being extensive, for the king settled it by his dotation constitution, in his 33d 12 months, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, portion of whose possessions it nevertheless remains.
The demesne lands of this manor, becoming of the rack lease of about 1000l. per annum, have been from time to time demised by the dean and chapter on leases for a few life, the proper hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford obtaining the existing desire in the lease vested in him.
A court docket baron is held annually by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The very poor regularly managed are about 10, casually seven.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is committed to St. Thomas, (Becket) the martyr, is quite smaller, and developed of brick. It is made up of one isle and one chancel, getting a low pointed wooden turret at the west stop, in which hangs one bell. The church looks to be but of quite modern-day day. There is only a person memorial in it, at the west stop of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It appears by the several burials in it, stated in the wills in the Prerogative-place of work, Canterbury, to have been formerly significantly more substantial, and to have experienced 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 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 licensed price of fifty lbs ., which sum is, by covenant in the lease from the dean and chapter of the demesne lands of the manor, compensated by the lessee, who has likewise by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 right here have been thirty-eight communicants.
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