I am into my 12th year of the Kent church task, and I are unable to bear in mind how several situations I have been to Fairfield. But its been a when given that I was very last here.
We were using a friend out for his to start with excursion out onto the Marsh, and so this was our initial end.
Storm Dennis was generating alone regarded, but little rain as nevertheless, so I went to get the important though Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a little church, and I have photographed it significantly, so not substantially to do today, just some information and take pleasure in the environment.
Fairfield just isn’t what it looks. What you see now is a reconstruction dating from 1912, and the unique developing referenced by Hasted down below appears to suggest the church was not that old at the convert of the 18th century.
But does it make any difference? Not truly, the area and the way it was rebuilt are amazing, and that truly is all that matters.
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The most unforgettable of churches, it stands fully isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to hold it business. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts to some degree from its antiquarian desire, but this interferes extremely tiny with the visible physical appearance of the inside which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen area! The partitions are of bare woodwork and the minor square windows allow for a lot of light to bathe the white painted box pews and matching a few-decker pulpit. The minimal beam which runs in area of a chancel arch provides a great deal character to the developing. As a total the church most likely dates from the medieval period of time, but it would be extremely hard to place a day to it in watch of the rebuildings.
www.kentchurches.data/church.asp?p=Fairfield
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the upcoming parish westward, in the amount of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, much various from what its identify appears to suggest, is a most forlorn and dreary position, and is seemingly the sink of the entire Marsh. It is made up of an open up degree of marsh-land, unsheltered and with out a hedge or tre through it. It lies very reduced, the eastern section especially, which, for the space of numerous hundred acres, is overflowed in winter season, and results in being 1 excellent sheet of drinking water, and the relaxation of the year is a swamp, coated with flags and rushes, which is in fantastic evaluate owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and while the landholders have currently been place to a pretty appreciable expence, for the drainage of this level, they have not nevertheless, nor in all likelihood at any time will, reap any variety of gain from it. The church stands on a very little increase in this part of it, and is so surrounded by those swamps, that for the greatest aspect of the calendar year it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with fantastic threat through them up to the saddle girts. The western portion, in which is the courtroom-lodge, lies fairly higher, and the land is a great deal much more fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a man of fantastic standing for his wisdom and finding out, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is said by his wife management, while not with no wonderful expence, to have prevailed on all individuals, getting lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, in just the hazard of the sea, to lead in direction of the maintaining of the banking companies and fences to maintain it out, for in advance of the burthen lay completely on the church, and was become an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, written in antient documents Feyrsfelde, was, jointly with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I uncover no individual point out of the time when it was presented, component of the possessions of the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, for the duration of which time, in king Henry the VIIth.’s reign, prior Thomas Goldstone erected a new courtlodge, being a convenient mansion, on it, (fn. 1) in which point out it ongoing till the dissolution of the priory, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. (fn. 2) when it arrived into the king’s fingers, where it did not continue to be prolonged, for the king settled it by his dotation charter, in his 33d calendar year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, aspect of whose belongings it nevertheless stays.
The demesne lands of this manor, remaining of the rack rent of about 1000l. for each annum, have been from time to time demised by the dean and chapter on leases for a few lives, the proper hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford owning the present 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 lousy continually managed are about ten, casually seven.
THIS PARISH is within just 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 1 isle and 1 chancel, possessing a minimal pointed wood turret at the west close, in which hangs one bell. The church appears to be but of quite modern day. There is only 1 memorial in it, at the west end of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It appears by the a number of burials in it, mentioned in the wills in the Prerogative-office environment, Canterbury, to have been previously much larger sized, and to have had a ring of bells in it.
The church of Fairfield, which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon, has usually been an appendage to the manor. It was appropriated by archbishop Edmund, in the 23d 12 months 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 present 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 licensed worth 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 furthermore by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 right here were being thirty-8 communicants.
www.british-record.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp379-381
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