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

8th August

Rupert Jones (piano)

APOLOGY

We sincerely apologise for the cancellation of Rupert Jones' concert.

Through circumstances beyond our immediate control, it had not been possible for the piano to be tuned and maintained as planned and sadly it was in an unplayable condition.


NEXT CONCERT

12 September

Classic Art Ensemble

Concert in Honour of St Eanswythe

Sabine Rössert-Koye Soprano, Francis Hagemann mezzo-Soprano, and Eva Herrmann Piano

A programme of vocal and piano music including
‘Quia respexit’ from Magnificat J. S. Bach
‘Prière C. Gounod
Romance in F sharp min. R . Schumann (piano)
Canzonetta sull`aria Duet from: Le nozze di Figaro Mozart

  

Concert in church

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26 September

Ross Winters (recorder) and Anthony Halstead (Harpsichord)

31 October

Rupert Jones (piano) plays

Beethoven - 32 Variations in C minor
Debussy - Images Bk 1
Reflets dans l'eau
Hommage à Rameau
Movement
Chopin - Scherzo in C sharp minor op 39
Bach-Busoni - Chaconne

5 December

The CCCU Cantata Choir performs a concert entitled 'Magnificat'.

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
 

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.

St Eanswythe
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.
St Eanswythe