Concerts at The Parish Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe

The Bayle, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1SW United Kingdom

Music on a Sunday Afternoon

Sponsored by Canterbury Christ Church University and The Folkestone Creative Foundation

All concerts start at 3pm

17 January POSTPONED

Natasha Tyrimos, Thomas Liddle and Megumi Yamanoi

Piano Recital by CCCU Postgraduates

14 February

CCCU Wind Orchestra

Programme to include excerpts from ‘The Mighty Voice’ by Paul Patterson and John Williams’ film score ‘Star Wars’.

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14 March

CCCU Cantata Choir

Brahms' Requiem (in the composer’s version for two piano accompaniment)

  

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25 April

Ariodante Ensemble
Baroque Music on authentic instruments.
Led by Anthony Halstead (harpsichord) & Sara Hale (soprano)

23rd May

Classic Arts Ensemble
A welcome return by our friends from Germany

27 June

Alea Quartet with Grenville Hancox
programme to include Mozart Clarinet Quintet

4 July

Ariodante Ensemble
Baroque Music on authentic instruments.
Led by Anthony Halstead (harpsichord) & Sara Hale (soprano) & August Rupert Jones (piano) programme to be confirmed

8th August

Rupert Jones (piano)
Music by Beethoven, Rachmaninov & Lutoslawski

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Tickets will be available on the door from 2.15pm on the day of each concert and seats for all concerts can be reserved in advance by calling 01303 220 870 Mon-Fri 9.30am-3pm; 01303 257 248 evenings and weekends.

Tickets £8 unless otherwise indicated. Children & students in full-time education free.

To be added to our email or postal list for regular updates please contact Ian Gordon 01303 257 248 or email n_grdn@yahoo.co.uk

Other Concerts at St Eanswythe

Tuesday 25th May 7.30pm
Singakademie, Stuttgart. Semi-professional Chamber Choir.

Wednesday 9 June 7.30pm
Canterbury Three Cities 25th Anniversary Concert.

Performers from Canterbury, Bloomington, Illinois, US and Vladimir, Russia performing a specially commissioned string trio by Matthew Brown, the brilliant young local composer as well as several favourites. More details will be available in the near future.

Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in Folkestone May 2010

About St Eanswythe and Folkestone's old Parish Church

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.

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St Eanswythe

  St Eanswythe's relics were re-discovered in 1885 during work in the Chancel and are now kept in 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 300 years after the Roman occupation ended.
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