Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

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Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

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HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Some large bulbs of Hippeastrum are sold in spring without the indication of a well defined fantasy name. This splendid flowers have arisen from a rather low cost cultivar, described simply with the words 'Gold Medal Collection Lilla'. Flower ø : 22 cm (8.8'').

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Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

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Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

They were in a splendid flower arrangement given to my wife for her birthday, but are seriously whiffy so have been exiled to the garden.

Part 9: From Schumen and Madara to Veliko Tarnovo

5th of May 2004•10:19 hours

This time I once hung out like a real tourist and had delivered myself to the taxi's. Why should I take the taxi if you can also walk? I was a bit overwhelmed that my train did not stop in Madara, whereas I wanted to see the caves of Madara and the rocks with the horseman. Thus I got off at the next trainstop in Schumen and started to negotiate with a taxi driver, whom seemed sympathetic to me. For how much money can you bring me to Madara and back? I had only two hours of time, but the taxi drove with a motorway speed along the small roads straight to the caves. So I had enough time left over not only to climb the mount, but also to explore the old fort and the cave houses. On the way back he proposed to use the remaining time to show me a large citadel at Schumen. It became a lightspeed fast sightseeing tour, along a second citadel and the Tumbul mosque, the oldest mosque of Bulgaria, which still is visited a lot by the Turkish minority. He also brought me to a monument for the honour of the Founders of the Bulgarian State on top of a mount. In the train I got problems with the conductor because I had got off halfway and travelled with another train further, which is not accepted. I acted like the silly Dutch tourist and a boy in the compartiment helped me out by saying that I had been wrong informed.

Arriving in Veliko Tarnovo, a man asks me right away if I was looking for a place to sleep. I was still the lazy tourist and had myself brought to the private pension. Then he wants to exchange old Bulgarian money coins for Euro coins. Later I understand that I have paid far too much and that this man takes half of the money for provision. Anyway I am not in the mood to join him into the city centre to drink something in a cafe but I prefer to go just on my own. First I visit the Tsarevets Hill, then I walk through the hilly old centre and drink something on the terrace of Pepy's bar. In another nice bar, Mosquito, everyone is sociably talking to each other and I sit near the bar in my own. Come on Tijs: or you just keep sitting here for over an hour or you put on a pair of naughty shoes. I make contact to a couple of some young people and ask them if I can come and sit next to them. It becomes a sociable evening with lots of beer, a little joint and a neighbouring discotheque where we keep swinging on regular disco-music until early in the morning.

6th of May 2004•7:24 hours

Yesterday I decided to take a day of rest for myself. Victor, the man who had picked up me from the station, stood on the pavement in the morning and asked me if he could offer me an excursion. That was the last thing that I wanted to do. Instead, I just strolled through the narrow streets in the hilly centre and afterwards I passed the broader avenues in downtown to the station. I decided not to visit another city in Bulgaria and do the same ritual like searching for a place to sleep et cetera. I rather remained hanging out in Veliko Tarnovo to enjoy the surroundings of the town and take the night train in the evening straight to Istanbul. On the station I encountered Victor again, who wanted to help me with buying a train ticket and bringing my left luggage to the luggage depot. That was meant kind of him, but I just wanted to find out that by myself.

After eating I started hiking along the river. Soon I arrived in an unexpected beautiful village. However, there were no real hiking tracks anywhere. I tried a little path but that ended up on a waste dump. Another two more attempts, but each path ended up at some waste dump or left factory. Behind the green beauty of the vally, the whole area seemed to be actually one large dump place. Nevertheless I eventually found a little sheep path that went up the hill and ended up into the forest. The path went further up and the landscape became more and more rocky. Another path crossed mine and then I found a real hiking track with signs to the top of the mount. The forest had made place for some kind of mountain pastures, splendid flowers thrived on the mount slopes. The view on the low green mounts with rock edges is splendid. I follow the route further and get back in Veliko Tarnovo two hours later.

