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I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. ~W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919
This is the view from my side gate.
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.
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.
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 ♥
Commentary.
Ightham Mote is essentially a “moated” Medieval Manor House,
the oldest parts of which date back to the 13th. Century.
These parts are in the eastern wing and consist
of Sandstone blocks and a half-timbered Upper Storey.
The western wing is all stonework, and a later addition,
with drawbridge and an Entry Tower with a large clock.
The house is in four quadrants around a Quadrangle.
Further west beyond lawns and borders is a block
of terraced, half-timbered cottages that housed
servants, cooks, maids and gardeners of the estate.
The gardens are varied, mostly separated by walls.
They include splendid flower borders,
a Kitchen Garden with herbs,
vegetable and fruit garden,
a water-feature and pond.
Surrounded by mature and impressive trees.
Ightham Mote is a superb
location and a peaceful, historical
and beautiful enclave.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 ♥
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.
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.
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.
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 ♥
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.
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.
Distictis buccinatoria, or Phaedranthus buccinatoria, or Bignonia buccinatoria, or Scarlet trumpet vine, or Blood red trumpet vine, and many more imaginative names. 'Buccinatoria' refers to Triton's trumpet (oh! just hear him blow his sea-shell! ).The other words refer to 'Phaedranthus', beautiful flower. 'Bignonia' is from Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743), librarian and influential adviser to King Louix XV of France - now let us praise an ecclesiastical maecenas! - who gave a scholarly position to the later enormously famous and influential botanist Joseph de Tournefort (1656-1708; among the latter's many feats was clarifying the concept of 'genus' in botany, which Linnaeus had left rather vague). Out of gratitude, Tournefort named the species after Bignon. And 'distictis' in this my rhyming photo reminds me of the concept of a poetic couplet!
This particular plant was first described by the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), a student of the great Linnaeus at Uppsala. An avid collector, he knew that to enlist in the Duch East Indies Company (VOC) would take him to exotic places. Thus he became a ship's surgeon and traveled the Dutch colonies and mercantile ports. He is one of the first to give a European description of Japanese plants (he stayed at Decima and also visited Edo, present-day Tokyo). Thunberg saw South Africa, of course, sea routes being what they were, and avidly botanised there. Returning home to Uppsala, he became professor of medicine and natural history. He is sometimes called 'The Father of South African Botany' or the 'Japanese Linnaeus'.
I'm not sure how this plant of Mexican and South Amercan origin comes to be in South Africa...
These absolutely splendid flowers were stunningly bright in the New Year's sunlight. Curiously, they were photographed as I was entering Marais Nature Preserve from the supreme cultivation of the Botanical Gardens of the university. Expecting 'fynbos' at Marais, these great flowers confronted me at the gates with their beauty but also as a kind of anomaly for what I was intent on seeing: 'fynbos', decidedly uncultivated. (Incidentally, if someone can identify for me which of the many members of the Marais family this nature preserve was named for, I'd be very grateful. I only know that the name 'Jan Marais' is used for the name of this reserve, but there are many men listening to that name.)
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.
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.
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.
These splendid flowers were in Derek Jarman's garden at Dungeness, Kent. Blowing around in the wind and looked as if they were on fire;
"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! " seemed to apply to these flowers as much as it did to Juliet
Pattern: Gobang, Flowers, Knights, Horses, Lions. Weave: Vertical Brocade
At Houryuuji Temple in Japan, there is a pattern arranged in the transmitted design of “Lion Hunt Design Brocade”. The image named is a so-called hunting pattern of a Persian knight shooting a leaping lion, enclosed by a gobang (board). At the four corners, a splendid flower pattern is distributed.
Alloxylon flammeum (F. Muell.) P. H. Weston & Crisp
Pink Silky Oak, Satin Silky Oak, Queensland Waratah
A large Australian tree (to 36 m) found only on the Atherton Tablelands in tropical upland rainforest between 600 -1100 m. A glorious red flowering tree of the Proteaceae family, this species was only described in 1991, having been previously known as Oreocallis wickhamii.
To begin at the beginning. Throughout the latter half of the 19th century, Ferdinand von Mueller described many new species, which were forwarded to him by various agents as they explored the newly colonised further reaches of northern Queensland. One such was Walter Hill, now remembered as the Superintendant of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in 1855, and first Colonial Botanist of Queensland 1859. Walter also undertook several expeditions to Cape York and along the north Queensland coast, and in 1873 climbed Bellenden-Ker where he collected specimens of a Proteaceae tree, “ In monte Bellenden-Kerii, altitudine circiter 2500 pedum, ubi Heliciae Youngianae adsociatum; Walt. Hill.” Mueller described this in 1874 as Embothrium wickhamii, in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(66); 164 (tax. nov.).
The genus names is from the Greek, en = in and bothrion = small pit, referring to the location of the anthers in small cavities within the calyx. The species name is for John Clements Wickham, Captain of the Beagle, which explored northern waters between 1837-1841. In 1874 this name was revised by Mueller to Oreocallis wickhamii and remained unchanged until 1991. Oreocallis is from the Greek oreos = mountain and kallos = beauty, referring to the splendid flower show in mountain habitats.
It is worth noting at this point that the genera Embothrium, Oreocallis, Alloxylon and Telopea are a small group of terminal red flowering plants that occur along the southern edges of the Pacific rim. They are known as the subtribe Embothriinae, which is an ancient group from the Cretaceous and which must have predated the splitting of Gondwana, some 60 million years ago.
By the 1980’s there was a growing interest in the fact that Oreocallis wickhamii, contained in fact two species. Indeed, in Muellers collection there appeared to be two species, which had gone unnoticed as separate species, one of which had been collected at Trinity Bay in 1881, which is in lowland rainforest,. This genera was then revised by Peter Weston and Mike Crisp, of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, which led to the reallocation of one species as Alloxylon wickhamii, and the addition of a new species, Alloxyllon flammeum.
Alloxylon from the Greek allo = other or strange, and xylon = wood, and refers to the unusual cell architecture compared with the related genera of Telopea and Oreocallis. RT Baker had first described this unusual wood structure in 1918, in his publication; “On the Technology and Anatomy of some Silky Oak Timbers”. The timber is very light with a specific gravity of 0.53 and has been marketed in Queensland as Satin Oak, STO, under the name of Oreocallis wickhamii. It has a typically silky oak appearance, with a pale pink colour, and a particular sheen, which adds to the ornamentation of the timber.
So A. flammeum had been misidentified as A. wickhamii since 1881 at least, although according to Weston & Crisp ‘they are readily distinguished even with only vegetative material’. A. flammeum can be distinguished by having hairy/ferruginous stems and petioles, whereas those of A.wickhamii are glabrous. The flowers of the former are much brighter and more numerous than the latter which can be almost light purple rather than bright red.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.