This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...Betty Bolaine, who was buried in the church in 1805. Some incised brasses "disappeared" during the process of demolition. Two of these, the oldest figured brasses in Canterbury, were in memory of Christopher Klook, and his wife Margareta. The earliest bore date 1494. The church had a Norman font, which, on its ceasing to be used, was presented to the parish church of River, near Dover. Of the three bells, one was transferred to the sister church of St. George to complete the peal; the other two were sold, at a nominal price, to Bishop Kestell Cornish for churches in Madagascar. In a house close to the church, "Tom Ingoldsby" (Rev. R. H. Barham) the author of the "Ingoldsby Legends," was born. William Gray, a relative of Stephen Gray, the first discoverer of electrical conduction, was buried in this church in 1714. He had been sixty years in the city Council. #-ASTED speaks of St. Paul's as a small mean building, but much has been done, since his day, to enlarge and beautify the church. Its pointed arches and round pillars are Early English, but the oldest windows belong to the late pointed style. There are three piscinas in the chancel and the north aisle; the roof is panelled; the tower contains three bells. In the reign of Henry III. the Rectory of the parish belonged to Hamo Doge, who endowed the Vicarage and founded the Chantry, of which the name survives in Chantry Lane. The living was settled by Henry VIII. on his new Dean and Chapter, and remained with them until its union with St. Martin's in 1681. It was then arranged that the presentation should alternately be made by the Archbishop and the Dean and Chapter. The church had no burial ground of its own, and the parishioners used that of St. Augustine's Abbey until 1591, ...
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