Before I go to the station I still have some time to dive into an internetcafe and eat a plate of farfalle in a pastarestaurant. On the station Victor comes to me. He starts to talk in German to me and claims that he is Victor's brother. I do not believe him because he looks exactly the same and he knows everything about me. He asks if he can get my left-over Bulgarian money from me before I will cross the border but I ignore him. I am astonished as the real Victor all of a sudden appears. So he nevertheless was really his brother! Eventually I give them some left over money for a cup of coffee. Once in the train I am the only person who goes searching for a sleeping compartiment. Most of the train passengers are happy with just a seat in a full part of the train. I have a whole compartiment for myself and the train chef indicates that he will arrange another trainticket for the Turkish part of the trip at the border. After reading for a while I fall asleep. A couple of times they wake me up for ticket control and later for passport control and buying a ticket for the remaining part of the trip. At the Turkish border we all have to leave the train and wait in a line to get a stamp in our passports. Once it is my turn, it appears that I first have to buy a visa in another building. Fortunately the train still does not leave. In the train they check me again. They say I must leave the train again, because on the visa a stamp needs to be put from the first counter, which closed down meanwhile. I run out of the train and tick on the window of the building. After begging, the man finally gives me a stamp and I can jump on the train just before it leaves. On the rhythm of the train I fall into a deep sleep, only waking up when the first suburbs of Istanbul catch my eye.

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Long long ago (well 2 years ago ) in a house by the sea

..... there lived a little brown lady and her Nan.

They spent many happy days together

and home was so calm and peaceful

Magic Nan made Jam Buns, Carolina Chicken and was one of the most special people to be around.

The little brown happy had sunshine in her tummy

as just before she had lived with her boyfriend

and after many happy years together

they decided to part

so Nan's home was home just until she could her perfect nest to live in.

The little brown lady slept in a bedroom covered in splendid flowers

that Grandy Ronnie had chosen many years ago.

Nan was not sure if she liked the flowers

but the little brown lady was happy to keep them

as every day she woke to have sunlight streaming in, hear the sea

and feel like she was in an enchanted garden.

In the bedroom was a large skinny cupboard.

It was an empty cupboard

as the room was so huge

and all the clutter that the brown lady possessed

was neatly tucked away in storage.

One day

the brown lady started to buy pretty little gifts to sell

and while they sat cosy without a future owner and a new home to go to

they were stored in the skinny cupboard.

Day by day

week by week

she bought and sold

and soon the cupboard was full as the more she sold, she was able to buy twice as much again.

Each evening she would sit for a wee while up in the enchanted bedroom

with the funny slippers on that Nan had made many years ago

and neatly pack parcels to be posted the very next morning.

When she was tired

she would go to bed

that was always so cosy and warm as her magical Nan

had popped a little bottle in there to sleep with and dream of buying more pretty things.

As the years went by they had special times

walking by the sea

talking

laughing

and sharing memories of years past.

When the little brown lady opened a drawer or a cupboard

she would find objects that triggered recollections of days out in an instant.

The London Zoo Key

the most precious

was taken by the brown lady (who was then a little brown girl) and her Nan every year when they visited the animals.

The key would be inserted into a box next to the cage

and the animal would tell you all about itself.

The little brown girl

would feel that she had the most special secret and the most precious key.

One day

the little brown lady found her perfect nest

and even though she was so happy in her new home

she returns to visit her Nan as often as possible.

When she visits

she always finds a little hot water bottle

hiding in a fresh cosy bed

and her dreams are so perfect and warm.

She is happy

Nan is happy

and they are the best of friends

together and apart

And the skinny cupboard ? .....

Now is holds a few of Nan's clothes

a few jigsaws

and some shoes

but it is still quite bare.

I wonder if it knows how important it was

in storing the beginnings of a dream

of holding possesions that now have new happy homes

and allowing a little brown lady to be exactly where she wants to be in her creative life.

The little brown lady buys more, sells more, and makes more pretty things

but she will never forget where it all begun.

Thank you to my magical Nan and the skinny cupboard.

