Benchmark - St Mary the Virgin - Newington, Kent
Posted by: SMacB
N 51° 21.397 E 000° 40.392
31U E 337993 N 5692053
A cut benchmark on the entrance porch to St Mary's church, Newington.
Waymark Code: WMQ6CN
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/29/2015
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A cut benchmark on the left of the church porch as you look at the entrance to St Mary's church, Newington. A larger than usual mark.
"Newington comes from the Old English ‘tun’ meaning an ‘enclosure, a farmstead, a village’ with ‘niwe’ as ‘new’; therefore, the ‘new farm/settlement’. The Domesday Book chronicles Newington as Neutone/Newetone.
Newington church is a Grade: I listed building, dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin. It dates to the 13th century with extensions and additions in the following 200 years. In 1662, John Wilnar cast and hung a ring of six bells in the tower. In 1798, Edward Hasted described St Mary’s church as a ‘handsome building, consisting of three isles and two chancels, with a square beacon tower at the west end. On the north side of the high chancel is the lower part of a square tower, which reaches at present no higher than the roof of the church, where it has a flat covering. There was some good painted glass formerly in the windows of this church’. The Victorians carried out restoration work in the 19th century."
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