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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8686 on: July 11, 2023, 01:01:37 AM »
I've managed to track it down.  Very interesting MartinR.
I'll hold back as I've only just had a GTP.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8685 on: July 10, 2023, 09:37:08 PM »
I think I may have put this one up in the old forum.  Anyhow, it's obviously a bell, but a careful examination will reveal an unusual inscription cast into it.  Bragging rights if you can locate it, but full prize only if you can explain the inscription.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8684 on: July 09, 2023, 11:21:33 PM »
I've been a bit busy today.  I'll look out a photo tomorrow.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8683 on: July 09, 2023, 01:41:22 PM »
Yes - I was refering to the chapel as against the main shrine.  I could only find reference to the chapel in it's own right. 

Apologies MartinR if this misled you.


It is St Annes Chapel.  Over to you.

My original photo depicts Anne and Mary going to the temple so Mary can be dedicated to
the service of God.

Tucked in the corner before you reach the Main Shrine, is the St Anne’s Chapel, memorable for its green walls and simplicity. The scraffito work and ceramics are all by Kossowski. Altar in St Anne's chapel , part of The Friars, Carmelite monastery in Aylesford, Kent. The whole chapel, including this altar, were decorated by artist and ceramicist, Adam Kossowski, part of his thanks for deliverance from the horrors of a Soviet labour camp.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8682 on: July 09, 2023, 10:12:56 AM »
Wait - when you said it was not a shrine were you referring to the main shrine at the Friars or the whole shrine complex?  If the former then there's a St Anne's Chapel around the back of the open air main shrine, but it is part of the shrine complex.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8681 on: July 09, 2023, 09:58:17 AM »
There is a Peace Garden near this chapel.  The word PEACE appears in many languages from around the world.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8680 on: July 08, 2023, 10:33:09 PM »
Martin, Google is your friend  :)

I and probably others have held fire as you have been so close.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8679 on: July 08, 2023, 07:44:06 PM »
It's a chapel adjoining a shrine.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8678 on: July 08, 2023, 06:01:33 PM »
Hasn't anyone else any ideas?  I've exhausted GSV, Google and my memory and the only places of worship of any description I can find on either side of the river are teh shrine complex and the parish church.  Does this chapel still exist?  Is it obvious as a chapel, or is it part of a house/shop/pub that was once used as a chapel?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8677 on: July 08, 2023, 12:24:09 AM »
MartinR   -  Correct village but it's not a church.  There are other chapels close by.

You are so close with your earlier line  It's not the shrine of St Simon Stock at Aylesford (aka "The Friars")
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8676 on: July 07, 2023, 09:33:18 PM »
St Peter & St Pauls, Aylesford?  I know it's CofE, and I can't recall wall decorations from last time I was there, but it appears to be the only other PoW in Aylesford itself.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8675 on: July 07, 2023, 07:33:29 PM »
Quote from: MartinR on July 07, 2023, 08:57:44 AM
So far ...
  • It's not the shrine of St Simon Stock at Aylesford (aka "The Friars")
  • It's a small chapel [Query: is this because it's RC and therefore not a CofE parish church?]
  • It's near two bodies of water, one tidal, one non-tidal
  • It's not St Anne's Margate, lies to the west of there
  • The GTP does show St. Anne with her daughter St Mary, but we don't know if this is the chapel's dedication
  • There are one or more bells, but Love's Guide to the Church Bells of Kent doesn't list a St Anne's
  • 700 years of history
... anything I've missed?

Hmm.  Stumped.  I'm off to the Kent Show.

Could it be Faversham area?

You are so close with your first line MartinR  :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8674 on: July 07, 2023, 06:49:07 PM »
There's St Henry & St Elizabeth in The Broadway, Sheerness.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8673 on: July 07, 2023, 04:44:49 PM »
Is this in a side chapel of church possibly dedicated to St Mary?

Two bodies of water, one tidal could be a dock, or defences such as around Sheerness at Barton’s Point?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8672 on: July 07, 2023, 08:57:44 AM »
So far ...
  • It's not the shrine of St Simon Stock at Aylesford (aka "The Friars")
  • It's a small chapel [Query: is this because it's RC and therefore not a CofE parish church?]
  • It's near two bodies of water, one tidal, one non-tidal
  • It's not St Anne's Margate, lies to the west of there
  • The GTP does show St. Anne with her daughter St Mary, but we don't know if this is the chapel's dedication
  • There are one or more bells, but Love's Guide to the Church Bells of Kent doesn't list a St Anne's
  • 700 years of history
... anything I've missed?

Hmm.  Stumped.  I'm off to the Kent Show.

Could it be Faversham area?
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