♥ dommie ♥

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By Vasantha Rathnayaka Blog - Ancient Deegawapi

Ancient Deegawapi

Deegawapiya is one of the 16 places which has been blessed by the Buddha's presence. Buddha was invited to Kelaniya by Mani Akkika of Naga Tribe, ruler of the Kelaniya region on his second visit to Nagadeepa. On the 8th year of attaining nirvana Buddha decided to visit Sri Lanka for the third time specially to Kelaniya. During this visit he came to Deegavapi with 500 arhaths and spend time meditating.

According to the the Mahavansa, great chronicle of Sri Lanka, this stupa was built by king Saddhatissa (137-119 BC). According to the same the king has also donated a jacket decorated with gold lotus flowers and various gems to cover the stupa.

large number of stone flower pedestals of different sizes indicating the flourishing state of this complex in the ancient history. Since this location has been blessed by Buddha's presence, it is generally believed that this stupa is a "paribogika" stupa and no special relics has been enshrined. But historian venerable Ellawela Medananda thero believes that this stupa enshrines a nail relic of Buddha. An inscription on a gold foil unearthed during excavations discloses that King Kawanthissa (164-192) has done renovations to the stupa. With passage of time, this temple was neglected with the internal conflicts of the country. King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe ( 1747 - 1781) seeing the status of the temple carried out major renovations and handed it over to Rev. Bandigide Negrodha thero along with 1000 'amunu' (2000-2500 acres) of land in 1756. Two stone inscriptions by King Saddhasissa and King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe has been in existence at the Deegawapiya until last centaury but both of these have mysteriously disappeared now. But a copy of the Rajasinghe inscription which was made in 1845 exists today.

In 1916 a priest called Kohukumbure Revatha thero started searching for this stupa and he found some muslims carrying bricks in carts. When inquired, he was told that they were from a great brick mound deep in the jungle. He followed these cartsmen and found the Dageba in absolute ruins. He came back with few buddhists from colombo and started redeveloping this temple area and also managed to reclaim 250 acres of land back to the temple. By this time, Deegavapi area were dominated by Muslims who were given refuge in this area by King Senerath (1604 - 1635) when they were harassed in the coastal areas by the Portuguese. The king not only gave them refuge, but destroyed a portuguese fort at the port called "Deegavapi Thitha" for them to carry out their business activities freely. But in 1950 Kohukumbure Revatha thero was brutally murdered by a Muslim in the area.

{Moreover, he founded the Dighawapi-vihara together with the cetiya; for this cetiya he had a covering of

network made set with gems, and in every mesh thereof was hung a splendid flower of gold, large as a wagon-wheel, that he had commanded them to fashion. (In honour) of the eighty-four thousand sections of the dhamma the ruler commanded also eighty-four thousand offerings. When the king had thus accomplished many works of merit he was reborn, after his death, among the Tusita gods.}

How To Get There

Ampara is the nearest main town to Dighawapi. Take the Akkaraipatthu road from Ampara. It is about 18 km off Ampara town.

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Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

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Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

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HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Long long ago (well 2 years ago ) in a house by the sea

..... there lived a little brown lady and her Nan.

They spent many happy days together

and home was so calm and peaceful

Magic Nan made Jam Buns, Carolina Chicken and was one of the most special people to be around.

The little brown happy had sunshine in her tummy

as just before she had lived with her boyfriend

and after many happy years together

they decided to part

so Nan's home was home just until she could her perfect nest to live in.

The little brown lady slept in a bedroom covered in splendid flowers

that Grandy Ronnie had chosen many years ago.

Nan was not sure if she liked the flowers

but the little brown lady was happy to keep them

as every day she woke to have sunlight streaming in, hear the sea

and feel like she was in an enchanted garden.

In the bedroom was a large skinny cupboard.

It was an empty cupboard

as the room was so huge

and all the clutter that the brown lady possessed

was neatly tucked away in storage.

One day

the brown lady started to buy pretty little gifts to sell

and while they sat cosy without a future owner and a new home to go to

they were stored in the skinny cupboard.

Day by day

week by week

she bought and sold

and soon the cupboard was full as the more she sold, she was able to buy twice as much again.

Each evening she would sit for a wee while up in the enchanted bedroom

with the funny slippers on that Nan had made many years ago

and neatly pack parcels to be posted the very next morning.

