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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1224 on: March 09, 2020, 10:44:12 AM »
Slightly further than Ashford and a bit lower.   Between High Weald and Kent Downs

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1223 on: March 09, 2020, 10:13:32 AM »
Towards Ashford, or beyond?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1222 on: March 09, 2020, 10:11:45 AM »
Not there CAT - head roughly North West.


It will interesting if anyone knows why all those houses on the left have gone - replaced with modern bungalows etc.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1221 on: March 09, 2020, 07:16:39 AM »
Hythe/Saltwood area?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1220 on: March 08, 2020, 11:08:48 PM »
Another interesting GTP.  I was walking around that church last summer.


Next one ...


Only the road junction and the chapel remain.  It looks like a pond on the right by the white railing but that doesn't appear to exist either.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1219 on: March 08, 2020, 06:50:35 PM »
You have it John Walker. It is indeed the church with a double dedication of St Mary and St Eanswythe, the later you rightly said was a seventh-century member of the Kentish Royal family. Originally founding a minster at Folkestone, the chapel where her remains rested was inundated by the sea eroding the cliff above which it stood. her remains were transferred to an adjoining priory, which was subsequently moved, with her remains, in the twelfth-century to a new location, which is where the present church stands. Her remain appear to have been concealed in a niche in the north wall of the chancel possibly during the early years of the dissolution only to be discovered during the mid nineteenth-century restoration of the current church. Its these remain hat have recently been re-examined with carbon dating showing the skeletal remains are those of a young woman who died during the mid seventh-century.


You are right in the fact that the church is much larger than in the drawing, which is due to the nave having been largely destroyed during the eighteenth-century and replaced with a brick 'barn-like' structure. this can be seen in the sketch, and was replaced with the present nave in the mid nineteenth-century.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1218 on: March 08, 2020, 06:03:18 PM »
I see what you are saying Grandarog.   This is the one I'm thinking of - Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe, on Church Street, Folkestone.
Perhaps there are two St Mary's churches ?  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1217 on: March 08, 2020, 05:24:42 PM »
If it is St Marys it has certainly been made a lot bigger over the years. :D ;D

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1216 on: March 08, 2020, 12:52:30 PM »



I believe that is St Mary in Folkestone where they think they have discovered the remains of St Eanswythe, who lived in the 7th century AD.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1215 on: March 08, 2020, 10:07:57 AM »
Sorry for further delay.


Keeping on the church theme, where is this church represented on an early nineteenth-century pencil sketch. It is still standing, and very much in use, but was heavily altered and restored during the mid nineteenth-century. It has recently been the focus for an important news article.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1214 on: March 07, 2020, 05:59:05 PM »
Many thanks Diapason. The clue was in the walling surrounding the doorway in your pic, which appeared to be of of chalk blocks. It is supposed because of this building material, and the shock of big military guns nearby during WWII that the church suffered seriously with plaster falling from the walls and ceilings, doors being blown open through shock and windows being blown in. Whether the military contribution caused the collapse of the nave roof and nave during the 1950s is debatable, as the church's structure had been poorly maintained for many years. It is also suggested that heavy rain and a flooding lake close by caused the chalk blocks to absorb water and fracture.


I will post my next later tonight

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1213 on: March 07, 2020, 01:41:35 PM »

Well done, CAT, that wasn`t an easy one.


The ruin of St. Mary`s, Eastwell.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1212 on: March 06, 2020, 02:33:13 PM »
Eastwell?

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« Reply #1211 on: March 06, 2020, 02:27:13 PM »
Not semi, John. A complete ruin. That`s probably given it away.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1210 on: March 06, 2020, 12:04:44 PM »
A semi derelict church ?