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unusual facts about All Saints Church, Maidstone



All Saints Church, Alrewas

Alrewas at the time was a flourishing settlement in the ownership of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia and it remained the property of King John until he granted it to Roger de Somerville to be followed by the Griffiths and later, the Turtons.

All Saints Church, Bakewell

It is used for, amongst other things, concerts by Bakewell Choral Society and the annual Commemoration service of Lady Manners School when they staff and pupils give thanks to Grace, Lady Manners, for founding their school in 1636.

In the Vernon Chapel (off the South aisle) there are several magnificent tombs: Sir Thomas Wendesley (killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403; John Vernon of Haddon Hall, who died in 1477; and Sir George Vernon and his two wives.

There is also a monument to their son, George Manners and his wife Grace.

All Saints Church, Barrowby

Before the early 19th century a church band played for All Saints' services, after which a church organ was installed.

All Saints Church, Claverley

The monument to Sir Robert Broke, who died in 1558, and his two wives is in alabaster with three recumbent effigies on a tomb-chest, and children standing around the sides.

All Saints Church, East Horndon

On the north wall of the nave are monuments to the Powell family, forerunners of Robert Baden-Powell.

All Saints Church, Ecclesall

In the thirteenth century Ralph de Ecclesall gave his mill on the River Sheaf to the monks of Beauchief Abbey.

All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton

An unusual feature of Hope-Jones' planned organ design was a Great to Swell 2nd Touch coupler, and a knob for this exists on the console, though it appears to have never been connected.

All Saints Church, Hollingbourne

Other memorials include those to Martin Barnham (d. 1610, father of Sir Francis Barnham), Dame Grace Gethin (d. 1697), Samuel Plummer (d. 1705), Baldwin Duppa (d. 1737) and Baldwin Duppa (d. 1764)

All Saints Church, Lawshall

The Church of All Saints' Lawshall is part of a united Benefice which includes the Anglican congregations of six parishes and six places of worship covering Bradfield Combust, Great Whelnetham, Hawstead, Lawshall, Nowton and Stanningfield.

All Saints Church, Little Wenham

To the east of the north door is a wall painting of Saint Christopher and the Christ Child.

All Saints Church, Maidstone

Founded by Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay in 1395 as part of a new College of All Saints, the church replaced an earlier one on the site dedicated to St Mary.

All Saints Church, Odiham

The chancel contains a three-light window with late 20th-century glass by Patrick Reyntiens depicting the Adoration of the Lamb.

All Saints Church, Oxford

All Saints Church is on the north side of the High Street in central Oxford, England, on the corner of Turl Street.

All Saints Church, Patcham

The commissioners produced a book, The Book of All The Auncient Ancient Customs heretofore used amonge the fishermen of the Toune of Brighthelmston, whose orders were enshrined in law.

All Saints Church, Peckham

Two further services, BBC Songs of Praise services, "Peckham Praise" and "Urban Hope" were subsequently recorded and broadcast in September 2010 and February 2011.

All Saints Church, Poplar

Great steps were built up to the new carved high altar which was commissioned from Oberammergau by the Rector, the Revd Arthur Chandler, later Bishop of Bloemfontein.

All Saints Church, Siddington

There is a memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrith Elstob VC DSO MC (1888 – 1918), recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War II, whose father was Vicar of All Saints.

All Saints Church, Ulcombe

The walls feature wall paintings in various locations including St Michael defeating Satan, a number of crucifixions and Dives and Lazarus.

All Saints Church, Wraxall

The large churchyard contains several monuments to the Gibbs family which owned the nearby Tyntesfield Estate, which has recently been purchased by the National Trust following the death of Baron Wraxall.

Borough of Tunbridge Wells

The SER line to Hastings passes through Tunbridge Wells; here there was once a further branch connection south-eastwards to Groombridge, and at Paddock Wood is the southern terminus of the Medway Valley Line to Maidstone.

Bossom

Bossom baronets, of Maidstone in the County of Kent, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Dorchester Abbey

In 1993 a Union Jack that had been draped over the coffins of prisoners of war at Batu Lintang camp, Sarawak, Borneo was placed in the abbey together with two wooden memorial plaques; they had formerly been housed at All Saints Church, Oxford.

Edward Hales

Sir Edward Hales, 2nd Baronet (1626–1684), Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and Queenborough

Fleet, Hampshire

By 1860 Charles Lefroy, a local squire, commissioned All Saints Church, Fleet - in the Blue Triangle area in memory of his wife who had died in 1857.

GKD sports cars

GKD Sports Cars is a small volume car manufacturer based in Boughton Monchelsea, near Maidstone, Kent, with workshops at Lenham.

Ian McGregor

He has also presented drive time for Manx Radio on the Isle of Man and worked as a presenter on the trial broadcasts of Chelmer Radio and Maidstone’s CTR (now KMfm).

Jake Hendriks

2008 - Jack and the Beanstalk - "Hazlitt Theatre" Maidstone - 29 November 2008 - 4 January 2009.

James Vashon

He was quickly promoted to first-lieutenant when Lieutenant Peter Rainier (for whom Mount Rainier was named) was promoted and transferred off the Maidstone.

John Dryden

Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was Rector of All Saints.

John Hazlitt

After living in Maidstone in Kent, and in Bandon in County Cork, the family moved to America in 1783, living first in Philadelphia and then in Boston.

John Manningham

He was also befriended by a distant relative, Richard Manningham, who, born at St Albans in 1539, made a fortune in London as a mercer, and in his old age retired to Bradbourne, near Maidstone.

Kacey Ainsworth

Before her appearances on television shows, she made her first ever appearance in 1998 on a commercial for Rover Mini cars, in which as a contestant named "Helen from Maidstone" she had to guess by looking at the sizes of different men's genitalia what car they own.

Kit Pedler

Pedler is buried at All Saints' Church in the Kent village of Graveney, where he lived before moving to nearby Doddington.

Lambeth Orchestra

It gives a regular series of 6 concerts each year at All Saints Church, West Dulwich and St John's Waterloo.

Maidstone Corporation Transport

In the film The Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller's (Matthew McConaughey) Los Angeles apartment is decorated with route signs from Maidstone Corporation Transport buses.

Maidstone, Ontario

The Windsor Star wrote a story in summer 2006, projecting the community's population to soar to over 2000 within the next 10 years (at the time, it was around 580) due to the explosive growth in Tecumseh.

Mark Gall

Maidstone manager John Still was nevertheless surprised that no League club had been prepared to risk such a small sum on a player of potential, albeit one playing at an "fairly low" level.

RAF Glatton

The 457th Bomb Group has a memorial dedicated to the men who lost their lives flying from Glatton in All Saints Church Conington churchyard.

Reformed Church of Beacon

The Reformed Church of Beacon shows the influence of William Butterfield's contemporary All Saints Church in London's Fitzrovia neighborhood, and writings by John Ruskin such as Seven Lamps of Architecture and Stones of Venice.

Richard H. Small

He taught for a number of years at that university, but returned to industry in 1986 as Head of Research at KEF Electronics Ltd. in Maidstone, England until 1993.

St John's, Redhill

Pearson's building is typical of his major churches, and shares characteristic features with such buildings as St Stephen, Bournemouth, All Saints, Hove, St Augustine, Kilburn and St John, South Norwood.

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

The Castle of Adventures

The series was filmed on location and at Saltwood Castle in Maidstone, Kent.

Wainscott, New York

The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came.


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