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From Upper Hardres, it should be a five minute drive through Bossingham to St Mary.
There is even a road marked, though once past the church it seems to become a track, and from the road south of Bossingham, seems to lead through a farmyard.
So, I had to drive to Stelling village, past the pub and shop, out onto Stone Street, from which you can see the tower of St Mary, and then turn right and right again down narrower lanes until you are on the paved part of the road that leads just south of Bossingham.
But the journey is worth it, as Stelling is somewhat remarkable. A remarkable survivor.
In the 18th century, it was reordered to become nonconformist, with the triple decked pulpit on the north wall and the box pews facing north rather than east. The glass was removed and taken to Upper Hardres.
This did happen elsewhere, but what is unusual is that it was not changed in the 19th century, so what we have now is an 18th century nonconformist church, untouched. Plain, unadorned.
Sad for the church, but something of great interest and rarity.
I was last here in 2016 when I came to road test my new Canon wide angle lens, so this was to rephotograph details and see if I could find the organ, as someone had asked me about it.
The organ, I can confirm, is no longer there.
But a fine church from the outside, and inside all light and pure simplicity.
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St Mary Stelling dates from the 13th Century, although a Church on this site is noted in the Domesday Book and the date of consecration of Stelling Church is reputed to be 1130. The Church started its life as an outlying chapel, firstly to the basilica at Lyminge, and after the Norman invasion, to nearby Hardres. In 1988 The Conservation Foundation, of which Professor David Bellamy is a member, aged one of the yew trees in the churchyard as 1,500 years old; the implication of this, together with the proximity of St Mary’s to the Roman road linking Canterbury to the Port of Lympne, is that this was an early Christian site dating from the Roman occupation.
St Mary Stelling is, on the face of it, a typical east Kent rural church, constructed in flint with stone quoins and comprising a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch and tower. It seats some 120 people, and is located approximately half a mile from the village of Stelling Minnis, a rural community of about 1000 people.
The Church, however, is unique and of exceptional importance, because in 1790 it was re-ordered in a non-conformist style. This involved placing the pulpit midway along the north wall of the nave (opposite the south aisle), and rearranging the box pews. The pulpit itself is a three-decker pulpit with a sounding board, which is understood to be unique in an Anglican church in east Kent. At the same time, a gallery was installed above the south aisle facing the pulpit, and to provide a view of the pulpit the south arcade was removed and replaced by a single large arch.
Importantly, this re-ordering was not subsequently altered by 19th Century restorers, and we have today a unique non-conformist modification of a medieval church.
After the Civil War, non-conformism in this area, though sparsely populated, became rife; that this non-conformism should succeed in invading the established church of St Mary is quite remarkable. These changes reflected a strong non-conformist element in the local community which can also be illustrated in the fact that three Methodist Chapels were built within a mile of the Church during the next 100 years. The Church is an outstanding historical record for all to see of social and religious developments in this corner of Kent.
A further unusual feature of St Mary Stelling was revealed in 1999 when the nave ceiling was removed following damage. The roof construction was found to be based on King posts and not Crown posts as is the norm for churches of this age and style in this area. The Canterbury Archaeological Trust examined and recorded the structure before the ceiling was replaced, and although there is little to be seen to indicate its unusual character, our knowledge of this roof construction adds yet more interest to the building and its history. Archaeological inspections following the removal of the historic box pews undertaken as part of the current repair works have added to St Mary’s history and mystery. Indeed, the Kent Archaeological Society, which is the oldest and most respected local historical society, recently visited and referred in their Journal to St Mary’s Stelling as “Kent’s most extraordinary parish church”.
The Quinquennial inspection of November 2006 identified the need for essential major repairs to the historic box pew foundations, upgrading of the electrical installation, the provision of a lightning conductor, and other repairs to the fabric of the building – stonework, window cills, replacement of some gutters & down-pipes, gallery repairs, some re-plastering, and other general repairs. Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, the local community, and several grant bodies, over £85,000 was raised, and these essential major repairs were completed in July 2009, the medieval bells have been recommissioned, and internal redecoration has been carried out.
We pray that St Mary Stelling will be not just a building, but a living beacon for the worship of Christ in our local community. We seek to hand on to succeeding generations not only the building, but the living faith symbolised by it.
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STELLING
IS the next parish northward from Liminge, being written in Domesday, Stellinges. The greatest part of it, in which the church stands, is in this hundred of Loning borough, and the rest of it is in the hundred of Stowting.
Stelling is an obscure parish, lying close on the east side of the Stone-street way, just above or southward of Lower Hardres, in a wild hilly country. It is mostly situated on high ground, and is exceeding healthy. The soil is but barren, consisting of an unfertile red earth, intermixed with quantities of slints. On the north and east sides it is covered with woods. The heath called Stelling-minnis, comprehends most of the parish, extending across it, and a considerable way beyond, into the parishes of Liminge and Eleham, being in the whole more than two miles in length, though it is of a very different breadth at different parts of it. It is along the whole of it interspersed with houses and cottages, many of which are built on the middle of it, with fields and orchards taken out of it and inclosed round them, which form altogether an uncommon and not unpleasant scene, the inhabitants of them being as rude and wild as the country they live in. These dwellings on the minnis may be said to form the village of Stelling, for there is no other. A little beyond the minnis stands the church, on an hill, and a little further the court-lodge, at the north-west boundary of the parish.
There are two fairs held annually, one on Ascensionday, the other on Alhollan-day, Nov. 1, now, by alteration of the stile, on Nov. 12, yearly, on the minnis, for horses, cattle, and pedlary.
