St Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook
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The history of Saint Dunstan's church Cranbrook
A brief history of Saint Dunstan's church Cranbrook
Places to see in ( Cranbrook - UK )
Places to see in ( Cranbrook - UK )
Cranbrook is a small town in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It lies roughly half-way between Maidstone and Hastings, about 38 miles southeast of central London. The place name Cranbrook derives from Old English cran broc, meaning Crane Marsh, marshy ground frequented by cranes (although more probably herons). Spelling of the place name has evolved over the centuries from Cranebroca (c. 1100); by 1226 it was recorded as Cranebroc, then Cranebrok. By 1610 the name had become Cranbrooke, which evolved into the current spelling.
Located on the Maidstone to Hastings road, it is five miles north of Hawkhurst. The smaller settlements of Swattenden, Colliers Green and Hartley lie within the parish. Baker's Cross is on the eastern outskirts of the town. Cranbrook is on the Hastings Beds, alternating sands and clays which are more resistant to erosion than the surrounding clays and so form the hills of the High Weald. The geology of the area has played a major role in the town's development, deposits of iron ore and fuller's earth were important in the iron industry and cloth industry respectively.
During the 19th century, a group of artists known as the Cranbrook Colony were located here. The Colony artists tended to paint scenes of domestic life in rural Kent – cooking and washing, children playing, and other family activities.
Queen's Hall Theatre, part of Cranbrook School, sponsors many theatre groups, including the Cambridge Footlights and Cranbrook Opera and Dramatic Society (CODS). The Showtimers pantomime group produces an annual show. Cranbrook Town Band, founded in the 1920s, is a British-style brass band, which performs regular concerts in the Queen's Hall, St Dunstan's Church and around Kent.
There are many medieval buildings in the area. At Wilsley Green, to the north of the town, is a Grade I-listed Wealden hall house and cloth hall that dates to the late 14th century. There are a number of medieval cloth halls around the town - the George Hotel is in one dating to 1400, there are two more further down the High St on the north side dating from the late 15th century and 16th century. There are 15th century examples at Goddards Green Farm on Angley Rd, Hill House on The Hill, and on Friezley Lane.
Glassenbury Park is a late-15th-century manor house on the road to Iden Green with a 1730s front block, remodelled in 1877-79 by Anthony Salvia. Wilsley Hotel was originally built in 1864-70 as a home for the Colony artist John Callcott Horsley, designer of the first Christmas card twenty years earlier. The architect was Richard Norman Shaw in his first important domestic commission. The war memorial was erected on Angley Road in 1920.
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Cranbrook, view from St. Dunstan's church
England Trip 2017: Parish Churches of England
Southwell Minster, All Saints Church of Heathfield, St Dunstan's Church of Cranbrook, St Bartholomew's Church of Chalvington, St John the Baptist Church of Ripe, St Mary the Virgin Church of Tewksbury.
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Vicar abseils down tower to launch church tower appeal on occasion of Royal Wedding between Williams and Kate on 29 April 2011
St Dunstan, Cranford
Parish Church of St Dunstan, Cranford Park, Middlesex, England. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner writes in the Middlesex book (1951) of his 'Buildings of England' series: Cranford House...was pulled down shortly before the Second World War. So the church lies now all on its own, with only the stables close to it, and reached from the village by a drive and across a humped bridge. There is great charm in this solitude....There is also great charm in the church..., an aiseless little building....It has a C15 W tower and chancel of flint rubble; but the top storey of the tower is brick-built of 1716.
Interior, including views of the 1612 monument to Sir Roger Aston, Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, and his two wives:
A winter visit:
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The history of Saint John the Evangelist's church Ickham
A brief history of Saint John the Evangelist's church Ickham
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The story of Cranbrook's Elephant search.
The history of Saint John the Baptist's church Harrietsham
A brief history of Saint John the Baptist's church Harrietsham
East End History - Saint Dunstan's Church - Stepney Green
This church is a hidden treasure of history in Tower Hamlets, East London. The only Anglo-Saxon rood cross in London is kept inside, a stone panel depicting the crucifixion. There are also stain-glass windows depicting an Aryan looking Christ by Hugh Easton and some great gargoyles and grotesques on this church of the Merchant Navy and all sailors of the British Empire. Certainly one of the most interesting and culturally valuable buildings in the borough of Tower Hamlets and well worth a visit by locals and tourists alike. Not far from Queen Mary's University and Brick Lane.
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St. Dunstan's, Canterbury
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St.Dunstan's is an Anglican church in Canterbury, Kent, at the junction of London Road and Whitstable Road.It is dedicated to St.Dunstan and gives its name to the part of the city on the left bank of the River Stour.
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St Dunstan in the East Church City of London
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St Dunstan-in-the-East was a Church of England parish church on St Dunstan's Hill, half way between London Bridge and the Tower of London in the City of London. The church was largely destroyed in the Second World War and the ruins are now a public garden.
The church was originally built in about 1100. A new south aisle was added in 1391 and the church was repaired in 1631 at a cost of more than £2,400.
It was severely damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Rather than being completely rebuilt, the damaged church was patched up between 1668 and 1671. A steeple was added in 1695–1701 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It was built in a gothic style sympathetic to main body of the church, though with heavy string courses of a kind not used in the Middle Ages. It has a needle spire carried on four flying buttresses in the manner of that of St Nicholas in Newcastle. The restored church had wooden carvings by Grinling Gibbons and an organ by Father Smith, which was transferred to the abbey at St Albans in 1818.
In 1817 it was found that the weight of the nave roof had thrust the walls seven inches out of the perpendicular. It was decided to rebuild the church from the level of the arches, but the state of the structure proved so bad that the whole building was taken down. It was rebuilt to a design in the perpendicular style by David Laing (then architect to the Board of Customs) with assistance from William Tite. The foundation stone was laid in November 1817 and the church re-opened for worship in January 1821. Built of Portland stone, with a plaster lierne nave vault, it was 115 feet long and 65 feet wide and could accommodate between six and seven hundred people. The cost of the work was £36,000. Wren's tower was retained in the new building.
The church was severely damaged in the Blitz of 1941. Wren's tower and steeple survived the bombs' impact. Of the rest of the church only the north and south walls remained. In the re-organisation of the Anglican Church in London following the War it was decided not to rebuild St Dunstan's, and in 1967 the City of London Corporation decided to turn the ruins of the church into a public garden, which opened in 1971. A lawn and trees were planted in the ruins, with a low fountain in the middle of the nave. The tower now houses the All Hallows House Foundation.
St Dunstan's in 1891
The parish is now combined with the Benefice of All Hallows by the Tower and occasional open-air services are held in the church, such as on Palm Sunday prior to a procession to All Hallows by the Tower along St Dunstan's Hill and Great Tower Street. The ruin was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.
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cranbrook vicar abseiling down the side of his church tower
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