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I am a Suffolk, or Norfolk, boy. Depends on how you define where I was born or where I lived. Anyway, my point is that despite living in East Anglia I thought I knew the area, and yet, Polstead is a place, until Simon presented me of churches to visit, I had not previously heard of. I suppose that is true of most of us, thanks to the efforts of my friends and contacts here on Flickr I am learning more about my home area every day. And on the rare occasions I go back, I try to see as much of it as I can.
Dedham Vale is most famous for John Constable, and why not, because on a bright and golden September morning it is a perfect place for some photography. It really was such a golden day, I should have taken more shots of the landscape, clearly. But I was here for the churches. And churches I visited.
Take Polstead, a wonderfully picturesque village, with the main part of the village climbing up the side of the shallow valley with the church set on the other side of the valley among trees the other side of the pond.
Its called a pond, but it really is a small lake. I did take shots of that, which I will put up at some point.
I drove the few miles from Stoke by Nayland, and as there were just four roads out of the village, my thought was that by driving along one I would find the church. And surely the church would be up on the highest point? I drove through the wonderful village, noting the shop and signs for a tea shoppe, but I could not see it. I drove up one road through the village to a farm beyond.
No luck, I turn round a head into the village and out again on another lane.
Also, no church.
That left the main road which I turned off at the pond to go up into the village, it must have been further along that road. And it was.
Back on the lower road I saw a sign pointing up a hill to where the church could be found. There was more than ample parking, so I park near the church gate, and I spied the church beyond.
There were wonderful views over the valley to the hill where Stoke church was, and at the edge of the churchyard was the largest village war memorial I had ever seen.
The entrance to the church was through a smaller door on the south side of the church, and the sight that greeted me was glorious, whitewashed walls, with wonderful brick Norman arches. A glorious combination.
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The 15th century wealth of South Suffolk almost completely rebuilt many of its churches, and in the triangle of Clare, Lavenham and Stoke by Nayland are some of the best examples of Perpendicular architecture in England. How strange then to find, right in the middle of this area, a maverick, a church quite unlike any other in the county. A beautiful, ancient place that speaks of more distant days than parvenu Perpendicular can possibly do.
Is this the most beautiful setting of any medieval church in East Anglia? Perhaps only Dalham is more sensational. That St Mary is unusual is immediately apparent, for this is the only medieval stone spire in all Suffolk. Medieval spires of any kind are unusual in the county; the only full-sized one is at neighbouring Hadleigh, and there are reconstructed medieval ones at Bramford and Rattlesden. The stone spires of Woolpit and St Mary le Tower, Ipswich, may be grand; but they are, of course, modern inventions.
Polstead churchyard is also clearly ancient, set high and back from the village pond and street. In the churchyard are the remains of the so-called Gospel Oak, attributed with an age of 1300 years, and believed to have been planted by St Cedd, or at least his missionaries. There's no evidence for this, of course, or even for it being that age; although oaks have to come from somewhere, and there may have been an earlier one on the spot. The most beautiful view is to the east, where surprisingly large hills climb to Nayland. Here stands Polstead's war memorial, one of the largest church war memorials in England, remembering the Polstead men who did not come back.
This is an interesting village. As well as the pond, there is an ancient pub, and most famously a murder, for here it was that William Corder slew Maria Marten, and buried her in the red barn, before pretending to elope with her. It makes Polstead the only parish in East Anglia which has had a Tom Waits song written about it. More than 10,000 people witnessed Corder's execution on the market hill in Bury; the account of his trial, bound in his skin, can be seen at the Moyses Hall museum there.
St Mary has an unusual nave roof. Back in the 1980s, essentail repairs had to be carried out economically. Aluminium was chosen, and is a striking sight from a distance on a sunny day. Beneath it, you can see that the Perpendicular age did not completely avoid St Mary, but most details are Decorated, a sign of an early 14th century rebuilding, when faith was still shot through with mystery, and the cold theological rationalism of the 15th century had not yet built tall clerestories to let in the light. You go round to the south side to get in, and because of this many people miss the roundels and fragments of glass set in the windows of the north porch: continental pieces depict Judas betraying Christ with a kiss, the three Magi adoring the infant Jesus, and a pretty St Dorothy, surely part of the same set as the roundels at South Elmham All Saints in the north of the county. There is more old glass inside, but those fragments, in the south side of the chancel, are plainly local, of the Norwich School of the late 15th Century. One depicts a bishop who may be St Leger, and another is a sheep, a fine companion to those in the field to the east of the church.
You step inside to a beautiful space, touched with a patina of age. The most striking aspect of the interior is the colour, the combination between white walls and the red brick of the arcade arches. These bricks bear close examination. They date from the original construction of the arcades, about the year 1200, and yet they are clearly not reused Roman bricks. So, we have here what may be the oldest surviving English bricks still in use for their original purpose - bricks of a similar age can be found at the Hall at nearby Little Wenham, and across the county border at Coggleshall Abbey in Essex.
The arcades predate the aisles, as we have seen, and the little clerestory is hidden by the aisle roofs. This is strange, and also strange is that one of the arcades has been replaced, that to the west end of the south aisle, as though work began, but was not completed. It doesn't take much imagination to suggest that the Black Death of 1348-50 may have finished off (quite literally) the work here. The Norman arcades interlock and shift as we move around the church, opening up new vistas and elevations. There is much to see; an extraordinary brick octagonal font, for instance, which might be any age, but is set on a 13th century base. Sam Mortlock was uncharacteristically uncharitable about the modern fibreglass cover, but I rather like it. On the walls, two consecration crosses sit surprisingly close together, and another wall painting shows a figure, perhaps a bishop. A brass in the north wall of the chancel shows a priest dressed for the Mass - another rare survival. Also in the chancel, a good set of Laudian communion rails.
At the west end of the nave there is a large opening above the tower arch. This might be dismissed as a sanctus bell window, but I think it might be an entrance to the tower itself, that a ladder could be drawn up, as at Thorington. Step through the arch, and turn east, and you see that this, like Westhall, was originally a Norman church with a west entrance; the archway is clearly an exterior doorway, with three bands of heavy chevrons. Above the chancel arch there is a triple window that would have provided a backlight to the rood. Just to the south of the chancel arch, set at an angle, is the memorial to Jacob and Benjamin Brand. The Brands lived at Polstead Hall which you can still see to the west of the church. It is said that the little boy Benjamin was killed in a fall from one of the upper storey windows.