At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, Stelling was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, the king's half-brother, under the general title of whole lands it is entered in it as-follows:
The same bishop (of Baieux) holds in demesne Stellinges. It was taxed at one yoke. The arable land is one carucate and an half. In demesne there is nothing, except one borderer. There is a church. Wood for the pannage of two bags. In the time of king Edward the Confesser, it was worth sixty sbillings, and afterwards and now forty shillings. Alret held it of king Edward.
Four years after the taking of this survey the bishop was disgraced, and his estates were consiscated to the crown; but how this manor passed from it afterwards, I have not found, nor further concerning it, till it was become part of the possessions of the family of Haut, one of whom, William de Haut, was possessed of it in the 1st year of king Edward I and resided at Wadenhall, in the adjoining parish of Waltham; and in his descendants it continued till the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, when William Haut, esq. of Bishopsborne, conveyed it to Humphry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, whose grandson Edward, duke of Buckingham, being attainted and beheaded anno 13 Henry VIII. this manor, with the rest of his estates, came to the crown, (fn. 1) where it lay till the 1st and 2d of Philip and Mary, when the queen granted it to Edw. Fynes, lord Clinton, who about the end of that reign conveyed it to Mr. Henry Herdson, whose grandson Mr. Francis Herdson alienated it to his uncle Mr. John Herdson, about the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, and he deceasing, s.p. gave it by will to his nephew Sir Basill Dixwell, knight and baronet, afterwards of Terlingham, who likewise dying s.p. in 1641, Mark Dixwell, esq. his nephew, became his heir, but succeeded only to his estates, for his title became extinct. His son Sir Basill Dixwell, bart.of Brome, so created in 1660, died possessed of it in king Charles II.'s reign. (fn. 2) Soon after which it was alienated by his heirs to Sir Thomas Hardres, bart. of Hardrescourt, and his grandson Sir William Hardres, bart. dying s.p. in 1764, devised it by will to his widow Frances, (third daughter and coheir of Thomas Corbet, of Salop), on whose death intestate in 1783 it became vested in her heirs, who were her four sisters or their representatives, viz. the Rev. James-Charles Beckingham, son of Katherine her sister, second wife of Stephen Beckingham, esq. who is possessed of one fourth part of it; Elizabeth her sister, wife of Thomas Denward, clerk, deceased, who is possessed of another fourth part of it; Ignatius Geohegan, esq. of London, in right of his wife Antonina, her sister, and Ignatius Geohegan, their son, all three since deceased; when by the death of the latter his fourth part devolved to his sister, since married to the baron Montesquieu; and Wm. Hougham, jun. esq. of Bartonplace, only son of her sister Hannah deceased, late wife of Wm. Hougham, esq. of Barton, who is possessed of the remaining fourth part of it in undivided shares.
The manor of Holyrood, alias Fryerne Park, lies in the eastern part of this parish, and in the book of aid, anno 20 Edward III. it is said to have been held by the abbot of Langdon, by knight's service, which the heirs of simon de Holte before held in Holyrode of the heirs of William de Auberville. This manor continued in the possession of the monastery till the dissolution of it in the reign of king Henry VIII. when it came into the hands of the crown, whence anno 29 Henry VIII. it was granted to the archbishop, who exchanged it again with the crown, (fn. 3) whence it was granted to Heyman, who sold it to Hewytt. The demesnes called the Park, afterwards became the property of John Whitfield, esq. of Canterbury, and are now of Wm. Philpot, gent. of Sandwich, but the manor belongs to the right hon. George-Augustus, earl of Guildford.
There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly relieved are about fifteen, casually ten.
Stelling is within the Eceelstastical Jurdisction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.
¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is large and handsome, consisting of two isles and one chancel, having a low square tower at the north-west corner of it. There are exceeding good remains of painted glass in this church, especially in the east window of the south isle, in which there are many figures well preserved, with curious canopies and ornaments about them, very little of it having been destroyed. At bottom are two shields of arms, one, Azure, semee of cross croslects, or, a lion ermine, over all a fess; gules; the other, Gules, a lion rampant, ermine, over it a chevron, or. In the church-yard are three fine yew-trees, of a remarkable large size.
The church of Stelling has always been esteemed as a chapel to the church of Upper Hardres, the rector of which is inducted to that rectory, with the chapel of Stelling annexed to it.
It is included in the valuation of that rectory in the king's books. In 1588 here were communicants ninety-two, and in 1640, ninety.
the inside walls of this bronzeage shed are made wind-proof with a mixture of sand, clay water and straw
There are several intersting looking houses around the Neumarkt (New Market) in Dresden. I just took pictures of those I liked most.
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Rund um den Neumarkt gibt es eine Fülle von restaurierten (und teils etwas überladen wirkenden) Häusern. Ich weiß nicht wirklich, was sich alles hinter diesen Fassaden verbirgt, aber ich mochte einfach, wie sie aussahen.
Alles anklickbar.
My electrician is in the process of re-wiring my whole house.
I caught sight of this today, and thought it looked exciting.
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Andrew McKay came all the way down from Quebec Province to help with this project. His plaster bag technique proved to be superior to the hawk and trowel method because it frees up both his hands and he can load up with about 50 lbs of mix on his belt. Andrew is a true innovator in alternative building methods and had much to share.
Brett putting the finishing touches to our lime plaster with a soft rounded plastic float and water spray, after a long day plastering this large and complicated wall. The detailing work around the tall, narrow windows was extremely fiddly and tiring, but we are happy with the finish. It's as good as two ordinary people working alone can make it.
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402 S. Tulpehocken,
Reading, PA 19601
Brett commencing work on the final lime plaster layer on the north wall of the master bedroom. The wall top is the traditional starting point. The iPod has become a good friend and sanity saver to both of us.