Places to see in ( Faversham - UK )
Places to see in ( Faversham - UK )
Faversham is a market town and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. The town of Faversham is 48 miles from London and 10 miles from Canterbury and lies next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. Faversham is close to the A2, which follows an ancient British trackway which was used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons, and known as Watling Street. The Faversham name is of Latin via Old English origin, meaning the metal-worker's village.
There has been a settlement at Faversham since pre-Roman times, next to the ancient sea port on Faversham Creek, and archaeological evidence has shown a Roman theatre was based in the town. It was inhabited by the Saxons and mentioned in the Domesday book as Favreshant. The town was favoured by King Stephen who established Faversham Abbey, which survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538. Subsequently, the town became an important seaport and established itself as a centre for brewing, and the Shepherd Neame Brewery, founded in 1698, remains a significant major employer.
The town was also the centre of the explosives industry between the 17th and early 20th century, before a decline following an accident in 1916 which killed over 100 workers. This coincided with a revival of the shipping industry in the town. Faversham has a number of landmarks, with several historic churches including St Mary of Charity, Faversham Parish Church, the Maison Dieu and Faversham Recreation Ground. Faversham Market has been established for over 900 years and is still based in the town centre. There are good road and rail links, including a Southeastern service to the High Speed 1 line at Ebbsfleet International and London.
Faversham is roughly equidistant between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. It lies 48 miles (77 km) east of London, 18 miles (29 km) east north east of Maidstone and 13 miles (21 km) from Ashford. Nearby villages include Oare across Oare Creek to the north, Luddenham, Mockbeggar and Ospringe. Geographically, Faversham sits at a boundary between marshland to the north and a mixture of brick earth, gravel and chalk to the south which leads into the North Downs.
Arden of Feversham is a play about the murder of Thomas Arden written around 1590, possibly by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe. The Faversham Society was established in 1962, and is one of the oldest Civic Societies in the UK. Faversham Recreation Ground (locally known simply as Faversham Rec) is to the east of the town centre.
Faversham Stone Chapel (in Norton, Buckland and Stone) is the remains of the Church of Our Lady of Elwarton. Although Faversham Abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII the nearby St Mary of Charity, Faversham Parish Church remains, and has been a Grade I listed building since 1950. St Catherine's Church dates from the Norman period and was extensively restored in the 1860s. Faversham Cottage Hospital opened in 1887. It was extended in 1922 and included a World War I memorial, which was unveiled by Vice Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas. Faversham Cemetery opened in 1898.
Faversham is close to the A2 road, a historically important route from London to Canterbury and the Channel ports. Faversham railway station opened in 1858. A former goods sheet built as part of the original railway works is now Grade I listed.
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House of God : Maison Dieu.
Maison Dieu is in Faversham, Kent.Originating as a 13th-century wayside hospital, this flint and timber-framed building now displays Roman artefacts from nearby sites.
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Faversham Stone Chapel
Stone Chapel is the ruined Church of Our Lady of Elwarton of Roman and Saxon origin. It lies in a copse 100 yards north of the A2 about 1/2 mile west of Ospringe. It is open at all times.
Though it fell into decay more than 400 years ago, Stone Chapel is a unique church building, the only one in England known to incorporate the remains of a pagan shrine or mausoleum.
The remains of the ruined church of Our Lady of Elwarton lie at the bottom of Syndale Valley, beneath Judd hill and Beacon Hill, close to where a stream once ran. From the road or from the railway to the north there appears to be just a group of crumbling remains set at the edge of a small copse in the middle of a field, and of no particular significance.
The church has not been in use since sometime in the 16th century. The date at which it was abandoned is uncertain, but the records of a visitation in 1511 indicate it was in a state of disrepair at that time and bequests during the early years of the 16th century indicate repairs to the fabric continued to be necessary. It is most likely the church was not used at all after the Reformation.
G. W. Meates, reporting on one of the several excavations at the site, recorded that buttresses were added to the north wall of the nave during the 13th century because wooden beams had rotted; this suggests the building was based on an earlier structure already old by that time. Saxon and Roman remains found during Meates’s excavation in 1967 indicate a long period of use at the site, spanning more than a thousand years.
The remains consist of walls standing about three feet above ground level, somewhat higher at the east end. The walls enclose three distinct areas; the nave to the west, the sanctuary to the east and a section linking the two. The walls of the nave and the sanctuary are mainly of flint bonded with a mortar rich with broken seashells. The construction of the centre section is quite different; the walls here rest on a foundation of flint and consist of layers of tufa blocks, each around a foot square, separated by a double layer of red brick an inch thick. This construction is typically Roman and Meates’s discovery of Roman coins dating from the 3rd and early 4th centuries AD confirms this section as Roman in origin. The size and nature of the foundations revealed during the excavation suggest this was a mausoleum. The building was windowless with a barrel vaulted roof and a stout door with megalithic stone frame. Stones which formed the door frame can still be seen, re-used in the 13th century buttresses. The cill of the door is still in situ.
The site is now somewhat remote from habitation, though a road ran to the north of the church until the early part of the 19th century. In Roman times, however, the area was quite heavily populated. There was probably a Roman camp on Judd Hill and a cemetery of substantial size has been found a few hundred yards to the east of the church. A number of Roman artefacts have also been found in the field in which the church stands. The Itinerary of Antonius places the Roman station Durolevum 16 miles from Rochester and 9 or 12 miles from Canterbury. It is quite possible, but so far unproved, that the site on Judd Hill is this station.
In AD 601 Pope Gregory directed St.Augustine not to destroy pagan buildings, but to adapt them for Christian use. King Ethelbert of Kent allowed St.Augustine to build and repair churches in the area. It is tempting to think that this little church at Stone is one of the churches St.Augustine converted, but there is no proof that the fabric is of this early a date. As it is, the remains are a unique record of the adaptation of a pagan Roman building for Christian use and are preserved for that reason.
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Faversham and surrounding area, 1959. Archive film 94545
Faversham in Kent around 1959. Man cycles past black and white thatched cottages. Man on moped or small motorbike. Cheerful hop-pickers at the end of their shift or work. Women with children. In town of Faversham, a street sweeper pushes barrow across quiet street. Paper-mills of Sittingbourne.
Faversham - Norton - Newnham - Doddington in Kent
A drive from Faversham through the Kent countryside to the villages of Norton and Newnham to Doddington in Kent, England 2011