Before leaving Polstead, don't miss the heartbreaking modern memorial just to the east of the churchyard gate. In Memoriam, it is headed, and beneath it the inscription is to Alexander James Sowman aged 32, and his wife Jane aged 29, of this village, both of whom died in 1907 leaving their children Ellen 10 years, Annie 9 years, Alexander 6 years, Ivy 4 years, Rosa 4 months. At the bottom, the inscription concludes Erected by Anthea, the only Grand-daughter.
This is an outstandingly lovely church, full of interest, and not simply because of anything in particular that it contains, but because of itself as a whole piece. Just the way it should be.
Simon Knott, May 2009
Credit: Cyron, Captured Frames
13-8-2017
Zara Tai was consecrated by Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv. Bishop of Parramatta at 11am Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta.
I am a Suffolk, or Norfolk, boy. Depends on how you define where I was born or where I lived. Anyway, my point is that despite living in East Anglia I thought I knew the area, and yet, Polstead is a place, until Simon presented me of churches to visit, I had not previously heard of. I suppose that is true of most of us, thanks to the efforts of my friends and contacts here on Flickr I am learning more about my home area every day. And on the rare occasions I go back, I try to see as much of it as I can.
Dedham Vale is most famous for John Constable, and why not, because on a bright and golden September morning it is a perfect place for some photography. It really was such a golden day, I should have taken more shots of the landscape, clearly. But I was here for the churches. And churches I visited.
Take Polstead, a wonderfully picturesque village, with the main part of the village climbing up the side of the shallow valley with the church set on the other side of the valley among trees the other side of the pond.
Its called a pond, but it really is a small lake. I did take shots of that, which I will put up at some point.
I drove the few miles from Stoke by Nayland, and as there were just four roads out of the village, my thought was that by driving along one I would find the church. And surely the church would be up on the highest point? I drove through the wonderful village, noting the shop and signs for a tea shoppe, but I could not see it. I drove up one road through the village to a farm beyond.
No luck, I turn round a head into the village and out again on another lane.
Also, no church.
That left the main road which I turned off at the pond to go up into the village, it must have been further along that road. And it was.
Back on the lower road I saw a sign pointing up a hill to where the church could be found. There was more than ample parking, so I park near the church gate, and I spied the church beyond.
There were wonderful views over the valley to the hill where Stoke church was, and at the edge of the churchyard was the largest village war memorial I had ever seen.
The entrance to the church was through a smaller door on the south side of the church, and the sight that greeted me was glorious, whitewashed walls, with wonderful brick Norman arches. A glorious combination.
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The 15th century wealth of South Suffolk almost completely rebuilt many of its churches, and in the triangle of Clare, Lavenham and Stoke by Nayland are some of the best examples of Perpendicular architecture in England. How strange then to find, right in the middle of this area, a maverick, a church quite unlike any other in the county. A beautiful, ancient place that speaks of more distant days than parvenu Perpendicular can possibly do.
Is this the most beautiful setting of any medieval church in East Anglia? Perhaps only Dalham is more sensational. That St Mary is unusual is immediately apparent, for this is the only medieval stone spire in all Suffolk. Medieval spires of any kind are unusual in the county; the only full-sized one is at neighbouring Hadleigh, and there are reconstructed medieval ones at Bramford and Rattlesden. The stone spires of Woolpit and St Mary le Tower, Ipswich, may be grand; but they are, of course, modern inventions.
Polstead churchyard is also clearly ancient, set high and back from the village pond and street. In the churchyard are the remains of the so-called Gospel Oak, attributed with an age of 1300 years, and believed to have been planted by St Cedd, or at least his missionaries. There's no evidence for this, of course, or even for it being that age; although oaks have to come from somewhere, and there may have been an earlier one on the spot. The most beautiful view is to the east, where surprisingly large hills climb to Nayland. Here stands Polstead's war memorial, one of the largest church war memorials in England, remembering the Polstead men who did not come back.
This is an interesting village. As well as the pond, there is an ancient pub, and most famously a murder, for here it was that William Corder slew Maria Marten, and buried her in the red barn, before pretending to elope with her. It makes Polstead the only parish in East Anglia which has had a Tom Waits song written about it. More than 10,000 people witnessed Corder's execution on the market hill in Bury; the account of his trial, bound in his skin, can be seen at the Moyses Hall museum there.
St Mary has an unusual nave roof. Back in the 1980s, essentail repairs had to be carried out economically. Aluminium was chosen, and is a striking sight from a distance on a sunny day. Beneath it, you can see that the Perpendicular age did not completely avoid St Mary, but most details are Decorated, a sign of an early 14th century rebuilding, when faith was still shot through with mystery, and the cold theological rationalism of the 15th century had not yet built tall clerestories to let in the light. You go round to the south side to get in, and because of this many people miss the roundels and fragments of glass set in the windows of the north porch: continental pieces depict Judas betraying Christ with a kiss, the three Magi adoring the infant Jesus, and a pretty St Dorothy, surely part of the same set as the roundels at South Elmham All Saints in the north of the county. There is more old glass inside, but those fragments, in the south side of the chancel, are plainly local, of the Norwich School of the late 15th Century. One depicts a bishop who may be St Leger, and another is a sheep, a fine companion to those in the field to the east of the church.
You step inside to a beautiful space, touched with a patina of age. The most striking aspect of the interior is the colour, the combination between white walls and the red brick of the arcade arches. These bricks bear close examination. They date from the original construction of the arcades, about the year 1200, and yet they are clearly not reused Roman bricks. So, we have here what may be the oldest surviving English bricks still in use for their original purpose - bricks of a similar age can be found at the Hall at nearby Little Wenham, and across the county border at Coggleshall Abbey in Essex.
The arcades predate the aisles, as we have seen, and the little clerestory is hidden by the aisle roofs. This is strange, and also strange is that one of the arcades has been replaced, that to the west end of the south aisle, as though work began, but was not completed. It doesn't take much imagination to suggest that the Black Death of 1348-50 may have finished off (quite literally) the work here. The Norman arcades interlock and shift as we move around the church, opening up new vistas and elevations. There is much to see; an extraordinary brick octagonal font, for instance, which might be any age, but is set on a 13th century base. Sam Mortlock was uncharacteristically uncharitable about the modern fibreglass cover, but I rather like it. On the walls, two consecration crosses sit surprisingly close together, and another wall painting shows a figure, perhaps a bishop. A brass in the north wall of the chancel shows a priest dressed for the Mass - another rare survival. Also in the chancel, a good set of Laudian communion rails.
