Day 21 of #KentChurches Advent23 and today we look up at the arched windows in many of our #KentChurches
A midwinter potter around St Mary and St Ethelburga, Lyminge.
Queen Ethelburga (died c. 647) was daughter to Ethelbert and
Bertha of Kent.
After the death of her husband (Edwin) in 633, she established one of England's first monastic houses: Lyminge Abbey
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For #StainedGlassSunday , scenes of a walled city & St Martin and the Beggar.
Medieval glass from Chartres Cathedral - inserted into the NW nave of St Martin's Church, Canterbury, c. 1980. Gifted to replace a window lost in 1942.
#StainedGlassSpolia #MedievalGlass #KentChurches
#KentChurches #RideandStride St Peter and St Paul East Sutton are welcoming riders and striders on the 9th , raising funds for our historic Churches in Kent , brilliant , be prepared for all weathers But most of all Enjoy 😃
#KentChurches Advent23 today visits St Leonard's Church Situated high up on the hill over Hythe and known as the “church with the bones” as it has the largest and best-preserved collection of ancient human skulls and bones in Britain 💀 #KentChurches
Today's #KentChurches Advent23 features # #KentChurches road signs!
Have you ever noticed how there’s usually a church in “Church Road” or Church Lane?!
Here we see Ashford St Mary’s, Christ Church South Ashford, St Leonard’s Hythe & Saint Martin’s Aldington
Detail from Arild Rosenkrantz east window at Wickhambreaux
Happy Easter! #Kentchurches #StainedGlassSunday
Scenes from the life of St Joseph. Just two of the many wonderful works in ceramic by Adam Kossowski at The Friars, Aylesford #Kentchurches
A fine and modest tombstone in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Betteshanger, Kent. A bugle horn stringed, though not a coat of arms. March 2023. #Kentchurches
#KentChurches #Woodensday English Churches Etched onto the wooden panelling behind the clock face at St. Mary's, Hunton, is the vicar's wartime sketches (dated 1939-42). The tower was used as a watchtower.
Kent churches: the perfect place to find religion in seven easy steps. #KentChurches #SevenStepsToReligion tinyurl.com/2x6t8owt
I'm taking part in Ride and Stride on 9th September, fundraising for Friends Of Kent Churches
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