The Archdeacon of Canterbury is a senior office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury (a division of the Church of England Province of Canterbury ). Like other archdeacons , he or she is an administrator in the diocese at large (having oversight of parishes in roughly one-third of the diocese) and is a canon residentiary of the cathedral .
10-678: Knowlton Court is a Grade I listed manor house near Goodnestone , Kent , England that dates back to the Elizabethan period. The present front façade in the Queen Anne style , was added in 1715. The Knowlton estate is recorded in the Domesday Book , during which time it belonged to Bishop Odo of Bayeux , the half-brother of William the Conqueror . The Knowlton estate was inherited in 1544 by John Peyton, MP. The present house
20-863: A "malignant". After heading a failed Royalist rising in Kent in May 1648, Sir Thomas was taken prisoner near Bury St Edmunds and committed to the Tower – and Knowlton Court was ransacked. He regained his status after the Restoration and became an MP in the Cavalier Parliament from 1661 to 1679, representing Kent . Sir Thomas, his wives, and Knowlton Court are mentioned in the published love letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1652 to 1654). After his death in 1684 in straightened financial circumstances, Sir Thomas' four daughters sold
30-459: Is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent , England. The village is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) east-southeast from the city of Canterbury , and 5 miles (8 km) west-southwest from Sandwich . The civil parish also contains the villages of Chillenden and Knowlton , and the hamlets of Rowling and Tickenhurst. Goodnestone's Grade I listed parish church of
40-523: Is privately owned but the main house is hired out for weddings and other events. The estate includes a number of other buildings including the Grade II listed Elizabethan dower house and a gatehouse designed by Edwin Landseer Lutyens in 1912. 51°14′00″N 1°15′58″E / 51.2334°N 1.2661°E / 51.2334; 1.2661 Goodnestone, Dover Goodnestone
50-627: The Holy Cross is in the Diocese and Archdeaconry of Canterbury and the Deanery of East Bridge . The church is set adjacent to Goodnestone Park, and dates from the 12th century, with additions and alterations to the 19th. Hussey and Rickman rebuilt the nave , chancel , and south porch in 1839–41. Within the church chancel is a 1752 monument by Peter Scheemakers to Brook Bridges (died 1717), of Goodnestone Park. A curate of Holy Cross
60-564: The Knowlton estate to Admiral Sir John Narborough . Knowlton Court estate remained the property of Admiral Sir John Narborough during the late 17th century. After Narborough had died at sea, leaving a widow and two sons , his wife married Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell , who also died at sea, along with his two Narborough stepsons, in the Scilly naval disaster of 1707 . His flagship, HMS Association , and three other ships were lost, claiming
70-578: The estate regularly during their early married life. Archdeacon of Canterbury The Archdeacon of Canterbury has an additional role, traditionally serving as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's representative at enthronement ceremonies for new diocesan bishops in his province . At these services, the archdeacon reads the archbishop's mandate and, taking the new bishops by the hand, conducts them to their episcopal throne. The archdeaconry and archdeacon of Canterbury have been in constant existence since
80-505: The lives of nearly 2,000 sailors. Shovell's stepsons, Sir John Narborough, 1st Baronet, and his brother James, are commemorated in Knowlton Church . The estate passed to the D'Aeth family in 1707, including Sir Thomas D'Aeth . The D’Aeth family owned it until 1904 when it was bought by Major Francis Elmer Speed (February 28, 1859 - August 23, 1928). He was High Sheriff of Kent and had two sons, John and Douglas. Knowlton Court
90-498: Was Herbert James, the father of Cambridge academic and ghost story writer M. R. James , who was born at Goodnestone Parsonage in 1862. At the south-west of the village is Goodnestone Park, a mansion with estate and gardens. Only the gardens are open to the public. The home was built in 1704 by Brook Bridges, 1st Baronet . Elizabeth, the daughter of the 1st Baronet's grandson Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet , married Jane Austen 's brother. Austen visited her brother and Elizabeth at
100-490: Was originally built in 1585 in red brick for his son Sir Thomas Peyton. He was succeeded in turn in 1611 by his only son Samuel, who became a baronet. During the late 17th century, Knowlton Court was home to the Royalist lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet , born in 1613. He was MP for Sandwich from 1640 to 1644, removed from Parliament after a spell in prison in 1643 and charged with, among other things, being
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