At the west end of the nave there is a large opening above the tower arch. This might be dismissed as a sanctus bell window, but I think it might be an entrance to the tower itself, that a ladder could be drawn up, as at Thorington. Step through the arch, and turn east, and you see that this, like Westhall, was originally a Norman church with a west entrance; the archway is clearly an exterior doorway, with three bands of heavy chevrons. Above the chancel arch there is a triple window that would have provided a backlight to the rood. Just to the south of the chancel arch, set at an angle, is the memorial to Jacob and Benjamin Brand. The Brands lived at Polstead Hall which you can still see to the west of the church. It is said that the little boy Benjamin was killed in a fall from one of the upper storey windows.
Before leaving Polstead, don't miss the heartbreaking modern memorial just to the east of the churchyard gate. In Memoriam, it is headed, and beneath it the inscription is to Alexander James Sowman aged 32, and his wife Jane aged 29, of this village, both of whom died in 1907 leaving their children Ellen 10 years, Annie 9 years, Alexander 6 years, Ivy 4 years, Rosa 4 months. At the bottom, the inscription concludes Erected by Anthea, the only Grand-daughter.
This is an outstandingly lovely church, full of interest, and not simply because of anything in particular that it contains, but because of itself as a whole piece. Just the way it should be.
Simon Knott, May 2009
(another pictures you can see by going to the end of page and clicking on the link!)
History
The parish Hernals was probably around the middle of the 13th Century founded. 1252 for the first time a Hartwicus, pastor of Als (Plebanus de Als), named. The first confirmed reference of a the St. Bartholomew dedicated church to Als stems from the year 1301. Founders of the Church were probably the Lords of Als, who have also given their name for the at the Alsbach (very small river) situated small Weinbauernort (wine-producing location) "Hernals" (Lords Als) and later for the entire 17th District of Vienna.
In the 16th Century, castle and church of Hernals became under the former possessor of the dominion, the families Geyer (1515-1587) and Jörger (1587-1622), one of the most important centers of the Reformation in Lower Austria. After Emperor Maximilian II the nobility in the Archduchy Austria 1568 and 1571 religious freedoms on whose dominions had granted, streamed the Wiener (Viennese people) despite the prohibition of "running out" in the nearby situated Hernals to hear the preachers (Prädikanten - lay preachers). 1577 Emperor Rudolf II had locked the Hernalser church. The services were thus celebrated in the hall of the castle, which was next to the church (between today Kalvarienberggasse and Kindermanngasse). Under the from Upper Austria stemming Jörgern, Barons of Tollet, who were among the leading Protestant nobles of the country, Protestantism reached its peak in Hernals. After the confirmation and extention of the religious liberties by Archduke Matthias, introduced Helmhart Jörgers 1609 in the parish church the public Protestant worship and appointed as the first evangelical pastor Johann Sartorius. The participation of Helmhart Jörgers at the Protestant Estates opposition to Emperor Ferdinand II 1619/20 led to his arrest and the loss of his goods. Castle and church of Hernals were confiscated by the emperor in 1625 and handed over to the cathedral chapter of St. Stephan. On 24 August 1625, the feast of St. Bartholomew, was in Hernals again the first Catholic worship celebrated.
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St. Bartholomew's Church and the castle at the Als
For revivification of the Catholic faith, the Jesuit Karl Musart 1639 initiated the establishment of a Cross with seven stations from Sankt Stephan to Hernals. Supposedly, the path length corresponded exactly to the length of the Passion Path in Jerusalem. The starting point was the "god corpse altar (Body of Christ)" in Saint Stephen, the last stop was the cross altar in the Hernalser parish church. Outside the church was a tomb chapel built after the model of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
During the second Turkish siege in 1683, the Stations of the Cross were destroyed. Of the in the aftermath re-erected stations where the original images were replaced by figures is one till today on the outside wall of the parish church Alser Vorstadt (suburb), 8th district of Vienna, Schlösselgasse.
From 1709-14 had the "Brotherhood of the 72 disciples of Christ", an affiliation of rich, respected citizens of Vienna, build a Calvary on the site of the present parish church and in the same basic extent. Upward stepping one could contemplating seven stations "Jesus expiates the capital sins", which were placed individually and chapel-like, upstairs, outdoor, the widely visible Crucifixion group and going downhill, again in seven stations, "Mary teaches the virtues". In the horseshoe-shaped layed out, supported by pillars artificial mountain was a small church, "Mountain Church" called, built into it. In it was found a representation of the condemnation of Christ and the hand washing of Pilate. It was replaced after the conversion of Calvary by the Ecce Homo group on the balcony of the church.
The pilgrimage rush was so great that the Pauline Fathers from 1766-1769 in place of the in the meantime by penetrading rainwater dilapitated Hill Church (Bergkirche) a new church, the Calvary Church, built. Of this late Baroque church the north facade and half of the nave are part of the present church plant.
From every corner people came. Exhausted, hungry and thirsty they reached the Calvary. Therefore, not only established the at places of pilgrimage usual commerce with devotional objects, but there were also set up shop stalls where meat and drink as well as all sorts of goodies, such as those found in the Orient, were offered for sale - the fasting market (Fastenmarkt) was born. In the next centuries, the pilgrimage to Hernals should develop into a social event, especially for the Viennese playboy set. A priest from the 18th Century complained bitterly that the chapels on the edge of the pilgrimage route often would be relegated to "amorous Rendezvousplatzerln (rendezvous places - the small ones)" and with the pilgrimages under the cloak of repentance "much worldly and sinful nonsense" was commited. Gradually, a variety of entertainment venues and kids amusements were built up later. The Fasting Market is held to this day every year from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday.
In 1892 the Protestant mayor Elterlein founded for the purpose of enlargement a church building association, immediately commissioning for plannings the architect Richard Jordan. In the same year, on 27 August, the laying of the foundation stone for the expansion took place: The Calvary and the choir room of the Baroque church were removed to enlarge the church to the rearside, the front, baroque part remained. The new Calvary was added around the new church and for the Crucifixion group was created a dome space. The reliefs of the old Calvary were mounted on wooden walls, which in turn were attached to the wall of the church. Furthermore, the entire Calvary was covered. The consecration of the extended Calvary Church took place on 23 October 1894 by Bishop Edward Angerer.
