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Smiffy:

grandarog,

The entry for the church on the Historic England site states:

"Shingle spire of an eight sided cone placed over a pyramid, built 1915 after an explosion"

Can you throw any light on this explosion and what was the cause of it?

Mike Gunnill:
grandarog


I am sure you have sen this image before. For others this is grandarog's grandfather Reverend John Woodruff.


Nice story grandarog!

grandarog:
Essentially a topic about anything and everything about my Village Church.


The Rev John Woodruff 1805-1860 who did so much for the Parish was the Paternal Grandfather on my Maternal Family lineage.


An interesting snippet from a Parish Register entry.
Transcript. July 16th 1851.The bricklayer finished restoring the South side of Upchurch Church.The wall had been plastered over and some of the stones had become unsettled. The mortar on the walls was all pecked offand they were pointed with dark mortar, which was made darker by the addition of damaged gunpowder from the Faversham mills. At the same time two new windows of Case stones were inserted in the wall of the South East Chancel. The contract for pointing the wall was taken at 18 pounds and the new windows at the same sum. 9 pounds each.
John Woodruff
The copy of original below.

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