Concerts at The Parish Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe

Music on a Saturday Afternoon presented by

Honorary President Rev. Dr. John Walker

Chairman: Ian Gordon

Concert Secretary: Prof. Grenville Hancox

Honorary Patron Mark Simpson

Bayle Music

Our Sunday Eucharist will be broadcast on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/sainteanswythe

and on our YouTube page at ‘St Eanswythe’ For links to these sites and further information please see our church website https://stmaryandsteanswythe.org/

St Mary and St Eanswythe Church will be open to visitors and for silent prayer 11.00am to 1.00pm, Wednesday to Saturday.

Everyone is welcome to visit this significant historic church.

Finding Eanswythe: The life and afterlife of an Anglo-Saxon saint

https://findingeanswythe.uk/

The Bayle, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1SW United Kingdom

A warm welcome awaits you in the beautiful space that is St Eanswythe’s Church, The Bayle, Folkestone CT201SW (consecrated 1138) Its magnificent acoustic together with the tranquil surrounds of the church, is very special, as so too are the artists appearing in this series. An exciting partnership is launched in this series between Bayle Music with Folkestone Early Music and Folkestone New Music offering performance of compositions from the seventeenth to twenty first centuries.

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Bayle Music Kindly Sponsored by
 
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Atherton Grassroots Fund
   

Folkestone Bandstand Concerts 2024

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Concerts at the Green Room, The Grand

 

Saturday 16 March 3 pm

Ryan Corbett (accordion) BBC New Generation Young Artist

Born in Glasgow in 1999, Ryan Corbett is a classical accordionist who has been described as “one of Scotland's most exciting young musicians”. He is a Tillet Debut scheme artist, Munster Trust Recital Scheme artist and the first accordionist to be part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme since its launch in 1999. Ryan was awarded the Keyboard Prize, first prize and Gold Medal at the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition; first prize at the Bromsgrove International Musicians' competition and prizes at international accordion competitions in Italy, Germany, and China.

Admission £10 per head

Advance Booking

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bayle-music

https://www.soundsfolkestone.co.uk/initiatives/bayle-music/

Leas Cliff Hall

FOLKESTONE CHORAL SOCIETY

Saturday 24 March 7.30pm

The programme: Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace Fauré  - Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine.

Tickets are priced at £18, £21 and £25 and can be purchased online at www.atgtickets.com/folkestone

 

Saturday 20 April 3 pm

The Kentish Piano Trio

 

Saturday, May 4 th at 7pm

The Folkestone Baroque Players

Playing Handel, Telemann, Couperin, Buxtehude, Matteis and Boismortier on period instruments

Tickets £12

 

Concert in church

 

At St Mary & St Eanswythe Parish Church

 

17-19 May 2024 Sacconi Festival

Full details in the new year

 

Saturday 22 June 3 pm

Caritas Chamber Choir

 

Saturday 20 July 2024

Walter Reiter -Baroque violin

 

Saturday 24 August 2024

Heather Sargerson and Marianne Kelly Piano Duet

 

Saturday 21 September

To be announced

 

All enquiries for Bayle Music

07723 767 624

Tickets for Bayle Music Concerts are £15 unless otherwise stated.

Advance online bookings for all Bayle Music events can be made here:

https://www.soundsfolkestone.co.uk/initiatives/bayle-music/

To be included in our email information list, please contact bayleman@gmail.com

Christian worship has been offered on or near this site since 630 AD when Eadbald, King of Kent, built a convent and church for his daughter Eanswythe - believed to be the first religious house with an abbess in the country. His father, King Ethelbert, had welcomed St Augustine and his monks in 597.  Eanswythe died in about 640 AD and was made a saint soon after. Her relics became a focus of pilgrimage and in 1138 were brought into the present church (the fourth to occupy this site) on 12 September - the date we still keep as our Patronal Festival.
 
In the 11th century the Priory was established but was suppressed like almost all the others, by Henry VIII in 1534 and the church entered a long period of neglect and decline.
 
Canon Matthew Woodward, vicar from 1851 to 1898, transformed it into the beautiful church you see today, with stained glass, murals and mosaics of the highest quality.

St Eanswythe

The Parish Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe

  St Eanswythe's relics were re-discovered in 1885 during work in the Chancel and are now preserved in a niche behind a brass grill in the north wall of Sanctuary of the High Altar, close by Woodward's memorial brass plate. They provide an inspiring link with the far-off days of Pope Gregory and St Augustine and the return of Christianity to Britain 150 years after the Roman occupation ended.

On 6 March in the presence of the Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover, Rev. Darren Miller Archdeacon of Ashford, Rev Dr John Walker, parish priest, the Mayor of Folkestone and a packed church Dr Andrew Richardson of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust announced that the detailed investigation of the relics carried out in January 2020 proved conclusively that they were the relics of St Eanswythe herself.

St Eanswythe

Crowthers of Canterbury (Wind Instruments)
 

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