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English: St Thomas-A-Becket Church The church of St Thomas Becket, Fairfield, is a rare example of a small medieval church which has managed to survive without an immediate village to sustain it. It was probably built by the Catholic Monks at Canterbury as an outpost.Probably built in the late 12th century, a 1293 AD visitation roll records that the church was lightly constructed and it appears to have remained as such for much of its life - implying the church authorities themselves may have regarded the Fairfield community as 'marginal' and the building's fabric as almost expendable. It is described in 1293 as being of wood and plaster, very damp.
The church today is small and quite charming, being surrounded on all sides by water courses and only reached via a concrete footbridge. Until 1913, when an earth causeway was built, a boat was often needed to reach it. |
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| Author | Nigel Chadwick |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Nigel Chadwick and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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