Ivychurch Church

St George Ivychurch - Canterbury Diocese

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Priest in Charge The Revd Jim Field
The Vicarage, North Street, New Romney TN28 8DR - Tel: 01797 362308 email: click here

Please telephone Jim for Baptisms, Weddings and Banns at Ivychurch

or for any pastoral concern which you would like to discuss with him.

- Churchwardens: Margaret Waite and John Hendy

- Organist: Jessie Bennett

- PCC Secretary:

- PCC Treasurer: Sarah Wreathall

- Sacristan: John Hendy

- Church keys: Celia Heritage

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IVYCHURCH NEWS

CHURCH NEWS

On Sunday 5 May we will hold a celebration of the Eucharist at 6.30 pm and on 19th May (Whit Sunday), Sung Evensong also takes place at 6.30 pm. One further important date in the church calendar is Ascension Day on Thursday 9th May when a Benefice Eucharist will take place at St George’s at 7 pm.

MARSH WARBLERS

This locally based group will be singing in the church for 35 minutes from 3.30 pm on the afternoon of Saturday 11th May. If you can’t stand the thought of remaining inside when the FA Cup Final is on the box, then you’ll know where to go instead!

WEST WINDOW

The saga continues with English Heritage voicing their unhappiness concerning the window being rebuilt using a non-local stone. Unfortunately all the best Kentish Ragstone has now been extracted and what is left is considered to be of a poor standard, both fracturing easily and difficult to work. In spite of this, the surviving quarry is to be asked if they are able to guarantee a quality supply without the considerable wastage which appears to be a mark of the present seams currently being mined. Once this line of enquiry is exhausted then we will be in a better position to proceed with the window’s reconstruction.

Paul Bennett, from the Canterbury Archeological Trust, states that the Decorated window tracery is as good as anything seen at Canterbury Cathedral which is another reason why, frustrating as the delays are proving to be, we must proceed with care.

VILLAGE EVENTS

The next meeting of the Parish Council is due to be held in the Village Hall at 7.30 pm on 2nd May.

The Ivychurch Amenities Association (IAA) is holding a Quiz Night in the Village Hall at 7 for 7.30 on Friday 17th May. To book your team, please ring Julia on 01797 344623 and if you’re not a member of a team and yet still wish to participate in this very worthwhile event, then come along anyway and a team will be found for you.

John Hendy

ST GEORGE IVYCHURCH

Due to its size and space, St. George's is known as 'the

Cathedral of Romney Marsh' and is mainly a 14th century building

with a sevenbay arcade built in the late Decorated style of English

architecture. The body of the church dates from around 1360

with the Perpendicular-style tower and west end being added

about 100 years later. There are some remains/ reminders of an

earlier, Early English, church which are mainly found at the east

end and the first Rector is recorded as taking up his post in 1242.

The building is mainly constructed of Kentish ragstone but some

Caen stone from the earlier church can also be found as can

many wave-rolled flints which are a reminder of the close proximity

of the English Channel.

The nave is particularly impressive as it is empty of seats and the

space is put to uses such as exhibitions, concerts, barn dances

and the annual Harvest Supper. The recently restored north aisle

(originally the Lady Chapel) is now a Museum of Rural Life.

The population of the parish has never been large and the church is a statement of importance and propaganda on behalf of the Archbishops of Canterbury on whose land it was built in the Manor of Aldington. The blocked clerestory windows in the nave are identical to those in the south aisle of Canterbury Cathedral which indicate that masons from Canterbury were involved with its construction.

We operate an open church policy and visitors are welcome during the hours of daylight. Please sign our visitors' book!

Information concerning the church is available via our new all-colour church guide and our Architectural Guide to St. George's which contains a detailed plan. John Piper post cards are also available for sale.

The parish is huge and spreads across the marsh down to the Kent ditch (the boundary between Kent and East Sussex) although its population is only some 170, 50% of whom live in the village. The shape of the parish is rather unusual as it follows the parcels of land to the south-west which were progressively 'inned' (drained) in the 12th century onwards.

The church congregation is small but very welcoming. Services are held every other Sunday and include both a Eucharist from Common Worship and a Sung Evensong from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

RECTORS OF

IVYCHURCH ST. GEORGE

Where the word “in” appears before a date it signifies that the

priest was in occupation of the benefice during that year but

the date of his institution is not known.

Walter de Bradele		1242	Thomas Osmonton		1657
Robert de Orlawestone		in 1278	Alexander Burnett		1660
Hugh de Penebroke		1288		Bishop of Aberdeen	1663
Hugh de Nottingham		1293		Archbishop of Glasgow	1664
John de Ros		in 1301		Archbishop of St Andrews	1679
Robert de Norton		1323	Robert Boys		1663
Walter de Kemeseye		1324	Edward Ladbrooke		1666
William de Foxcote		in 1337	Obadiah Brookesbye		1676
William de Leghton		1353	Nicholas Battely		1685
Robert de Charwelton		1362	Elias Sydall		1704
Thomas de Preston		1368		Dean of Canterbury	1728
John Marcelly		1368		Bishop of St Davids	1731
Thomas Forster		in 1375		Bishop of Gloucester	1731
Thomas Guldesfeld		in 1404	George Jordan		1731
John Bateman		1405	Henry Heaton		1754
Matthew Assheton		1408	Bladen Downing		1777
Philip Morgan		1413	Anthony Egerton Hammond		1789
	Bishop of Worcester	1419	William Wing Fowle		1802
	Bishop of Ely	1427	The Hon. Hugh Percy		1809
Senobius Naufer		1417		Dean of Canterbury	1825
Peter de Monte		in 1440		Bishop of Rochester	1827
Nicholas Risshton		1441		Bishop of Carlisle	1827
Robert Sturdy			George Robert Gleig		1822
John Goldstone		1492		Chaplain General to the Forces
Herman Tuleman		1504	Wm. Charles Lockwood Wingate		1880
John Clerke		1514	John Aaron Miller		1903
	Dean of Windsor	1519	Newcome Reginald Raven		1910
	Bishop of Bath & Wells	1523	George Hewitt		1932
John Stokesley		1524	William Rutherford		1949
	Bishop of London	1530	David Allan Pope		1963
Nicholas Wotton		1530	Nigel George O’Connor		1965
	First Dean of Canterbury	1542	Walter Littlewood		1975
	Dean of York	1544	John Mark Arnott Roberts		1982
John Armerar		1555	John Harold Coleman		1992
Andrew Peerson		1563
Henry Wayland		1589		PRIESTS-IN-CHARGE
Gervase Nidd		1614	Martin Nicholas Dale		2004
John Sandford		1615	James Lewis Field		2008
Thomas Jackson		1629
John Banks		1647