I am into my 12th yr of the Kent church job, and I can not don’t forget how many instances I have been to Fairfield. But its been a when due to the fact I was very last in this article.
We were being having a friend out for his initial journey out on to the Marsh, and so this was our 1st halt.
Storm Dennis was making itself regarded, but small rain as still, so I went to get the critical though Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a smaller church, and I have photographed it considerably, so not substantially to do these days, just some facts and love the environment.
Fairfield isn’t really what it seems. What you see now is a reconstruction relationship from 1912, and the original setting up referenced by Hasted below seems to suggest the church wasn’t that aged at the flip of the 18th century.
But does it make a difference? Not genuinely, the area and the way it was rebuilt are stunning, and that actually is all that issues.
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The most unforgettable of church buildings, it stands entirely isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to keep it enterprise. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts rather from its antiquarian fascination, but this interferes really small with the visible physical appearance of the interior which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen area! The partitions are of bare woodwork and the tiny sq. windows allow a good deal of mild to bathe the white painted box pews and matching a few-decker pulpit. The reduced beam which operates in put of a chancel arch provides a great deal character to the building. As a total the church probably dates from the medieval period of time, but it would be impossible to place a date to it in check out of the rebuildings.
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the next parish westward, in the level of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, considerably diverse from what its title appears to be to imply, 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 during it. It lies really lower, the japanese part primarily, which, for the space of a number of hundred acres, is overflowed in winter season, and results in being a person great sheet of h2o, and the rest of the calendar year is a swamp, lined with flags and rushes, which is in great measure owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and although the landholders have these days been put to a extremely appreciable expence, for the drainage of this stage, they have not nonetheless, nor in all likelihood ever will, reap any sort of gain from it. The church stands on a minor increase in this component of it, and is so surrounded by these swamps, that for the biggest aspect of the year it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with good danger by way of them up to the saddle girts. The western component, in which is the courtroom-lodge, lies alternatively larger, and the land is a lot additional fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a male of terrific reputation for his knowledge and discovering, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is claimed by his wife management, nevertheless not with out terrific expence, to have prevailed on all persons, getting lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, in just the hazard of the sea, to contribute in the direction of the protecting of the banking institutions and fences to continue to keep it out, for ahead of the burthen lay completely on the church, and was grow to be an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, composed in antient records Feyrsfelde, was, jointly with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I find no certain point out of the time when it was supplied, section of the belongings 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 point out 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 arms, where by it did not stay extended, 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 possessions it still stays.
The demesne lands of this manor, staying of the rack hire 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 ideal hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford possessing the present fascination in the lease vested in him.
A courtroom baron is held annually by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The bad frequently managed are about 10, casually seven.
THIS PARISH is inside the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is devoted to St. Thomas, (Becket) the martyr, is really tiny, and crafted of brick. It is composed of just one isle and 1 chancel, getting a minimal pointed wooden turret at the west conclude, in which hangs just one bell. The church appears to be but of extremely modern day date. There is only a single memorial in it, at the west end of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It appears by the several burials in it, talked about in the wills in the Prerogative-workplace, Canterbury, to have been previously considerably 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 often 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 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 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 also by it the nomination to the curacy. In 1588 here were being thirty-eight communicants.
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