The Calvary and the "Church in the mountain"
In the foreground, oversized, the Anne Chapel
On 22 March 1945, during the last great American bombing raid on Vienna, the Hernalser parsonage, the adjacent school with the district museum, the house St. Bartholomew Square 4, the "Bibersteiner house" (Kindermanngasse 2), the former Offizierstöchterinstitut (the institute for daughters of officers) (Kalvarienberggasse 28) and the church were hit hard. Bombs pierced the vault and exploded inside. The roof, all altarpieces, the organ and the interiors were completely destroyed. (The wood reliefs of the Calvary had been taken off in the course of air protection measures by the Reich Office for Preservation of Monuments and brought to Kleinmariazell (Lower Austria - not far away from Vienna), the due to weather damage by stone reliefs replaced stations 5 and 6 remained in the district.)
Under difficult conditions, the church was restored: At Easter 1948 mass could be celebrated in it again. 1953 an organ was installed, in 1955 four new bells were pulled up (the fifth and largest is from the year 1756). As the bell consecration on the day of the signing of the state treaty took place, the Hernalser called their Glocken "Liberty Bells". The exterior renovation was completed. The interior renovation followed from 1960 to 1966. In 1969 the interior with people's altar and an evening church was redesigned, between 1990 and 2000 Church and Calvary were refurbished.
Of particular importance is the image of the "Turkish Madonna": After the liberation from the Turks in 1683, it was found by a Hernalser in Sultan's tent. In his will he bequeathed it to the parish church Hernals. The "Turkish Madonna" was first placed on the high altar, after the enlargement on the left side of the crossing. After the war for the effigy the Lady Altar was created. The "Turkish Madonna" presents to this day bullet holes from the time of the Turkish siege - these were preserved at each restoration.
Further noteworthy are the Pieta in the right aisle, the baroque pulpit and the organ.
Bishop Karen Oliveto consecrates Alpha May Franciliso as a deaconess during the 2022 United Women in Faith Assembly in Orlando, Florida, on May 20, 2022. Sixty deaconesses and home missioners were consecrated at the event.
United Methodist Women became United Women in Faith earlier in 2022.
(for further pictures please go to the link at the end of page!)
Krems an der Donau (Stein)
Community Krems at the Danube
History
Stein, copper engraving, Georg Matthäus Vischer, 1672
© IMAREAL, Austrian Academy of Sciences
The twin city of Krems-Stein in 1995 celebrating the 1000 year jubilee, is one of the oldest cities in Austria. The terrace formation, the favorable climate and location at the crossroads of the Danube trade route with the north-south connections from the Waldviertel (Wood district) and the wine district (Weinviertel) favored for thousands of years the colonization of the area and contributed essentially to the development as a center in the Danube region.
For a far into the early days reaching settlement tradition speak finds from the Paleolithic (Hundssteig, Wachtberg, 30000-25000 BC), from the Neolithic period (ceramic cultures), but also the special role of the region in the Early Bronze Age Unetice Culture (1800-1500 BC) as well as traces of the urn field culture of the late Bronze Age and the Hallstatt culture (800-400 BC). In the La Tène period settled here probably celticized groups, in the Roman period the area belonged since the beginning of the second Century to the sphere of influence of the Germanic Marcomanni. According to the biography of Saint Severin ("Vita Severini") the center of the Germanic Rugians in the second half of the 5th Century probably lay in the area of Krems-Stein, for the next century the cemetery in Unter-Rohrendorf proves the presence of the Lombards.
First time mentioned by name Krems is in a charter of Emperor Otto III of 9th August 995 as orientalis urbs que dicitur Chremisa - as a fortified place in the East which is named the Chremisa. The settlement then lay on the eastern border of the small Mark Ostarrîchi in close proximity to Moravia, but soon it grew beyond the castle district and developed in the 11th Century to a market settlement around the High market (Hoher Markt). Since 1014 Krems was due to a Royal donation (Königsschenkung) parish. The sister city of Stein is only in the second half of the 11th century (1072) named. Its center was the to parish Krems belonging Michael Church. Stone primarily was a toll and loading berth for salt, wine and grain. From skipper settlement arose a market and in the 12th Century a town settlement (since 1144). The character as a city of Krems is yet a little earlier for the year 1136 proven.
The position at the Danube the two cities had assigned their complementary functions: Stein lay directly at the stream and became toll and landing place for ships, had but due to the rising hillsides little space for large commercial and market places and construction activity. Krems, however, was cut by tributaries and floodplains from the main stream, but offered plenty of space for colonization and markets as well as the protection of a mighty castle.
Around 1150 Krems was the most important commercial center in the country. In the tower of the town castle of Krems at the steep slope of the High market between 1130-190 the first Babenberg coin, the Kremser penny, was minted. On the world map of the Arab scholar Idrisi Krems is named before Vienna, which only in subsequent time should surpass Krems. The city's growth probably already in the first half of the 12th Century the relocation of the parish of St. Stephen's Church on woman mountain (Frauenberg - now Piaristenkirche) to the foot of the mountain made necessary where the new Vitus church became parish. End of the 12th Century Krems was surrounded by a city wall, 1196 the first city judge is testified. The city has been expanded several times and extended in the late Middle Ages from the Steiner Tor in the west to the Krems river in the east. The Dominican monastery, founded in 1236 was initially outside the city.
Stein evolved from the high terrace in the direction of Nicholas church, which in 1283 was elevated into the status of a parish. In the late Middle Ages, the area between Landstraße and the Danube was built-up and the city in the area of the in 1223/1224 founded Minorits monastery (consecration of the church in 1264) and between Reisperbach and Linzertor extended.
Both cities since the beginning of the 12th Century were princely and complemented each other as land and Danube trading venues. Their close relationship has led to a unique construction as a twin city. Both cities had a civic community with its own military and financial sovereignty, but had a common municipal law (1305) and a common municipal judge and later mayor (since 1416). 1463 Emperor Frederick III the two cities conferred a common coat of arms, the imperial double-headed eagle in gold on a black background. In addition to Krems-Stein only Wiener Neustadt and Vienna had the privilege to lead the double eagle. The union of the cities existed until 1849, after 90 years of independence of Stein, in 1939 took place the recent merger.
The economic boom in the late Middle Ages was based on the viticulture and trade with wine, salt and iron. In Stein shipping formed a significant economic factor. 1463 Stein received by the Emperor Frederick III the privilege to build a fixed bridge, the second oldest after Vienna in the area of the Austrian course of the Danube river.
