I am into my 12th yr of the Kent church job, and I cannot try to remember how a lot of periods I have been to Fairfield. But its been a whilst since I was previous right here.
We were being getting a mate out for his to start with excursion out onto the Marsh, and so this was our initial quit.
Storm Dennis was creating alone acknowledged, but very little rain as however, so I went to get the vital though Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a smaller church, and I have photographed it much, so not much to do nowadays, just some specifics and get pleasure from the atmosphere.
Fairfield is just not what it seems. What you see now is a reconstruction courting from 1912, and the unique constructing referenced by Hasted below would seem to advise the church wasn’t that outdated at the flip of the 18th century.
But does it matter? Not genuinely, the location and the way it was rebuilt are stunning, and that actually is all that issues.
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The most memorable of church buildings, it stands totally isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to maintain it corporation. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts rather from its antiquarian desire, but this interferes extremely minor with the visual overall look of the interior which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen area! The partitions are of bare woodwork and the little sq. home windows make it possible for plenty of light-weight to bathe the white painted box pews and matching 3-decker pulpit. The small beam which runs in place of a chancel arch adds a great deal character to the setting up. As a whole the church likely dates from the medieval interval, but it would be not possible to put a day to it in look at of the rebuildings.
www.kentchurches.details/church.asp?p=Fairfield
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the up coming parish westward, in the degree of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, far unique from what its title seems to indicate, is a most forlorn and dreary spot, and is seemingly the sink of the full Marsh. It is composed of an open amount of marsh-land, unsheltered and devoid of a hedge or tre all through it. It lies incredibly lower, the jap component in particular, which, for the place of quite a few hundred acres, is overflowed in wintertime, and turns into one fantastic sheet of h2o, and the relaxation of the calendar year is a swamp, covered with flags and rushes, which is in great evaluate owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and nevertheless the landholders have recently been set to a very significant expence, for the drainage of this stage, they have not yet, nor in all likelihood at any time will, reap any variety of edge from it. The church stands on a little increase in this portion of it, and is so surrounded by those swamps, that for the finest part of the year it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with wonderful threat by way of them up to the saddle girts. The western component, in which is the courtroom-lodge, lies fairly greater, and the land is substantially a lot more fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a guy of wonderful standing for his wisdom and learning, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is said by his wife administration, while not without the need of wonderful expence, to have prevailed on all people, owning lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, within just the hazard of the sea, to lead to the protecting of the banks and fences to maintain it out, for right before the burthen lay entirely on the church, and was turn out to be an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, penned in antient information Feyrsfelde, was, collectively with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I come across no particular mention of the time when it was provided, element of the possessions of the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, in the course of which time, in king Henry the VIIth.’s reign, prior Thomas Goldstone erected a new courtlodge, being a effortless mansion, on it, (fn. 1) in which condition it continued till the dissolution of the priory, in the 31st 12 months of king Henry VIII. (fn. 2) when it came into the king’s fingers, in which it did not remain very long, for the king settled it by his dotation constitution, in his 33d 12 months, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, aspect of whose belongings it however continues to be.
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 life, the correct hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford getting the present fascination in the lease vested in him.
A courtroom baron is held yearly by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The lousy constantly maintained are about 10, casually 7.
THIS PARISH is in the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Thomas, (Becket) the martyr, is incredibly little, and developed of brick. It is made up of 1 isle and one chancel, getting a reduced pointed picket turret at the west conclusion, in which hangs just one bell. The church appears to be but of really modern day date. There is only a person memorial in it, at the west end of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It seems by the several burials in it, mentioned in the wills in the Prerogative-business office, Canterbury, to have been previously significantly greater, and to have experienced a ring of bells in it.
The church of Fairfield, which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon, has constantly been an appendage to the manor. It was appropriated by archbishop Edmund, in the 23d yr 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 very well as the patronage of this church.
¶The church is now esteemed as a perpetual curacy, and is of the yearly accredited value of fifty lbs, which sum is, by covenant in the lease from the dean and chapter of the demesne lands of the manor, paid out by the lessee, who has likewise by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 in this article were 30-8 communicants.
www.british-record.ac.uk/study-kent/vol8/pp379-381
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