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Sandling, Maidstone
Sandling is a hamlet to the north of the town of Maidstone, Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It falls within the parish of Boxley.
Notable buildings in the hamlet include the remains of the twelfth century Boxley Abbey, the Hospitium or Boxley Abbey Barn, the fifteenth century gatehouse chapel of St Andrew's, the headquarters of the Kent Wildlife Trust at Tyland Barn, and Kent Life open-air museum.
Sandling's sign was erected to mark Boxley Parish Council’s centenary (1895-1995) and is based on ideas submitted by Sandling County Primary School pupils in 1993. It depicts Boarley Oast, the North Downs, the River Medway and Tyland Barn.
Several Stone Age sites border the hamlet, including Kit's Coty House, Little Kit's Coty House, Smythe's Megalith, the Coffin Stone and the White Horse Stone.
The fields in and around Sandling are primarily used for viticulture. Chapel Down tend 156 acres of vines at Boarley Farm.
Boxley Abbey in Sandling was a Cistercian monastery founded circa 1146 CE by William of Ypres.
It was well-known for a relic called the Rood of Grace, a wooden cross with a Jesus figure that was said to move and speak. In 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a commissioner sent by Thomas Cromwell examined the Rood of Grace and declared it fake, pointing out the levers and wires that enacted the movement.
The rood was taken down and displayed in Maidstone market so as to demonstrate the purported fraud. It was later sent to London where it was hacked to pieces in front of St Paul's Cathedral and burnt.
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Sandling, Maidstone
Sandling is a hamlet to the north of the town of Maidstone, Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It falls within the parish of Boxley.
Notable buildings in the hamlet include the remains of the twelfth century Boxley Abbey, the Hospitium or Boxley Abbey Barn, the fifteenth century gatehouse chapel of St Andrew's, the headquarters of the Kent Wildlife Trust at Tyland Barn, and Kent Life open-air museum.
Sandling's sign was erected to mark Boxley Parish Council’s centenary (1895-1995) and is based on ideas submitted by Sandling County Primary School pupils in 1993. It depicts Boarley Oast, the North Downs, the River Medway and Tyland Barn.
Several Stone Age sites border the hamlet, including Kit's Coty House, Little Kit's Coty House, Smythe's Megalith, the Coffin Stone and the White Horse Stone.
The fields in and around Sandling are primarily used for viticulture. Chapel Down tend 156 acres of vines at Boarley Farm.
Boxley Abbey in Sandling was a Cistercian monastery founded circa 1146 CE by William of Ypres.
It was well-known for a relic called the Rood of Grace, a wooden cross with a Jesus figure that was said to move and speak. In 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a commissioner sent by Thomas Cromwell examined the Rood of Grace and declared it fake, pointing out the levers and wires that enacted the movement.
The rood was taken down and displayed in Maidstone market so as to demonstrate the purported fraud. It was later sent to London where it was hacked to pieces in front of St Paul's Cathedral and burnt.