Guess the Place

[MartinR]

Pending confirmation from Cat, I think you have it; well done.  See the illustration at the foot of https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/14/adisham-church for a post-Victorian restoration view.  Earlier in the article there is also a line drawing of the reredos.  There's a description of it pre-"restoration" at https://archive.org/details/notesonchurcheso00glyn/page/244

[John Walker]

Holy Innocents Church, Adisham?  A medieval frame from the cathedral is inside.


If it is that church, then you are correct - I will be kicking myself - I have ancestors who were baptised and married there!   

[CAT]

Not St Paul's John Walker. It's not town/city location, but out in the villages

[John Walker]

I can't see an exact match but some similarities - St Paul's Church, Canterbury ?

[CAT]

Afraid neither of your guess' are correct with Fordwich or Northbourne John Walker, but you are getting closer. You'll probably kick yourself when this one is got.

This manor was also given by Eadbald, but earlier than Fordwich.

[John Walker]

How about Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fordwich ?

What is thought to be part of St Thomas's Shrine is in there.   I can see some resemblance to the old photo but if it is the right church, it has changed a lot.

[MartinR]

Northbourne?  It was apparently given by Eadbald to St. Augustine's Abbey in 618.  I'm having trouble with the "part of Canterbury cathedral as one of its fixtures" unless you are referring to the skeletons of the child Princes Ethelbert and Etheldred murdered in 665.

[CAT]

Another quick clue.

The manor (not parish as it predates the establishment of parishes) this church served is regarded as one of the earliest to be given by the son of king Ethelbert to the newly established monastery of Christ-church.

[CAT]

I can see, and like, your line thought chain John Walker, and your getting closer, but it's not At Nicholas', Ash. Further west(ish)

[John Walker]

Struggling with this one.  I usually use the tower as my first pointer ie, Spire, castellations and windows etc but as it seems this tower has been remodeled this won't help.


It seems we're looking east of Sandwich so a quick guess, St Nicholas Parish Church, Ash
?

[CAT]

Afraid it's not St peter's in Sandwich MartinR, your a little to far east.

The Cathedral fixing is slightly more rarer than the bells. In fact you could say it is almost unique.

[MartinR]

St. Peter's Sandwich?  In 1727 6 bells were purchased from Canterbury Cathedral, recast into 8 in 1779 but unringable since 1913.

[CAT]

Only the lower two thirds of the tower remain, the top third being remodelled in the restoration.

[John Walker]

Does the tower remain much the same?

[CAT]

A quick clue.

The church, which dates from the twelfth-century, possesses part of Canterbury cathedral as one of its fixtures.