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The Bosenden Wood Memorial

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Alison

The churchyard at St. Michael’s contains a simple wooden memorial to the men from Hernhill who lost their lives in the tragic ‘battle’ of Bosenden Wood on 31st May 1838. The story of how John Tom who was the son of a Cornish publican and had severe mental health problems, persuaded nearly forty men from Hernhill, Boughton and Dunkirk to…

Painting Churches

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Alison

Painting Churches by Brian Jelfs During 2003/2004, I embarked on a GCE A Level Course in Fine Art and during the progress of this course wrote an extended essay on ‘Ruins in Art.’ Some years later, I was a member of the Hernhill PCC Restoration Sub-Committee and we were considering ideas for raising money. I knew that several people in…

What is a perpendicular church?

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Alison

‘Perpendicular’ or ‘perpendicular gothic’ is a style of church architecture developed at the end of the 14th century. To understand the style one needs to look back to the beginning of the 12th century when churches were built in a style brought to England by the Normans. In this Norman style windows and doors were built with a semi-circular arch…

Kilroy was here

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Grant

If today you were found doodling on a wall of St. Michael’s Church, you would receive a firm, but polite, reprimand from the Churchwarden. But that was not always the case. In the medieval period drawing or etching on church walls was not only tolerated but encouraged. To understand why that was so, we need to consider the role religion…

The Bosenden Wood Memorial

Painting Churches

What is a perpendicular church?

Kilroy was here

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