From the richness and self-conciousness of the citizenship testifies the in 1265 built "Gozzoburg" of the mighty city judge Gozzo of Krems, a castle-like town house with loggia. The appearance of both cities is characterised of the numerous houses from the 15th and 16th century, which are designed with bay windows, sgraffito and paintings and as well as arcade courtyards inside. A characteristic of both cities are the since the High Middle Ages profable "vintage courtyards" of monasteries and bishoprics, which were used to store wine and served for the administration of the monastic possessions, such as the Passau courtyards, the Kremsmünstererhof or the Göttweigerhof. The Göttweigerhofkapelle (chapel) is equipped with valuable frescoes from the early 14th Century. About 1500 Krems through the work of the Augsburg artist Jörg Breu became a center of the Danube School.
Since the second half of the 16th Century Krems was mostly Protestant. The resistance of the citizens against the recatholicization in 1593 led to the loss of all privileges. It was not until 1615 as Emperor Matthias cancelled the harsh verdict and restored the independence of the city. A big part in the Catholic restoration played the in 1616 settled Jesuits who ran the school and by their theater performances became famous. In addition to the Jesuit college emerged in the time of the Counter-Reformation the Capuchin Monastery Und (1614) and the early Baroque new building of the Kremser parish church, in which renowned Italian artists took part.
The 17th Century due to the shift of international trade routes and the decline of the importance of the Danube trade brought an economic downturn. Severe damages the city suffered in 1645 by the Swedes, who besieged Krems, conquered and extended it to the main fortress, and by the reconquest a year later. It was only after 1700 as a upswing set in again, which found its expression in the Baroque style of the city. Employers for the resident artists or handicrafts were the big monasteries of the country. One of the most important painters of this period was Martin Johann Schmidt, the Kremser Schmidt, until his death (1801) in Stein maintaining a painting workshop.
In the second half of the 18th Century changed the ecclesiastical structures of the city. The since 1616 the Jesuits transmitted Frauenberg church was taken over by the Piarists in 1776 after the abolition of the Order (1773). 1783 the Dominican Monastery, 1796 the Minorit's monastery and the Capuchin monastery was abolished and profaned.
The biggest change of the cityscape since the Middle Ages took place in the 19th Century by the removal of the ramparts and the city gates. Remained except for remnants of the wall only the Steinertor (gate), which became the symbol of the city. Of the in the course of industrialization established factories of importance were the leather factory in Rehberg, the factory for the manufacturing of mats and rugs made of coconut fibres in Stein and the first quartz millstone factory of Austria. Great reputation also enjoyed the organ builders Zachistal, Capek and Hradetzky and the Kremser bell founders, including Matthias Prininger, Ferdinand Vötterlechner and Johann Gottlieb Jenichen. In the last third of the century followed the connection to the railway network, 1909, the Donauuferbahn (railway line along the Danube) was opened.
After the Second World War - on 2nd April 1945, there was heavy bombing - succeeded the city to preserve the architectural heritage largely in its original state and to connect it with modernity. The successful revitalization already received international recognition, Krems in 1975, 1979 and 2009 was Europa Nostra award winner. The city with the "Art Mile" in Stein (Kunsthalle, Museum of Caricature and Artothek), the Danube Festival and numerous cultural events developed to one of the most important cultural centers in Lower Austria .
The art treasures of the city as well as tradition and the history of wine-growing presents the "museumkrems" in the former Dominican church. Which the in 1994 founded and in 1995 opened "Danube University", Krems became 13th Austrian university town and is since 2002 the seat of a University of Applied Sciences (International Management Center). With the since 1998 annually realized Wachau Marathon Krems itself also could established as a "sports city".
In the 1970s, the city once again experienced a major expansion. In 1972 joined the community of Hollenburg Krems. The once separating Danube became the connecting element between the urban north and the "orchard" in the south. Meanwhile, the "Southtown" became integral part of the city, but could maintain its rural character.
Krems has partnerships with cities in Denmark, Germany, France, Czech Republic and the USA.
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Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin, Morray, Thursday 5th November 2015.
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Re-dedication of the church at Pluscarden Abbey..
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen Hugh Gilbert led special three-hour mass – believed to be the third in the history of the abbey, which was reoccupied in 1948 after being empty for centuries..
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Over 30 priests and a large number of guests took part in the celebration..
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A Picture by Michal Wachucik / Abermedia
St John the Baptist, Wantisden, Suffolk
A new entry on the Suffolk Churches site.
Remote churches have a peculiar fascination for me. It is as if they are cut off in time as well as space. Things have happened at a different pace, in different ways. Sometimes, it seems as though they have been forgotten, and that much has survived. In Suffolk there are some lovely, unspoiled, remote churches. I think of Badley, I think of Little Wenham. But most of all I think of Wantisden.
It had been nearly twenty years since I'd last visited Wantisden church. And yet, I had thought of it often, and even passed it close enough to see it off in the distance. The church is located in fields about half a mile from the nearest road. This is not that unusual in East Anglia, probably a dozen others are equally remote. And St John the Baptist has always been remote, for there has never been a village of Wantisden. This church served the residents of Wantisden Hall, and their workers.
What makes the church remarkable however, is not its remoteness, but its location. Until the 1930s, there were just two little cottages about 400 yards north of the church, by a bend in the little river. They were called Bent Waters cottages. At the start of the second world war, this whole area was requisitioned by the military, and by 1950, USAAF Bentwaters was one of the biggest and busiest military airbases in the world. The site of the cottages is somewhere under the main runway now, the river long-culverted. The church was enclosed by the military area until the 1950s, when the new perimeter fence cut in and put it outside the base.
However, the only access to it was through the base (the fields were still cordoned off as tank training areas) so anyone who wanted to tend a grave had to have a military escort through the base. At this time, the modern top road didn't exist, and the nearest other road to the church was a mile away. When the fields were reopened in the sixties, the current top road was built, and a footpath was put in from it. In the 1980s, it was turned into a roadway, but it was still shown on OS maps as a footpath, perhaps because of its proximity to the airbase. It seems that Russia wasn't the only country during the cold war to put deliberate errors on maps to confuse the enemy.
St John the Baptist is a Norman church, with a 15th century Coralline Crag tower, one of only two in England. The other is about a mile off at Chillesford, where you can also see the medieval quarry from which the crag was dug. Simon Cotton tells me that bequests were made for this tower in 1445 and 1449. Given its location, you might think that the church has been declared redundant, but it is still looked after as part of the Orford benefice, a tremendous act of faith and love.