When she was tired

she would go to bed

that was always so cosy and warm as her magical Nan

had popped a little bottle in there to sleep with and dream of buying more pretty things.

As the years went by they had special times

walking by the sea

talking

laughing

and sharing memories of years past.

When the little brown lady opened a drawer or a cupboard

she would find objects that triggered recollections of days out in an instant.

The London Zoo Key

the most precious

was taken by the brown lady (who was then a little brown girl) and her Nan every year when they visited the animals.

The key would be inserted into a box next to the cage

and the animal would tell you all about itself.

The little brown girl

would feel that she had the most special secret and the most precious key.

One day

the little brown lady found her perfect nest

and even though she was so happy in her new home

she returns to visit her Nan as often as possible.

When she visits

she always finds a little hot water bottle

hiding in a fresh cosy bed

and her dreams are so perfect and warm.

She is happy

Nan is happy

and they are the best of friends

together and apart

And the skinny cupboard ? .....

Now is holds a few of Nan's clothes

a few jigsaws

and some shoes

but it is still quite bare.

I wonder if it knows how important it was

in storing the beginnings of a dream

of holding possesions that now have new happy homes

and allowing a little brown lady to be exactly where she wants to be in her creative life.

The little brown lady buys more, sells more, and makes more pretty things

but she will never forget where it all begun.

Thank you to my magical Nan and the skinny cupboard.

♥ dommie ♥

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Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

-------------------------------------------

Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

-------------------------------------------

HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

-------------------------------------------

Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

-------------------------------------------

HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

-------------------------------------------

Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

-------------------------------------------

HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

-------------------------------------------

Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

-------------------------------------------

HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

-------------------------------------------

Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

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HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

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Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

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HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

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By Vasantha Rathnayaka Blog - Ancient Deegawapi

Ancient Deegawapi

Deegawapiya is one of the 16 places which has been blessed by the Buddha's presence. Buddha was invited to Kelaniya by Mani Akkika of Naga Tribe, ruler of the Kelaniya region on his second visit to Nagadeepa. On the 8th year of attaining nirvana Buddha decided to visit Sri Lanka for the third time specially to Kelaniya. During this visit he came to Deegavapi with 500 arhaths and spend time meditating.

According to the the Mahavansa, great chronicle of Sri Lanka, this stupa was built by king Saddhatissa (137-119 BC). According to the same the king has also donated a jacket decorated with gold lotus flowers and various gems to cover the stupa.

large number of stone flower pedestals of different sizes indicating the flourishing state of this complex in the ancient history. Since this location has been blessed by Buddha's presence, it is generally believed that this stupa is a "paribogika" stupa and no special relics has been enshrined. But historian venerable Ellawela Medananda thero believes that this stupa enshrines a nail relic of Buddha. An inscription on a gold foil unearthed during excavations discloses that King Kawanthissa (164-192) has done renovations to the stupa. With passage of time, this temple was neglected with the internal conflicts of the country. King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe ( 1747 - 1781) seeing the status of the temple carried out major renovations and handed it over to Rev. Bandigide Negrodha thero along with 1000 'amunu' (2000-2500 acres) of land in 1756. Two stone inscriptions by King Saddhasissa and King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe has been in existence at the Deegawapiya until last centaury but both of these have mysteriously disappeared now. But a copy of the Rajasinghe inscription which was made in 1845 exists today.

In 1916 a priest called Kohukumbure Revatha thero started searching for this stupa and he found some muslims carrying bricks in carts. When inquired, he was told that they were from a great brick mound deep in the jungle. He followed these cartsmen and found the Dageba in absolute ruins. He came back with few buddhists from colombo and started redeveloping this temple area and also managed to reclaim 250 acres of land back to the temple. By this time, Deegavapi area were dominated by Muslims who were given refuge in this area by King Senerath (1604 - 1635) when they were harassed in the coastal areas by the Portuguese. The king not only gave them refuge, but destroyed a portuguese fort at the port called "Deegavapi Thitha" for them to carry out their business activities freely. But in 1950 Kohukumbure Revatha thero was brutally murdered by a Muslim in the area.

