Church Micro 2093…Stone Street Traditional Geocache
Church Micro 2093…Stone Street
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Why is our church named after St Lawrence?
St Lawrence church is named after the parish of St Lawrence on the Isle of Wight - it was there that the 6-year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilkinson of Frankfield (the house you can see across the field to the north of our church) had died in 1866 while on holiday.
In Mary Rachel's memory, the Wilkinsons built our St Lawrence's Church in 1867/8, and once completed, Mary Rachel's remains were exhumed and re-buried in our churchyard as the first entry in St Lawrence's Burials Register.
The original building was modelled on Old St Lawrence Church, Isle of Wight (a tiny 12th Century church - see the pictures on the windowsill at the west end of the church.) Some of the highlights are:-
1867 The Foundation stone was laid on 8th October.
St Lawrence District was established (4 November, out of the chaplaincy of Seal, originally part of the large parish of Kemsing) the Revd B P Thompson, M A, was appointed Incumbent. 1868 the Church was built from Kentish Ragstone from the local Foxbury Quarry, and lined with soft yellow Speldhurst stone. The Pulpit is also of Speldhurst stone; the white roof of the porch is made of blocks of Otford chalk. 1868 20th June the church was consecrated on - our annual Dedication Festival is held on a Sunday on or near this date. 1877 St Lawrence's established as a separate parish 2-manual pipe organ, built by A Gern of London, hand-pumped! 1960’s Electricity arrives! 1965 Maria Usall was christened. 1983 Usall were married. 1984 (Christmas Eve) the first little Usall was christened. 2005 Church struck by lightning, worship resumes in the nave until the fire damage is completed, and chancel reordered (removal of inner pews) - celebrated at a re-opening service on 10th December 2006
If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.
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Lbh pna ybt guvf ng gur raq bs gur srapr