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I should have woken up this morning at the Radisson Blu in Arhus, but due to "reasons", that got cancelled, which meant I was home for Heritage Weekend, which as you can imagine, I was very upset about.
The day was to be a mix of the familiar and new, with revisits to some I had not been to in a decade.
It is hotter than ever, and now added to which is a haze caused by the sand blown up from the Sahara, which makes to look and feel like there are wildfires burning nearby. Anything more than a mile away is lost in a brown haze, and there being no wind to blow it away.
We went to Tesco, obviously, did some gathering and pushing the week and feeble out of the way, then rushed to pay and leave. Getting back home to have breakfast and be all tidied away for just gone nine when we left for a hard day's chuchcrawling.
Avoiding the port is obvious, even if the traffic radar said it was delay free, best not to take a risk in getting caught up in traffic that can last for days.
And traffic was heavy on the road to Folkestone and the motorway, but we soo turned off onto the A20 to Lypmne, turning right to Aldington.
St Martin sits next to a large and busy farm, though its tower does just that, and is visible for miles, and is a waymarker when travelling between Folkestone and Ashford.
The church is rarely open, at least for casual visitors, so this was a chance to redo shots taken eight years ago.
This was the first of 907 shots taken through the day, and most of which you will be seeing in the next few weeks as I edit and post them.
So, after going round and getting dozens of shots, we walk back to the car through the churchyard, all gold and green as the seasons think about changing.
We retrace our steps to the main road, then back east to Lympne, past the animal park and along the narrow main street to the entrance to the castle, where the church sits beside, perched on the edge of the down, overlooking the Romney Marsh.
Don't park her, or here, said the signs, so I left the car in the castle car park, hoping it wouldn't get clamped, then walk to the lychgate and to the church, a huge barn of a place made much bigger when the additional west nave, if that's the right word, was added.
There's a spiral staircase leading to the bellringing platform in the tower, other than that, its a fine, tidy and a church full of interest.
I bid the wardens farewell, as we walk back to the car and then drive the short distance back to the A20, turning west to pass under the motorway that now bisects the village of Sellindge, going past the two new huge housing developments which have sprung up since I was last here, and right on the edge of the village is St Mary.
St Mary is rarely open, I had tried a few weeks back, battling traffic each way to find it locked.
But it was taking part in Ride and Stride, so I had high hoped.
Highlight is the art deco painted screen at the west end partioning the vestry from the Nave. But my last visit I only took 29 shots, I would try to snap more details, especially in the windows.
Back onto the motorway and a quick blast past the Channel Tunnel entrance, turning off and doubling back past Froghalt to Newington, a church I had been to twice in the last month hoping it would be open.
But wasn't.
The warden told me she was just leaving as she had a plasterer coming round to her house.
Bish, bash bosh.
But told me to help myself to juice or coffee, tea of cakes.
I passed.
Not much I had missed on previous visits, but I snapped details of the windows as before.
In and out in under ten minutes.
Back to Dover then, for a quick stop at St Edmund's Chapel, I last visited about a decade ago.
It is the only English Church dedicated to one English saint consecrated by a different English saint.
It is a small stone building, that during the 20th century was a smithy and a tool store before being restored to how we see it today.
Such chapels were once quite common, but St Edmunds is one of the few that remain. Quite a few visitors were there, thanks to the half dozen volunteers outside handing out badges, and the large amount of colourful bunting.
Off then to the area of town called Charlton. Hidden away is a large Victorian parish church, visible really is just the east wall of the Chancel from the main road, but the Ride and Stride webpage did say it would be open, so we went to look.
And it was indeed open, and inside we received a warm welcome.
The church is on a grand scale, seats 700 easily, and has a fine collection of period stained glass which cast the cool interior win a rainbow of colours.
Just along Maison Dieu is another fine looking church, and one designed by a Pugin. St Paul's, sits a little back from the main road, its easily passed and not noticed.