{Moreover, he founded the Dighawapi-vihara together with the cetiya; for this cetiya he had a covering of

network made set with gems, and in every mesh thereof was hung a splendid flower of gold, large as a wagon-wheel, that he had commanded them to fashion. (In honour) of the eighty-four thousand sections of the dhamma the ruler commanded also eighty-four thousand offerings. When the king had thus accomplished many works of merit he was reborn, after his death, among the Tusita gods.}

How To Get There

Ampara is the nearest main town to Dighawapi. Take the Akkaraipatthu road from Ampara. It is about 18 km off Ampara town.

ancientdeegavapi-ampara.blogspot.com/2011/04/ancient-deeg...

Spent a relaxed couple of hours at the National Botanic Garden of Wales with my beloved as an outing on Mothering Sunday. These are a few of the splendid flowers that we found.

Emblings BX56 XAH, BMC Falcon, in the centre of town with the 14.20 380 service from Wisbech.

I need to go back here to do a shot of something passing the lovely iron Pagoda, which is just visible behind the splendid flowers.

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Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

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Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

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HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Hartlip is another one of the many parishes that lay either side of the old A2 high road, and is somehow another one of the ones I missed during the last Heritage Weekend.

I discovered this in making a list of the churches I have yet to visit in Kent.

On a day when I visited and saw inside 5 churches. Hartlip was the first, and the sat nav took me through Stockbury, over the downs, then into a valley, back under the motorway until I came to the village, with the church set on the main street of the village.

It looked nice enough, and I hoped it would be open.

Carved pew ends are unusual for Kent, so to find unusual diamond shaped ones in the chancel was splendid.

Another heavily victorianised church, but well done, and a church full of light and colour. I disturbed a warden redoing the splendid flower arrangements, not for the only time that day....

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Q 86 SW HARTLIP THE STREET

(west side)

4/9 Church of St. Michael

24.1.67

GV I

Parish church. C13 to C15, tower repaired 1855, restored 1864-5

by R.C. Hussey. Flint, with rubble, and plain tiled roofs. Nave

with aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, south porch, west

tower with priests room. Three-stage west tower with string course

to parapet and 3 stage octagonal stair turret. C19 west doorway,

simple Perpendicular windows and belfry openings. Nave and aisles

under 1 roof, south aisle with 3 offset buttresses and C19

Perpendicular style windows. C14 doorway in south porch with

hollow chamfered, roll moulded arch and hood mould with carved head

stops. South chapel with two C19 lancets and double lancet east

window; north chapel identical. East window C19 3 light curvilinear,

the 3 east chancels separately roofed. North aisle with 3 three-

light Perpendicular windows and hollow-chamfered doorway. North

west lean-to priest's or anchorite's room with steps down to basement

doorway, and restored chimney. Interior: nave with hollow chamfered

tower arch, and 3 bay arcade to aisles with octagonal piers, double

hollow chamfered arches and panelled canted ceiling, the aisles with

lean-to roofs. C19 arches from aisles to chapels and chancel arch,

the north and south chapels largely rebuilt by Hussey, but with C13

plain chamfered arches on imposts into chancel. Late C12 wall arcad-

ing in the chancel, 2 full bays in north and south walls, and 1 bay

interrupted by the arches to chapels, attached shafts rising

from plinth, with stiff leaf and palmette carved capitals.

Reveals of lancet east window and north and south lancet windows

survive. Fittings: angle piscina in chancel, heavily restored,

but with late C12 shaft, square abacus and leaf-carved capital.

Reredos of 1908, the Last Supper carved in relief. Monument: in north

chapel, wall tablet,Mary Coppin, d. 1636. Black and white marble,

the plaque carried on an urn and angelic head, with corinthian columns

supporting a frieze and broken segmental pediment with achievement,

and 2 putti descending to the inscription. (See B.0.E. Kent II,

1983, 343-42).

Listing NGR: TQ8396564247

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101320011-church-of-st-micha...

