I am into my 12th year of the Kent church task, and I won’t be able to remember how a lot of instances I have been to Fairfield. But its been a although due to the fact I was very last here.
We have been getting a close friend out for his 1st trip out on to the Marsh, and so this was our 1st cease.
Storm Dennis was creating by itself recognised, but tiny rain as however, so I went to get the important while Jools and Will walked to the church.
It is a modest church, and I have photographed it considerably, so not a lot to do currently, just some aspects and delight in the ambiance.
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The most unforgettable of churches, it stands totally isolated, with neither a tombstone nor a tree to preserve it enterprise. It was reconstructed in 1912 which detracts to some degree from its antiquarian curiosity, but this interferes extremely very little with the visual look of the interior which is vaguely reminiscent of a farmhouse kitchen! The walls are of bare woodwork and the small square windows let a lot of mild to bathe the white painted box pews and matching three-decker pulpit. The lower beam which runs in position of a chancel arch provides much character to the constructing. As a complete the church almost certainly dates from the medieval period of time, but it would be impossible to put a date to it in see of the rebuildings.
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FAIRFIELD
LIES the upcoming parish westward, in the stage of Walland Marsh, and in the jurisdiction of the justices of the county.
The PARISH, far diverse from what its name seems to suggest, is a most forlorn and dreary place, and is seemingly the sink of the complete Marsh. It consists of an open degree of marsh-land, unsheltered and with no a hedge or tre in the course of it. It lies very low, the jap aspect specifically, which, for the place of many hundred acres, is overflowed in wintertime, and gets to be one particular excellent sheet of water, and the relaxation of the calendar year is a swamp, protected with flags and rushes, which is in excellent measure owing to the mismanagement of the sewers, and even though the landholders have currently been place to a extremely significant expence, for the drainage of this stage, they have not but, nor in all likelihood at any time will, experience any form of advantage from it. The church stands on a tiny rise in this aspect of it, and is so surrounded by those people swamps, that for the best portion of the calendar year it is to be approached only in a boat, or on a horse, passing with great hazard by them up to the saddle girts. The western part, in which is the court docket-lodge, lies instead increased, and the land is substantially much more fertile and dry.
William Sellyng, a person of excellent status for his knowledge and mastering, who was elected prior of Christchurch anno 13 Edward IV. and died anno 10 king Henry VII. is reported by his spouse administration, however not with out great expence, to have prevailed on all people, obtaining lands at Apuldre and Fayrefeld, within just the threat of the sea, to contribute in the direction of the maintaining of the banks and fences to keep it out, for ahead of the burthen lay altogether on the church, and was turn into an intolerable expence to it.
The MANOR OF FAIRFIELD, composed in antient records Feyrsfelde, was, collectively with the church, as early as king Henry III.’s reign, for I locate no specific mention of the time when it was offered, aspect 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 convenient mansion, on it, (fn. 1) in which state 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 by it did not stay extensive, for the king settled it by his dotation constitution, in his 33d yr, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, component of whose belongings it nevertheless continues to be.
The demesne lands of this manor, getting of the rack rent of about 1000l. for every annum, have been from time to time demised by the dean and chapter on leases for a few lives, the suitable hon. Geo. Augustus, earl of Guildford owning the present desire in the lease vested in him.
A court docket baron is held yearly by the dean and chapter for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The inadequate frequently taken care of are about ten, casually seven.
THIS PARISH is inside of 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 built of brick. It consists of 1 isle and one particular chancel, possessing a low pointed wood turret at the west conclusion, in which hangs one particular bell. The church seems to be but of extremely present day day. There is only one particular memorial in it, at the west conclude of the isle, for Mr. John Beale, of Fairfield, obt. 1775. It seems by the a number of burials in it, talked about in the wills in the Prerogative-business, Canterbury, to have been previously significantly larger sized, 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 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 present 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 annually certified benefit of fifty pounds, 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 right here were being thirty-eight communicants.
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