Kent Old Maps
1895 – 2022 1895 – Hoo St. Werburgh. – 2022 1930s – High Halstow – 2022
Category: History
St. Mary’s Chickney then and now
St. Mary’s church, Chickney, Essex, was struck by lightning in 1902 and £329 was raised to be spent on repairs to the tower. Following a period of neglect, the church
Return of the Stainburn Bible Stand
Early in 2014 my attention was drawn to an inscribed brass ‘memorial plaque’ being sold in Belfast on a well-known auction website. The first to bring this to my attention
Henry Audley’s Monument at Berechurch Essex
Henry Audley’s magnificent monument stands in St. Michael’s Church, Berechurch, a mile or two south of Colchester in Essex. “His date of death is not known but, as he is
William Burges’ Rose Window
The rose window high in the west end of the church of Christ the Consoler, Skelton-cum-Newby, dates to the mid 1870s and was made by Saunders & Co. to a
The Case of the Cowthorpe Brass
19th-century metal theft Churches have been a target for thieves since time immemorial. On Saturday 9th June 1860, the York Herald reported on such a crime, with the headline, “Sacrilege