We parked opposite, and waked over to find that the porch was open, and manned by two volunteers, but the church itself was locked. I made do with taking a shot through the glass.
"Would you like to go inside, I have a key".
The magic words.
So, we walked round to a side door, a key was produced and the door swung open.
The church was full of light, mostly purple from the rose window in the west end of the church.
It was explained that the roof is fairly new, from the 80s, after an arson attack.
The windows in the aisles are good, so I photograph them all.
I dropped Jools back home as the day was now so unbearably hot and humid, I stopped for a pint of cold squash and a snack of picnic sized pork pies, and then back out into the furnace to Ripple which again should be open.
I was greeted with a huge swarm of newly emerged Ivy Bees that were feeding on the vegetation of the churchyard, and in doing alarming the two ladies inside the church who feared of being stung. I told them not to worry and their worries were indeed eased.
Not much I had missed before, but again details in the windows and wall carvings were recorded before I stepped back outside and pondered how to avoid the roadworks on the main road into Deal.
Instead of doubling back to the main road, I carried on along narrow and winding lanes until I saw signs for Great Mongeham, which I knew was very near to St Leonard in Deal, where is where I wanted to, but I had missed out on the other two churches in Walmer, but I could sort that out after visiting St Leonard.
After finding a place to park, I walked in and was greeted by three wardens in the porch, and although they didn't mind me taking shots, the gentleman did watch over me the whole time I was there.
St Leonard is a huge and sprawling church, the ancinet church greatly enlarged by a new Nave doubling, if not tripling the width of the church, and with a gallery too. As benefitting a church with a strong link to the Royal Navy, the walls are covered in memorials to various Naval officers and their wives, large number of hatchings too.
I had snapped it with wide angle lens before, so again concentrated on the details. Of which there were many.
I walked back outside, and the heat struck like walking into an oven. I checked the list and struck a couple off the list, and so next up was the last new church, at least for interior shots: Sacred Heart, Walmer.
Sacred Heart stands beside the main road, its tower straddles the footpath beside the road. A set of steps lead to the church itself, and I have never seen it open.
But it was due to be.
So, I parked round the corner, walked tot he main road, under the tower and up the steps, where six wardens were waiting, and I had my own guide to show me round.
The church is all that is left of a larger convent complex, that could have been even larger had the money not run out. The rest was demolished in 1982, and the church is all that is left.
And even what's left is a shadow of what it used to be, with the Pugin Altar not put back in due to damp, and at the west end, the gallery taken down and what was left, simplified.
Another warm welcome here too, and as always, very thankful to all who volunteer to make Ride and Stride and the Heritage Weekend possible.
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WALMER
860/0/10022 DOVER ROAD 04-OCT-01 Church of the Sacred Heart
II
Roman Catholic church, remaining part of a convent. Designed in 1881 in Gothic style by Peter Paul Pugin and Cuthbert Pugin and foundation stone laid in that year but not completed until 1890 and tower not until 1897. This is the only remaining part of the Convent of the Visitation, built by an order of nuns founded in France in 1610, of which the remaining buildings were demolished in 1982. EXTERIOR: Built of stock brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Comprises vestibule higher than the rest of the church, three bay nave and three bay chancel in one range, south transept, south west tower and west porch. West front has a gable with stone coping, cross-shaped saddlestone and kneelers. Triple lancet window. Brick porch with large arch with dripmould, double doors and steps to street. Tower in three stages with slate pyramidal roof with metal cross-shaped finial. Stone fretted balustrading with gargoyle waterspouts and machicolations. Top or bell stage has two trefoil openings with wooden louvres. Central stage has stone niche with crocket and statue of the Virgin with Child flanked by trefoil lancets. Buttresses. Through archway to lowest stage. South side has three lancets separated by buttresses and a gabled transept with kneelers and rose window. North side has two lancets and the nuns choir was originally attached here. East