You step in through a small Norman south doorway into an organic space, close to the earth from which it springs, rough and ready and yet also lovingly kept. Above the doorway is a grinning grotesque headstone, probably a lion, an early medieval symbol of Christ. Turning east, the chancel arch is Norman, a rare beast in Suffolk. Above it, the 18th Century decalogue boards are in their original place, and a royal arms dated 1800 hangs on the north wall.
The bench ends are medieval, their figures entirely destroyed, although enough remains of one to show that it may well have depicted a fox preaching to geese. They probably came from elsewhere, but some crude 17th Century benches huddle in the north west corner, and this was no doubt their original home.
The font is a great round tub of a thing, contemporary with the chancel arch. It is one of England's few surviving Norman fonts built of blocks of stone. The wooden credence shelf survives in the 14th Century piscina.
Ann Comyn, on the north chancel wall, exchanged time for eternity in 1832. Mortlock observed that such a transition seems unremarkable in a place like Wantisden. Before that, Mary Wingfield lyved in ye trewe feare of God and died in the faith of Christ in 1582. Robert Harvie, one of the Harveys of Ickworth, was having no such truck with even such puritan sentiments as these when he died shortly before the start of the English Civil War in 1637, his inscription simply telling us that he died and was buried. Curiously, the inscription also records the death of his wife Marian, who died the - but there the inscription ends. Presumably it was installed before her death in full expectation that she would join him, but perhaps in the tumult and fury of the Civil War and subsequent Commonwealth she moved elsewhere, or was even forgotten.
Outside in early spring, the wind ruffles the bare trees, and the churchyard begins to overgrow the mainly 19th Century graves. There is the Tunstall forest in the distance, dark and forbidding. But the most surreal view is to the west. Here, 20 metres or so from the tower, is the perimeter fence of the USAF base, abandoned in the early 1990s. When I last came here in 2000 the buildings were boarded up, the control tower had the cladding hanging off it, the runway, as wide as Heathrow's, was overgrown, and sheep grazed all around. Beyond were the nuclear missile bunkers, built to be indestructible. All this has now been replaced by mundane warehousing and storage facilities, poor neighbours to the thousand-year-old church.
I thought back to my first visit here in the early 1990s, watching from beneath as an F1-11 jet screamed into the sky. It was from this base that the Americans bombed Libya in 1987. And that same decade, while the brave women of Greenham Common were protesting about Cruise Missiles there (how long ago that now seems!) the US Airforce was quietly stockpiling nuclear warheads here. At one time, USAF Bentwaters is said to have stocked enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 5 times over.
And accidents do happen. In a forgotten leaflet in the depths of Suffolk Libraries' reserve collection, I found a story that, in the 1940s, there was an accident at the nearby tank school. Several people were killed, and the cracks in the walls of Wantisden church are still there. But, this church survives, thanks to the loving care of the local faith community.
This is a strange place, like no other. It stands as a witness to a millennium of faith. The vivid sandy colour of the coralline tower, full of fossilised shells, rears primevally above the corrugated fields. When I came here in 2000, a couple of elderly parishioners were planting a millennium yew tree in the churchyard, grown from a cutting of a tree believed to be already a thousand years old, as old as this church.
Time passes. And there is still a great sense of permanence here, because the evidence is so close at hand that, as empires rise and crumble, as the violence of the 20th century sinks back into the silence of these ancient fields, as the years turn into millennia, faith endures. And so, of course, does love.
Image from the preparations for the Ordination and Consecration of Matthew A. Gunter as Eighth Bishop of Fond du Lac, Friday April 25th, 2014 at Appleton Alliance Church.
In these uncertain times, it is unclear if we should go out to do normal things, let alone if we find the churches open when we get there.
St Michael is under the care of the CCT, and so the electronic lock makes sure the door is open each day at ten.
The church stands on a hill, overlooking west Kent, must be wonderful on a fine summer day. On a grey autumn one, less so.
We park at the lych gate, walk up the very un-Kentish stone steps, up the churchyard to the south Priest's door, which opened easily.
Inside, it was a light and airy space, with Victorian oak pews, and walls filled with memorials. Much of interestm unlike some of those I saw on Heritage weekend where there was barely 30 shots taken, here I took a good hundred, and most are keepers.
We leave the church and are greeted with the majestic view as the churchyard slopes away to the lychgate, and the road beyond vanishing down the down.
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The medieval church was superseded by a new church in the village in 1842, but remains in good repair being maintained today by The Churches Conservation Trust. In many ways it is the typical Kentish church, showing work of many different periods and many monuments to remind us of former inhabitants. As in some other local churches the north aisle is the primary one, even though the church is entered from the south. The restoration by diocesan architect Joseph Clarke in 1857 was rather heavy-handed and provided a veritable sea of oak pews. In contrast the south chapel, which belonged to the Twysden family of Roydon Hall, has a nice unrestored atmosphere, as does the south porch which shows an abundance of medieval (and later) graffiti. At the lychgate is the famous stable used by nineteenth-century congregations.
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EAST PECKHAM.
SOUTHWARD from Mereworth lies the parish of East or Great Peckham, written in Domesday, PECHEHAM, and in the Textus Roffensis, PECHAM. It has the appellation of East Peckham from its situation eastward from West or Little Peckham, and of Great, from its large extent in comparison of that parish.
They both had their name of Peckham probably from their situation; peac signifying in Saxon the peke or summit of an hill, and ham, a village or dwellingplace.
THIS PARISH is situated within the district of the Weald, in a country, which though for the most part too deep and miry to be pleasant, is yet exceedingly fertile as to its products, in corn, hops, and cattle, and is full of fine oak timber, with the trees of which it abounds. It joins northward up to Mereworth, and lord Despencer's park, whence it descends southward for upwards of two miles to Brandt, formerly called Stidal's bridge, and Sladis bridge, and the river Medway, which flows along the southern boundaries of it, besides which it is watered by a small stream, which rises near Yokes, in West Peckham, and runs through this parish into the river. The high road from Maidstone through Mereworth, towards Hadlow and Tunbridge, runs along the western boundary of this parish, as that from Watringbury through Nettlested to Brandt bridge, and across the Medway towards Cranbrook, does along the eastern boundary of it. In that part of this parish next to Mereworth, is the village and church of East Peckham, and on the rise of a hill the antient and respectable looking mansion of Roydon-hall, the grounds of which are bounded on each side by coppice woods; hence the ground descends to a more wet and deeper country, being a stiff clayey soil, mostly grazing land, exceedingly rich and fertile, on which are bred and fatted some of the largest beasts of any in these parts. On the roads leading to Brandt-bridge in this part of East Peckham are several hamlets, as those of Chitley-cross, North-hatch, Halestreet, and others.