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HARTLIP

¶IS the next parish south-eastward from Rainham. It is not so unhealthy a situation as Rainham, lying further from the marshes, the noxious vapours of which are intercepted, in some measure, by the intervening hills, it contains about one thousand and forty acres of land, besides one hundred and sixteen acres of wood. The London road runs along the northern side of it, where the soil is very gravelly, whence the ground rises up to the village, which is situated, as well as the church, on the west side of it, on high ground, surrounded by frequent orchards of apple and cherry trees, which renders the view of it from the London road very pleasing, though several of these plantations being worn out and decayed, have been grubbed up. Notwithstanding the gravelly soil still continues, there is some fertile land, the hedge-rows of which, and throughout this and the other parts of the parish before-mentioned, being filled with rows of tall spiring elms; above the village the soil becomes chalky, extending over a poor and barren country, very hilly and much covered with flints, having a great quantity of coppice woods, interspersed over it. In this part of the parish is a long tract of waste ground, called Queen-down, which was for many years a noted warren for rabbits, but it has been disused for some time past. In the north-east part of the parish, about half a mile from the London road, there is a good old mansion, situated in the midst of fruit grounds, called Paradise, having a large farm belonging to it. In queen Elizabeth's time it was the property of Rowland Searle, gent afterwards it came into the name of Pitt; the widow of admiral Temple West was lately possessed of it.

William Brooke, escheator of this county in the reign of James I. resided at Hartlip. He was the eldest son of Cranmer Brooke, esq. of Ashford, the grandson of Thomas, the second surviving son of John, lord Cobham.

In and about this and the adjoining parishes, many lands are called by the name of Dane, as Dane-field, Dane-crost, Danoway, and the like, which shews that nation to have formerly had much intercourse hereabout. In one of these, called Lower Dane-field, belonging to Maresbarrow-farm, at the south-west corner of it, and about a mile's distance south westward from the church of Hartlip, there were discovered about fifty years ago the ruins of a building, the top of which reached but even with the surface of the ground; a quantity of the earth within it was cleared away, in hopes, as usual, of finding hidden treasure. As it appears at present, the east end of it has been cleared of the earth, which filled it, about three feet deep, and thence gradually deeper, in length sixty feet, to the west end of it, where it is about ten feet deep. At each end of it, where the walls return as part of a square, they are plaistered over; in the narrow part, between these extremes, they are bare, and appear to be composed of large flint stones, laid regularly in rows; on the upper part, even with the surface of the ground, there are two rows of large Roman tiles, laid close together. They are of a very large size, and some of them are made with a rim at the end, to lap over the others. Great quantities of these tiles are scattered round about the place, and many foundations of buildings have been from time to time discovered in different parts of the adjoining grounds.

Charities.

MRS. MARY GIBBON, by her will in 1678, gave a house and six acres of land in Hartlip, of the value of about 12l. per annum, for the purpose of putting to school poor children inhabiting this parish, to be instructed in reading English; and, in case the estate should be more than sufficient for that purpose, then to put to school those inhabiting one of the adjoining parishes; and when such children should be able to read English so well as to read any chapter in the bible, then for them to have a bible bought and given to such child who should thereupon be taken from school. And she likewise charged it with the payment of 20s. yearly to the vicar of Hartlip. The land is now vested in Mr. William Danne, and the produce of it in trust, to be applied by the minister and churchwardens for the above purpose.

TWELVE BUSHELS of barley, one and a half of wheat, and 6s. 8d. in money, are yearly payable out of the parsonage of Hartlip to the poor of this parish, given by a person unknown.

The sum of 20s. is yearly payable out of a farm in this parish belonging to Richard Tylden, of Milsted, given likewise by a person unknown, and now vested in the churchwardens and overseers.

The number of poor constantly relieved are about seventeen; casually four.

HARTLIP is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower at the west end of it, in which hang five bells.

King Henry III. in his 9th year, gave the church of Hertlepe, with its appurtenances, to the prior of St. Andrew's, in Rochester.

Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1225, admitted the monks into the possession of this church, to be possessed by them to their own proper uses for ever: saving, nevertheles, a vicarage to be conferred on a proper person at their presentation, who should sustain the burthens of this church, reserving to him, the archbishop, the taxation of the vicarage. Which instrument was confirmed by John, prior, and the convent of the church of Canterbury. (fn. 3)

The church of Hartlip, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Rochester till the dissolution of it in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of it, surrendered up into the king's hands, who the next year settled it by his dotation-charter on his new-erected dean and chapter of Rochester, where the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage remain at this time.

In the 8th year of Richard II. the church of Hartlip was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 9l. 10s. 10d. and the yearly tenths at 19s. 1d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 18s. 8d.

¶In the survey of ecclesiastical benesices within the diocese of Rochester, taken by order of the state in 1649, it was returned, that the parsonage of Hartlip, late belonging to the late dean and chapter of Rochester, consisted of a parsonage-house, barn, yard, &c. and the tithe within the said parish, at the improved rent of sixty-seven pounds per annum, and sundry pieces of land, containing together twelve acres and one rood, of the yearly value, with the above, of 69l. 19s. 7d. which premises were let by the late dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Henry Barrow, at the yearly rent of nineteen pounds, and three couple of good capons, so there remained the clear rent of 50l. 7s. 7d. per annum, out of which lease the vicarage of Hartlip was excepted, worth forty-five pounds per annum. (fn. 4)

The parsonage is now seased out by the dean and chapter, but the advowson of the vicarage is reserved in their own hands.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp15-24

Long long ago (well 2 years ago ) in a house by the sea

..... there lived a little brown lady and her Nan.

They spent many happy days together

and home was so calm and peaceful

Magic Nan made Jam Buns, Carolina Chicken and was one of the most special people to be around.

The little brown happy had sunshine in her tummy

as just before she had lived with her boyfriend

and after many happy years together

they decided to part

so Nan's home was home just until she could her perfect nest to live in.

The little brown lady slept in a bedroom covered in splendid flowers

that Grandy Ronnie had chosen many years ago.

Nan was not sure if she liked the flowers

but the little brown lady was happy to keep them

as every day she woke to have sunlight streaming in, hear the sea

and feel like she was in an enchanted garden.

In the bedroom was a large skinny cupboard.

It was an empty cupboard

as the room was so huge

and all the clutter that the brown lady possessed

was neatly tucked away in storage.

One day

the brown lady started to buy pretty little gifts to sell

and while they sat cosy without a future owner and a new home to go to

they were stored in the skinny cupboard.

Day by day

week by week

she bought and sold

and soon the cupboard was full as the more she sold, she was able to buy twice as much again.

Each evening she would sit for a wee while up in the enchanted bedroom

with the funny slippers on that Nan had made many years ago

and neatly pack parcels to be posted the very next morning.

When she was tired

she would go to bed

that was always so cosy and warm as her magical Nan

had popped a little bottle in there to sleep with and dream of buying more pretty things.

As the years went by they had special times

walking by the sea

talking

laughing

and sharing memories of years past.

When the little brown lady opened a drawer or a cupboard

she would find objects that triggered recollections of days out in an instant.

The London Zoo Key

the most precious

was taken by the brown lady (who was then a little brown girl) and her Nan every year when they visited the animals.

The key would be inserted into a box next to the cage

and the animal would tell you all about itself.

The little brown girl

would feel that she had the most special secret and the most precious key.

One day

the little brown lady found her perfect nest

and even though she was so happy in her new home

she returns to visit her Nan as often as possible.

When she visits

she always finds a little hot water bottle

hiding in a fresh cosy bed

and her dreams are so perfect and warm.

She is happy

Nan is happy

and they are the best of friends

together and apart

And the skinny cupboard ? .....

Now is holds a few of Nan's clothes

a few jigsaws

and some shoes

but it is still quite bare.

I wonder if it knows how important it was

in storing the beginnings of a dream

of holding possesions that now have new happy homes

and allowing a little brown lady to be exactly where she wants to be in her creative life.

The little brown lady buys more, sells more, and makes more pretty things

but she will never forget where it all begun.

Thank you to my magical Nan and the skinny cupboard.

♥ dommie ♥

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