front has gable with cross-shaped saddlestone and kneelers and triple lancet window with trefoil heads, the centre taller . INTERIOR: Bell tower has bell of 1757 made by Chris. Aug. Becker in Hildesheim in 1757. Vestibule has wooden roof and screen with three lancets. Nave has arch-braced roof supported on stone corbels and five stained glass windows depicting the Good Shepherd, Queen conceived without sin, St Michael and the Two Labourers in the Vineyard, Tobias and the Angel and an unknown bishop saint. Seven rows of pews survive and origiinal tiled floor. South window has rose window with four Christ in Majesty together with St Francis de Sales and St Jane Frances de Chantal, founder and Foundress of the Order of the Visitation. Original altar with four marble colonnettes and three panels depicting Sacred Heart flanked by Angels, carved stone reredos with six trefoil-headed marble panels and marble feature with brass cupboard containing the Host with elaborate octagonal canopy with marble columns and stone gables with angels rising from the bases. HISTORY: Only remaining part of the convent of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. Originally founded in France in 1610 a Polish branch were expelled in 1865, first to Germany and then Walmer in 1875 where they bought a house called Roselands and gradually built a convent and chapel. All the other convent buildings were demolished in 1982.
[Roger Homan "The Victorian Churches of Kent" P99.]
Listing NGR: TR3689350150
I should have woken up this morning at the Radisson Blu in Arhus, but due to "reasons", that got cancelled, which meant I was home for Heritage Weekend, which as you can imagine, I was very upset about.
The day was to be a mix of the familiar and new, with revisits to some I had not been to in a decade.
It is hotter than ever, and now added to which is a haze caused by the sand blown up from the Sahara, which makes to look and feel like there are wildfires burning nearby. Anything more than a mile away is lost in a brown haze, and there being no wind to blow it away.
We went to Tesco, obviously, did some gathering and pushing the week and feeble out of the way, then rushed to pay and leave. Getting back home to have breakfast and be all tidied away for just gone nine when we left for a hard day's chuchcrawling.
Avoiding the port is obvious, even if the traffic radar said it was delay free, best not to take a risk in getting caught up in traffic that can last for days.
And traffic was heavy on the road to Folkestone and the motorway, but we soo turned off onto the A20 to Lypmne, turning right to Aldington.
St Martin sits next to a large and busy farm, though its tower does just that, and is visible for miles, and is a waymarker when travelling between Folkestone and Ashford.
The church is rarely open, at least for casual visitors, so this was a chance to redo shots taken eight years ago.
This was the first of 907 shots taken through the day, and most of which you will be seeing in the next few weeks as I edit and post them.
So, after going round and getting dozens of shots, we walk back to the car through the churchyard, all gold and green as the seasons think about changing.
We retrace our steps to the main road, then back east to Lympne, past the animal park and along the narrow main street to the entrance to the castle, where the church sits beside, perched on the edge of the down, overlooking the Romney Marsh.
Don't park her, or here, said the signs, so I left the car in the castle car park, hoping it wouldn't get clamped, then walk to the lychgate and to the church, a huge barn of a place made much bigger when the additional west nave, if that's the right word, was added.
There's a spiral staircase leading to the bellringing platform in the tower, other than that, its a fine, tidy and a church full of interest.
I bid the wardens farewell, as we walk back to the car and then drive the short distance back to the A20, turning west to pass under the motorway that now bisects the village of Sellindge, going past the two new huge housing developments which have sprung up since I was last here, and right on the edge of the village is St Mary.
St Mary is rarely open, I had tried a few weeks back, battling traffic each way to find it locked.
But it was taking part in Ride and Stride, so I had high hoped.
Highlight is the art deco painted screen at the west end partioning the vestry from the Nave. But my last visit I only took 29 shots, I would try to snap more details, especially in the windows.
Back onto the motorway and a quick blast past the Channel Tunnel entrance, turning off and doubling back past Froghalt to Newington, a church I had been to twice in the last month hoping it would be open.