This parish was antiently bound with others in this neighbourhood to contribute to the repair of the 5th pier of Rochester bridge.
IN THE YEAR 96y, queen Ediva, mother of king Edmund and king Eadred, gave to Christ-church, in Canterbury, among other lands, this estate of Peckham, free from all secular service, excepting the trinoda necessitas of repelling invasions, and the repair of castles and highways.
Peekham remained part of the possessions of Christchurch at the consecration of archbishop Lanfranc, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign.
The revenues of this church were at that time enjoyed as one common stock by the archbishop and his convent; but archbishop Lanfranc, after the example of foreign churches, separated them into two parts; one of which he allotted for the maintenance of himself and his successors in the see of Canterbury, and the other for his monks, for their subsistence, cloathing, and other necessary uses.
In this partition, Peckham fell to the share of the monks, and it is accordingly thus entered in Domesday, under the title of Terra Monachorum Archiepi, i e. the land of the monks of the archbishop.
The archbishop himself holds Pecheham. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was taxed at six sulings, and now for six sulings, and one yoke. The arable land is ten carucates. In demesne there are two, and sixteen villeins, with fourteen borderers, having four carucates and an half. There is a church, and ten servants, and one mill, and six acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of ten hogs.
Of the land of this manor, one of the archbishop's tenants holds half a suling, and was taxed with these six sulings in the time of king Edward the Confessor, although it could not belong to the manor, except in the scotting, because it was free land.
Richard de Tonebridge holds of the same manor two sulings and one yoke, and has there twenty-seven villeins, having seven carucates, and wood for the pannage of ten hogs, the whole value being four pounds. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, the manor was worth twelve pounds, when the archbishop received it eight pounds, and now what he has is worth eight pounds.
In the 10th year of king Edward II. the prior of Canterbury obtained free warren for his manor of Peckham among others. About which time it was valued at ten pounds. It continued part of the possessions of the priory of Christ-church till its dissolution in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it was surrendered up to the king, who that year granted this manor to Sir Thomas Wyatt, and his heirs male, to hold in capite by knight's service, and he in the 35th year of that reign conveyed it to George Multon; but there being no fine levied, or recovery had of it, the crown, on the attainder of his son, Sir Thomas Wyatt, for high treason in the 1st year of queen Mary, seized on it as part of his possessions.
The court-lodge and demesnes of this manor were afterwards granted away by the crown; but THE MANOR ITSELF continued part of the royal revenue at the death of king Charles I. in 1648; after which the powers, then in being, seized on the royal estates, and passed an ordinance to vest them in trustees, to be surveyed and sold, to supply the necessities of the state; in pursuance of which, there was soon afterwards a survey taken of this manor, by which it appeared, that the quit-rents due from the freeholders in free socage tenure, the like due from the freeholders in the township of Marden, the rent of hens and eggs from the tenants in those townships, and the profits of courts, were worth altogether seventeen pounds and upwards. That there was a court leet and court baron held for the manor, and a heriot was due from the freeholders of the best living thing of such tenant, or in lieu thereof 3s. 4d. in money.
Soon after which this manor was sold to colonel Robert Gibbon, with whom it continued till the restoration of king Charles II. when it again became part of the revenues of the crown.
The grant of it has been many years in the family of the duke of Leeds, the present grantee of it being his grace Francis, duke of Leeds.
THE COURT-LODGE WITH THE DEMESNES of the manor of East Peckham was granted the nextyear after the attainder of Sir Thomas Wyatt, by letters patent, anno 1st and 2d of king Philip and queen Mary, to Sir John Baker, to hold in capite by knight's service, (fn. 1) who passed his interest in them, in the 2d year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, to Anthony Weldon, esq. but the crown afterwards disputing his title to them, the queen, in her 10th year, granted them to William Dodington, and the next year, the attorney-general exhibited an information against the heirs of Weldon in the court of exchequer, on account of these premises, and judgment was had against him. After which a writ of error was brought, and divers other law proceedings had, by which, however, at last, Ralph, son of Anthony Weldon above-mentioned, established his title to them; and his son, Sir Anthony Weldon, (fn. 2) in the latter end of the reign of king James I. passed them away by sale to George Whetenhall, esq. after whose death they came by descent into the possession of Thomas Whetenhall, esq. of Hextalls-court, in this parish, whose descendant, Henry Whetenhall, esq. alienated this estate to Sir William Twysden, bart. of Roydon-hall, whose descendant, Sir William Jarvis Twisden, bart. is the present possessor of it.
ROYDON-HALL, antiently called Fortune, is a seat here, which was of no great account till about the reign of king Henry VIII. when Thomas Roydon, of son of Thomas, second son of Thomas Roydon, of Roydon-hall, in Suffolk, where this family had been seated many generations, and bore for their arms, Chequy, argent and gules, a cross azure, came into this county, and seated himself at Fortune, and erected this seat; on which he affixed his own name, and in the 31st year of that reign procured his lands in this county to be disgavelled, by the act passed that year for this purpose. He married Margaret, daughter of William Wheten hall, esq. of this parish, by whom he had three sons and five daughters.
On the death of the sons without issue, his five daughters became his coheirs; the second of whom, Elizabeth, had this estate as part of her share, and intitled her husband, William Twysden, esq. of Chelmington, in this county, to the fee of it. She survived him, and afterwards remarried Cuthbert Vaughan, esq. and lastly Sir Thomas Golding. She left by her first husband, one son, Roger Twysden, and a daughter, Margaret, married to Richard Dering, esq. of Pluckley.
The family of Twysden, written in antient deeds, Twisenden, and in Latin, De Denna Fracta, were originally of the parish of Sandhurst, in this county, the place where they resided being called the Den, or borough of Twisden, at this time, and bore for their arms, Girony of four, argent and gules, a saltier between four cross-croslets, all counterchanged.
