Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Dartford?

[grandarog]

Thanks, I wasn't quite sure where it was I new it was somewhere along there.Saw it when we walked along after taking grandchildren to Walmer Castle and Deal to see the Time Ball.
Try this one from early 1900's.

[John Walker]

Spot on Grandarog


On the strip of lawn between Beach Road and the beach at Walmer.


The inscription reads.   The first Roman invasion of Britain led by Julius Caesar landed near here LV BC


Over to you

[grandarog]

That must be  Walmer somewhere on the Beach.

[John Walker]

Salt doesn't seem to have affected it.

[John Walker]

Thanks CAT - that was a good one.  It didn't look like a match on Google View at first but the long narrow windows gave it away.


Next one - where is this plaque located?

[CAT]

I hope you don't wear large boots John Walker because it is indeed Holy Innocent's Church, Adisham from the north.


A view difficult to get today because of trees and shrubs in the churchyard. The pic I posted is from the late 1850-early 1860's and predates the restoration by the then vicar Rev. Montague Villiers in 1868/9. The chancel roof was replaced with a steeper pitched tile one and the tower was foreshortened and covered with a pyramidal tile roof more akin French roofs than Kent. With regards to the part of the cathedral, The church possesses a portion of the twelfth-century timber altar back, or reredos, salvaged from the cathedral by the then vicar during a remodelling of the cathedral's quoir in the early eighteenth-century.


Over too you. 

[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.