But wasn't.
The warden told me she was just leaving as she had a plasterer coming round to her house.
Bish, bash bosh.
But told me to help myself to juice or coffee, tea of cakes.
I passed.
Not much I had missed on previous visits, but I snapped details of the windows as before.
In and out in under ten minutes.
Back to Dover then, for a quick stop at St Edmund's Chapel, I last visited about a decade ago.
It is the only English Church dedicated to one English saint consecrated by a different English saint.
It is a small stone building, that during the 20th century was a smithy and a tool store before being restored to how we see it today.
Such chapels were once quite common, but St Edmunds is one of the few that remain. Quite a few visitors were there, thanks to the half dozen volunteers outside handing out badges, and the large amount of colourful bunting.
Off then to the area of town called Charlton. Hidden away is a large Victorian parish church, visible really is just the east wall of the Chancel from the main road, but the Ride and Stride webpage did say it would be open, so we went to look.
And it was indeed open, and inside we received a warm welcome.
The church is on a grand scale, seats 700 easily, and has a fine collection of period stained glass which cast the cool interior win a rainbow of colours.
Just along Maison Dieu is another fine looking church, and one designed by a Pugin. St Paul's, sits a little back from the main road, its easily passed and not noticed.
We parked opposite, and waked over to find that the porch was open, and manned by two volunteers, but the church itself was locked. I made do with taking a shot through the glass.
"Would you like to go inside, I have a key".
The magic words.
So, we walked round to a side door, a key was produced and the door swung open.
The church was full of light, mostly purple from the rose window in the west end of the church.
It was explained that the roof is fairly new, from the 80s, after an arson attack.
The windows in the aisles are good, so I photograph them all.
I dropped Jools back home as the day was now so unbearably hot and humid, I stopped for a pint of cold squash and a snack of picnic sized pork pies, and then back out into the furnace to Ripple which again should be open.
I was greeted with a huge swarm of newly emerged Ivy Bees that were feeding on the vegetation of the churchyard, and in doing alarming the two ladies inside the church who feared of being stung. I told them not to worry and their worries were indeed eased.
Not much I had missed before, but again details in the windows and wall carvings were recorded before I stepped back outside and pondered how to avoid the roadworks on the main road into Deal.
Instead of doubling back to the main road, I carried on along narrow and winding lanes until I saw signs for Great Mongeham, which I knew was very near to St Leonard in Deal, where is where I wanted to, but I had missed out on the other two churches in Walmer, but I could sort that out after visiting St Leonard.
After finding a place to park, I walked in and was greeted by three wardens in the porch, and although they didn't mind me taking shots, the gentleman did watch over me the whole time I was there.
St Leonard is a huge and sprawling church, the ancinet church greatly enlarged by a new Nave doubling, if not tripling the width of the church, and with a gallery too. As benefitting a church with a strong link to the Royal Navy, the walls are covered in memorials to various Naval officers and their wives, large number of hatchings too.
I had snapped it with wide angle lens before, so again concentrated on the details. Of which there were many.
I walked back outside, and the heat struck like walking into an oven. I checked the list and struck a couple off the list, and so next up was the last new church, at least for interior shots: Sacred Heart, Walmer.
Sacred Heart stands beside the main road, its tower straddles the footpath beside the road. A set of steps lead to the church itself, and I have never seen it open.
But it was due to be.
So, I parked round the corner, walked tot he main road, under the tower and up the steps, where six wardens were waiting, and I had my own guide to show me round.
The church is all that is left of a larger convent complex, that could have been even larger had the money not run out. The rest was demolished in 1982, and the church is all that is left.
And even what's left is a shadow of what it used to be, with the Pugin Altar not put back in due to damp, and at the west end, the gallery taken down and what was left, simplified.
Another warm welcome here too, and as always, very thankful to all who volunteer to make Ride and Stride and the Heritage Weekend possible.
