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Photographs of Churches - Interior - Monuments

I had tried to find St Lawrence before, one winters day going up and down country lanes looking for a church, and only finding an entrance to Otterden Place. Because Otterden Place is where the church is. John Vigar (below) raves about St Lawrence, and as I plan to visit and photograph every church in the county, I had to see this one. And then, a friend of mine, Mark, sent me details and a contact number so I could arrange a visit. But it was at the start of the orchid season, and so that comes first. But once that was over, and the Heritage Weened was done and dusted, time again for churches. I sent a post card, really, to the keyholder, as I had no e mail for him or address, and dates were agreed; one was cancelled by David as they lost the key, and then I found out the re-arranged date clashed with Open House. So, the day before, after work, we agreed to meet. I just had to find it. Otterden Court is one of those imposing lesser country houses, mucs have been grand in its day, but now after a slow decay, still looks OK from a distance, but close up the paint is crumbling. David met me outside the church. I say that, but I arrived first, and went to knock on the door of the house, and got no answer. I tried the entrance under the arch, and again got no answer. David then arrived, and after parking the car he met me outside the church, and began to tell me the history of the building A mostly unimproved church is a rare thing, so seeing this one dating from 1754 was glorious. It contains three memorials from the original parish church, and don't look out of place. Also, St Lawrence has a fine modern glass window showing a wonderful ship in a mass of hexagons. It is a peaceful place, sitting beside the now empty house, and is open to visitors who have made appointments. ------------------------------------------- How does one describe a unique building? This church, now owned by a charity, is the most rewarding 18th century structure in Kent many times over. Built by an 18th century benefactor on medieval foundations it is still furnished with its original Chinese Chippendale benches and Box Pews. Monuments from the former church were saved and include medieval brasses and figurative sculpture probably by Epiphanius Evesham (see Lynsted). All this deserves detailed study. Later work includes a short Victorian chancel and 20th century stained glass, the most important of which is surely the NW window by Wilhelmina Geddes, depicting the Prodigal Son. Its colours and form predate Chagall by two generations. The more recent SW window of 60 years later is a poor match in comparison. Location, within the park of the big house, is truly satisfying and if you can only make arrangements to see the inside of one Kent church you should make it this one. www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Otterden ------------------------------------------- OTTERDEN LIES the next parish northward from Lenham, being written in the survey of Domesday, Otringedene, in antient deeds, Otteringden, and in later ones Ottringden, alias Otterden. That part of this parish lying north-westward of the valley, which is between the church and Hallplace, which includes Otterden-place, that church, and the scite of the dilapidated church of Monketon, is in the division of West Kent; and the remaining or south-east part of it, including Hall-place, the scite of the dilapidated church of Boardfield, and the whole hamlet of it, is in that of East Kent. THE PARISH of Otterden lies a little more than a mile from the summit of the chalk hills, and being greatly exposed to the north-east, is very bleak and cold. The hills in it are very frequent and steep; the land is in general very poor and barren, consisting of a loose red earth, mixed with such quantities of flints, that in the bottom of the valleys they entirely cover the surface of the ground, notwithstanding which, the most corn grows where they are thus numerous. The parish, especially in the north-east part, is greatly interspersed with coppice wood, which mostly consists of beech, intermixed at places with hazel and birch, and some few ash and willow stubbs. The roads are very narrow, and from the frequency and steepness of the hills, and the quantities of loose flints in them, are very unpleasant and unsafe to travellers. Nearly in the middle of the parish is Otterdenplace, situated on an eminence, having a most extensive prospect towards the north-east, over the neighbouring country, and the channel beyond it. It is a very large pile of building, the more antient part of it being seemingly of king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign, though some of it has been lately taken down purposely to lessen the size of it; at not more than one hundred yards distance from it is the new church of Otterden, which, from its form, and having no steeple, looks more like some apartment belonging to the mansion than what it really is; about half a mile westward is the parsonage, a modern brick building. It has a small village of a very few houses, called Otterden-street, the cottages in general standing single and dispersed over different parts of it, and are very meanly built; in short, poverty and health may be truly said to be the characteristic of these parts, as well as of those others, throughout this county, which lie on the northern side of this range of hills, near the summit of them, but extending in breadth only a few miles, in some more, in others less; to which district the whole of the above description may be said to be well adapted, almost in every particular. THIS PLACE was part of the possessions given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered in the survey of Domesday: ¶The same Adam, son of Hubert, holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Otringedene. It was taxed at half a suling. The arable land is two carucates. In demesne there is one, and two villeins, with four borderers, having half a carucate. There are two servants, and one acre of meadow. Wood for the pannage of five hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth ten shillings, now thirty shillings. To this manor belong two plats of ground in Canterbury, of twelve pence. Alward held this manor of king Edward. About four years after the above survey, on the bishop's disgrace, all his estates were seized on by his brother, and this among them became confiscated to the crown, OTTERDEN is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and deanry of Ospringe. The antient church was dedicated to St. Laurence, and consisted of two small isles and a chancel, without a steeple, and stood about fifty yards eastward from the corner of Otterden-place; this building being greatly decayed and ruinous, lady Elizabeth Hastings, sister of George, earl of Huntingdon, at the instance of the Rev. Granville Wheler, patron of it, who had married her half-sister lady Catherine, among other acts of charity, devised by her will four hundred pounds towards the rebuilding of it. She died in 1739, and this sum, with the interest of it, before any thing was undertaken for that purpose, amounted to near five hundred pounds, when Mr. Wheler undertook the building of an entire new church here, which was begun in 1753, and completed in about a twelvemonth's time, at the expence of five hundred pounds more out of his own purse, which he liberally gave towards it. The new church, which is a neat elegant building of brick, ornamented with stone rustic quoins, window-cases, &c. is built, great part of it, on the foundations of the old church, which stood about twenty feet more towards the east, the grave-stones over the two rectors being then within the altar-rails. There was no steeple to the former church, nor is there any to the new one, which, with the modern elegance of the building, takes away all appearance of its being a church, on the outside view of it. ¶The monuments of the Lewins and Curteis's are preserved in a small recess on the north side of the church, and have been well repaired and beautified, as has been the monument of Mr. Simon Bunce, and his wife, against the south wall of it. There are many of this family buried in this church, the last of whom were, Mr. Thomas Bunce, from Maidstone, in 1706, and Mrs. Anne Bunce, from Throwley, in 1737; but the grave-stones of this family are now covered by the pews of this new church, which are, nevertheless, fastened only with screws, in order to their being removed when occasion requires. There are several of the Paines, of Hall-place, likewise buried in this church. Underneath the church is a vault for the use of the Wheler family. The rector was bound to repair the chancel of the old church. The patronage of the church of Otterden was ever esteemed as an appendage to the manor, and continued so till Granville Wheler, esq. of Otterden-place, in 1778, conveyed it to Edward Brydges, esq. of Wotton-court, whose eldest son, the Rev. Edward Timewell Brydges, rector of this parish, is the present possessor of it. It is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 6l. 14s. 2d. and is of the yearly certified value of 62l. 17s. 10d. the yearly tenths being 13s. 5d. (fn. 8) In 1640 it was valued at eighty pounds. Communicants sixty-two. The rector of Otterden is entitled to the great and small tithes of this parish, including those of the hamlets of Boardfield and Monketon, now within the bounds of it, the dilapidated churches of which, with their appurtenances, are now annexed as chapels to this rectory. The scite of those churches, and about three acres of glebe land to each, are now held by the rector, as part of the appurtenances of this rectory. www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/pp533-549

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