I am into my 12th 12 months of the Kent church venture, and I can not recall how lots of periods I have been to Fairfield. But its been a when since I was previous right here.
We ended up getting a mate out for his to start with trip out onto the Marsh, and so this was our to start with halt.
Storm Dennis was producing itself identified, but little rain as yet, so I went to get the essential whilst Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a modest church, and I have photographed it substantially, so not considerably to do today, just some specifics and delight in the atmosphere.
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The most unforgettable of churches, it stands fully isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to hold it corporation. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts considerably from its antiquarian desire, but this interferes really minimal with the visual overall look of the inside which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen area! The partitions are of bare woodwork and the very little square windows allow a great deal of light to bathe the white painted box pews and matching three-decker pulpit. The minimal beam which operates in location of a chancel arch adds significantly character to the making. As a total the church probably dates from the medieval period, but it would be extremely hard to put a day to it in perspective of the rebuildings.
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the following parish westward, in the degree of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, considerably various from what its title looks to suggest, is a most forlorn and dreary area, and is seemingly the sink of the full Marsh. It consists of an open up degree of marsh-land, unsheltered and devoid of a hedge or tre throughout it. It lies extremely minimal, the eastern portion especially, which, for the room of a number of hundred acres, is overflowed in winter season, and gets to be one particular excellent sheet of h2o, and the rest of the year is a swamp, coated with flags and rushes, which is in fantastic evaluate owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and although the landholders have these days been place to a pretty sizeable expence, for the drainage of this degree, they have not yet, nor in all probability ever will, reap any form of advantage from it. The church stands on a minor increase in this aspect of it, and is so surrounded by individuals swamps, that for the greatest component of the yr it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with great threat by means of them up to the saddle girts. The western component, in which is the court-lodge, lies alternatively greater, and the land is substantially more fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a man of excellent track record for his knowledge and finding out, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is stated by his wife management, although not without having fantastic expence, to have prevailed on all folks, owning lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, within just the danger of the sea, to lead towards the keeping of the banking institutions and fences to keep it out, for just before the burthen lay entirely on the church, and was develop into an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, prepared in antient data Feyrsfelde, was, alongside one another with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I find no specific mention of the time when it was specified, section 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, remaining a convenient mansion, on it, (fn. 1) in which state it ongoing until the dissolution of the priory, in the 31st calendar year of king Henry VIII. (fn. 2) when it came into the king’s hands, where by it did not remain lengthy, for the king settled it by his dotation constitution, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, section of whose possessions it nonetheless continues to be.
The demesne lands of this manor, remaining of the rack lease of about 1000l. for every 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 current curiosity in the lease vested in him.
A court baron is held yearly by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The very poor continuously taken care of are about ten, casually seven.
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 very little, and designed of brick. It is composed of one particular isle and 1 chancel, obtaining a reduced pointed wooden turret at the west stop, in which hangs just one bell. The church seems to be but of quite modern-day date. There is only a person memorial in it, at the west conclusion of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It seems by the various burials in it, stated in the wills in the Prerogative-business, Canterbury, to have been formerly a lot larger, and to have had a ring of bells in it.
The church of Fairfield, which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon, has normally 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 yearly certified value of fifty pounds, 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 also by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 below were 30-eight communicants.
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