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860/0/10022 DOVER ROAD 04-OCT-01 Church of the Sacred Heart
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Roman Catholic church, remaining part of a convent. Designed in 1881 in Gothic style by Peter Paul Pugin and Cuthbert Pugin and foundation stone laid in that year but not completed until 1890 and tower not until 1897. This is the only remaining part of the Convent of the Visitation, built by an order of nuns founded in France in 1610, of which the remaining buildings were demolished in 1982. EXTERIOR: Built of stock brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Comprises vestibule higher than the rest of the church, three bay nave and three bay chancel in one range, south transept, south west tower and west porch. West front has a gable with stone coping, cross-shaped saddlestone and kneelers. Triple lancet window. Brick porch with large arch with dripmould, double doors and steps to street. Tower in three stages with slate pyramidal roof with metal cross-shaped finial. Stone fretted balustrading with gargoyle waterspouts and machicolations. Top or bell stage has two trefoil openings with wooden louvres. Central stage has stone niche with crocket and statue of the Virgin with Child flanked by trefoil lancets. Buttresses. Through archway to lowest stage. South side has three lancets separated by buttresses and a gabled transept with kneelers and rose window. North side has two lancets and the nuns choir was originally attached here. East front has gable with cross-shaped saddlestone and kneelers and triple lancet window with trefoil heads, the centre taller . INTERIOR: Bell tower has bell of 1757 made by Chris. Aug. Becker in Hildesheim in 1757. Vestibule has wooden roof and screen with three lancets. Nave has arch-braced roof supported on stone corbels and five stained glass windows depicting the Good Shepherd, Queen conceived without sin, St Michael and the Two Labourers in the Vineyard, Tobias and the Angel and an unknown bishop saint. Seven rows of pews survive and origiinal tiled floor. South window has rose window with four Christ in Majesty together with St Francis de Sales and St Jane Frances de Chantal, founder and Foundress of the Order of the Visitation. Original altar with four marble colonnettes and three panels depicting Sacred Heart flanked by Angels, carved stone reredos with six trefoil-headed marble panels and marble feature with brass cupboard containing the Host with elaborate octagonal canopy with marble columns and stone gables with angels rising from the bases. HISTORY: Only remaining part of the convent of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. Originally founded in France in 1610 a Polish branch were expelled in 1865, first to Germany and then Walmer in 1875 where they bought a house called Roselands and gradually built a convent and chapel. All the other convent buildings were demolished in 1982.
[Roger Homan "The Victorian Churches of Kent" P99.]
Listing NGR: TR3689350150
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
At Sacred Heart University, former NPR Correspondent Corey Flintoff speaks in the Martire Forum on October 6, 2016. The talk, titled âResurgent Russia,â was moderated by WSHUâs Ebong Udoma. Photo by Mark F. Conrad
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
At Sacred Heart University, former NPR Correspondent Corey Flintoff speaks in the Martire Forum on October 6, 2016. The talk, titled âResurgent Russia,â was moderated by WSHUâs Ebong Udoma. Photo by Mark F. Conrad
At Sacred Heart University, former NPR Correspondent Corey Flintoff speaks in the Martire Forum on October 6, 2016. The talk, titled âResurgent Russia,â was moderated by WSHUâs Ebong Udoma. Photo by Mark F. Conrad
At Sacred Heart University, former NPR Correspondent Corey Flintoff speaks in the Martire Forum on October 6, 2016. The talk, titled âResurgent Russia,â was moderated by WSHUâs Ebong Udoma. Photo by Mark F. Conrad
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
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Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
A woman stands before a cross at the earthquake damaged Sacred Heart church during a national day of mourning in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Thousands of people gathered one month after the deadly magnitude-7 quake that left the Caribbean country struggling for survival. (AP Photo/ Rodrigo Abd)
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
Serve2Cure 2014 at Sandestin Tennis Center benefiting Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast's Breast Cancer Fund
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