The Henson Journals
Mon 24 July 1911
Volume 17, Page 243
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Monday, July 24th, 1911.
I called on the Dean and had a short conversation. He was very glum, not having yet surmounted his resentment at being so summarily snuffed out in Convocation at my insistence.
We went to the Bank opposite the Cathedral gate, & were shown the plate – six communion cups of 1632 – belonging to the Huguenot Church. The Bank manager, Mr Russell, was an elder of the little church. He is a very foreign–looking man, & very obliging.
After lunch Mrs Spooner & Ruth motored us to Barfreston where we viewed the beautiful little Norman church, and then to Northbourne, where we viewed a delightful Tudor garden, rented by an artist, Waterfield – he & his wife both charming – & the parish church, in which is the pompous tomb of Sir Edwin Sandys, author of the 'Speculum Europae'. This part of Kent appears to be full of splendid flint–built churches, & old houses. In spite of the drought, the country had a very luxuriant aspect, the wheat crops standing ripe for the scythe.