St_Mary's_church_Goudhurst_Kent_(_4_Views_)_(8700860807).jpg
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Description St Mary's church Goudhurst Kent ( 4 Views ) (8700860807).jpg |
The earliest record of St Mary's Church, Goudhurst, is dated 1119 in the reign of Henry 1. There was probably a church on the hill above the village long before then, perhaps even in Saxon times. From the present tower it is said that you can see (on a clear day, and presumably with a telescope!) an many as fifty-one other churches, from Lympne by the marshes to Ide Hill on the North Downs. Formerly this prospect would have been ever more remarkable, for when the tower was built in the early part of the 14th century it was one storey higher and crowned with a spire. The spire stood until 1637 when, during a summer storm it was struck by lightning and burned to destruction. To the North-West, Canary Wharf Tower in London can now be seen, a distance of forty miles. <a href=" http://www.goudhurst.co.uk/Pages/st_mary's_church_long.html " rel="nofollow">Information found here with more details</a> |
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Source | St Mary's church Goudhurst Kent ( 4 Views ) |
Author | Loco Steve from Bromley , UK |
Camera location | 51° 06′ 45.17″ N, 0° 27′ 27.5″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.112548; 0.457639 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Loco Steve at https://flickr.com/photos/36989019@N08/8700860807 . It was reviewed on 26 December 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
26 December 2021