The Reverend Bryan Faussett (1720-1776) was a wealthy Kent clergyman who pioneered archaeology in Kent and excavated and recorded scores of sites in parishes in close proximity to Nonington. These excavations were recorded in “Inventorium Sepulchrale: an Account of Some Antiquities Dug Up at Gilton, Kingston, Sibertswold, Barfriston, Beakesbourne, Chartham, and Crundale, in the County […]
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The Reverend Frederick Chalmers and his orphanage at the Nonington Vicarage
The Reverend Frederick Chalmers, 1860. Captain Frederick Chalmers, an Indian Army officer who had been born in Nova Scotia in what is now Canada, returned to England in 1842 after serving as Superintendent of Mysore in India to take Holy Orders. He was accompanied by his young son whose mother had died when he was […]
The settlement and church at Oesewalum: the origins of Nonington.
St. Mary’s Church appears to have been built in the original manorial settlement that became Nonington proper and it is likely that a chapel had been founded there during the ownership of Oesewalum by at least two abbesses of the Benedictine Abbeys of Minster on the Isle of Thanet and Southminster at Lyminge from the […]