Adam de Twysden resided at Twysden borough, in the 21st year of king Edward I. and dying without issue, as well as his brother Gregory, John de Twysden, the youngest brother, became his heir. His descendant, Roger Twysden, in the reign of king Henry V. married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Chelmington, esq. of Chelmington, in Great Chart, who bore for his arms, Argent, three chevrons azure, nine cross-crosiets sable. At which seat his descendants, who lie buried in Great Chart church, afterwards resided, down to William Twysden, esq. who was of Chelmington, and married Elizabeth, second daughter and coheir of Thomas Roydon, and in her right became possessed of Roydon-hall, as above-mentioned, to which he removed soon afterwards. He procured his lands in this county to be disgavelled by the act of the 2d and 3d of king Edward VI. in which he is called William Twisenden, and was sheriff of this county in the 41st year of queen Elizabeth. He died in 1603, and was buried in this church, as was Anne his wife, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Wyatt, of Allington, who died in 1592. by whom he had issue twelve children, of whom only six survived him.
William Twysden, esq. the eldest son, greatly improved Roydon-hall, and having been before knighted, was afterwards made a baronet on June 29, 1611. He was a man, who addicted his time mostly to study, being versed in different parts of learning, especially in the Hebrew and Latin languages, and collected many choice manuscripts and books, which he left to his eldest son. He died in 1628, and was buried in this church leaving by Anne his wife, eldest daughter of Sir Moile Finch, knight and baronet, several sons and daughters; of whom Sir Roger, the eldest son, was his successor in title and estates here; Sir Thomas, the second son, was on the restoration of king Charles II. made one of the justices of the king's bench, and being afterwards made a baronet, seated himself at Bradbourn, in East-Malling, the seat of his descendant, the present Sir John Papillon Twisden, bart. under which place an account has already been given of that branch; and Charles, the third son, was created LL. D. and had given him, by his father's will, the seat of Chelmington before mentioned.
¶Sir Roger Twysden, knight and baronet, the eldest son, resided at Roydon-hall, round which he obtained licence from king Charles I. to inclose a park, and likewise a grant of a charter of free warren for the ground inclosed. He died in 1672, and was buried in this church, having suffered greatly for his loyalty during the great rebellion, being forced at last to compound for his estate for a large sum of money. He was a great encourager of learning, and a generous patron of learned men, being himself a master of our antient Saxon and English history and laws, and left behind him the united character of the scholar and the gentleman. In whose descendants resident at Roydon hall, who severally lie buried in East Peckham church, this seat with his other estates in this parish, came down to Sir William Twysden, bart. who resided at Roydon-hall, and married Jane, daughter of Francis Twisden, esq. youngest son of Sir Thomas Twisden, bart. of Bradbourn, by whom he had three sons; William, his heir and successor; Thomas, a colonel in the army; and Philip, late bishop of Raphoe; and three daughters. He died in 1751, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William Twysden, bart. who at first followed a military life, but afterwards retired to Roydon hall, and married Jane, the daughter and heir of Mr. Jarvis. He died at Roydon-hall in 1767, leaving his lady surviving, and by her three sons, WilliamJarvis, Heneage, and Thomas, and one daughter, Frances, who in 1783 married Archibald, late earl of Eglington. Sir William Jarvis Twysden, bart. the eldest son, married in 1786, the daughter of governor Wynch, and resides at Roydon-hall, of which he is the present owner.
This parish is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and being a pecu liar of the archbishop of Canterbury, is as such within the deanry of Shoreham.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a fair large building, with a square tower at the west end. It stands near the summit of the hill almost adjoining to the southern pales of Mereworth-park.
In the 15th year of king Edward I. the church of Peckham was valued at thirty-five marcs, and the vicarage of it at twelve marcs. (fn. 5)
In the reign of king Edward III. the taxation of East Peckham was one carucate of arable land, with a meadow of the endowment of the church, worth six pounds per annum, and two dove-houses of the rectory, of the endowment of the church, and worth two marcs, and the profit of the garden, of the like endowment, worth 2s. 5d. (fn. 6)
The church, with the advowson of the vicarage, was always appendant to the manor of East Peckham, and as such part of the possessions of the priory of Christchurch, in Canterbury, till the dissolution of that monastery in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it was surrendered into the king's hands, who granted the manor to Sir Thomas Wyatt, and he settled this church, with the advowson of the vicarage, by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions they remain at this time.
This church is valued in the king's books at 231. and the yearly tenths at 21. 6s.
The vicarage of it is valued at 141. and the yearly tenths at 11. 0s. 8d.
It appears by the terrier of the lands belonging to the impropriate rectory, and vicarage of East Peckham at the visitation of archbishop Laud in 1634, that the glebe lands belonging to this parsonage in the park of Mildmay, earl of Westmoreland, which he had from the church of Canterbury, were twenty acres, called Keamehatches; that there were to the parsonage house two gardens, one orchard, two yards, three barns, one stable, one pidgeon-house, one granary, eight acres of meadow, called Well-mead, alias Parsonage mead, one mead called the Vicarage-mead, containing three acres, and two other parcels of land, containing seven acres, called Quarrey-mead, and the Quarrey, and that the tenant of the parsonage was Stephen Arnold; that there was to the vicarge one house, with a little orchard, by estimation almost an acre, and a little garden plot, but that which was called the Vicarage-mead, the impropriator of the parsonage kept and used.
¶On the abolishing of deans and chapters, after the death of king Charles I. their lands were by the powers then in being, ordered to be sold, to supply the necessities of the state; previous to which a survey was made, in 1649, of this parsonage, by which it appeared, that there were here a house, outhouses, &c. one orchard, one garden, and one great yard, worth fix pounds per annum, and the tithes and other profits eightyeight pounds per annum; that the parsonage, with the house, glebe lands, tithes, profits, &c. was let by the dean and chapter of Canterbury, in 1638, to John Tucker, gent. of Egerton, excepting one parcel of land, called the Hatches, demised to Sir Francis Fane, late earl of Westmoreland, and the advowson of the vicarage, at the yearly rent of 23l. 6s. 8d. but were worth upon improvement, over and above the said sum, 85l. 14s. 3d. per annum; that the lessee was bound to repair the premises, and the chancel of the church, and likewife to pay twenty shillings for entertainment money. (fn. 7) And by another valuation, taken the next year, the vicarage was valued at twenty-four pounds yearly income. (fn. 8)
In the 19th year of the reign of king Charles II. anno 1667, in consequence of the king's letters of injunction, the dean and chapter of Canterbury augmented this vicarage with the yearly sum of forty pounds, the yearly income of it is now upwards of 270l. per annum.
The present lessee of the parsonage is Sir William Jarvis Twysden, bart.
The Reverend Canon David Williams is consecrated by the Most Reverend Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Winchester Cathedral today.
Pictured: The Most Reverend Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Right Reverend David Williams, Bishop of Basingstoke, with the Bishop's family, wife Helen Williams (centre) and his children.