. The New England historical and genealogical register. ranted. One lovely dayin the middle of July I started for Maidstone with my brother JudgeBancroft Davis and his wife. That town itself is queer and quaintenough to justify a visit, but there is no time to describe it here. AtMaidstone we took a conveyance for East Fairleigh, distant abouttwo miles. It may be reached by rail direct, but the hours of thosetrains were less convenient to us. The village, if there is any, isnot near the church ; there being at that point orly the church, theschool-house, a public house, and a few dwellings str
. The New England historical and genealogical register. ranted. One lovely dayin the middle of July I started for Maidstone with my brother JudgeBancroft Davis and his wife. That town itself is queer and quaintenough to justify a visit, but there is no time to describe it here. AtMaidstone we took a conveyance for East Fairleigh, distant abouttwo miles. It may be reached by rail direct, but the hours of thosetrains were less convenient to us. The village, if there is any, isnot near the church ; there being at that point orly the church, theschool-house, a public house, and a few dwellings strung along theroad at long intervals. The road winds about the base of a gently 1888.] Church at East Fairhigh—Dolor Davis. 2s;; eloping liill at a short distance from the Medway River, in the midstof what is one of the loveliest parts of England, and when we werethere the brilliant green of hill and meadow diversified by orchards,hedges and hop-fields, with here and there a cottage nestled amongthe trees, formed a scene unsurpassed for quiet PARISH CHURCH EAST FAIRLEIOH, CO. KENT. The church stands in the middle of a burial ground, at an angleof the road, the chancel being nearest the road, while the tower andfront entrance of the church are at the farther end. It is a venera-ble gray stone structure, low and broad and not very large. Thetower at the front end is the oldest part of the building, and is aplain square Norman tower, surmounted by a low Norman squarespire. The door and windows in the tower have been altered overinto pointed arches, but the opening from it into the church still retains the round Norman arch with the characteristic zi^-zng curate told us that the tower was erected in 1067 ; it could nothave been later. I was unable to learn when the rest of the churchwas built, but it was undoubtedly some hundreds of years old when Dolor Davis and Margery Willard stood before its altar. There is ? a porch on the south side which I thought seem
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