{"id":3096,"date":"2015-05-22T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:00:32","slug":"vm_365-day-327-the-treasury-st-johns-church-margate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 327 The Treasury, St John’s Church, Margate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s image for Day 327 of the VM_365 project shows the Treasury which was constructed on the north east corner of the parish church of St John the Baptist, Margate which featured on Day 324 of the VM_365 project.<\/a><\/p>\n

This single storey addition to the church was constructed around 1500 AD from coursed Ragstone and incorporating a crenellated parapet and traceried windows.\u00a0 The Ragstone is a distinctly different building material to the rest of the church and was shipped in from the Maidstone area; the rest of the church is constructed mainly of flint which was easily obtainable locally.<\/p>\n

Although originally built to be the church treasury, for the storage of the church’s valuables, this structure was later adapted to store shot and gunpowder for the town fort and was also used by the Churchwardens to administer poor relief for the parish. In the early 18th century it became the church vestry.<\/p>\n

References\/Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berg, M. and Jones, H.\u00a0 2009. Norman Churches in the Canterbury Diocese<\/em>. The History Press.<\/p>\n

Colyer, R. 2012. The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Margate. A short guide.<\/em> http:\/\/www.stjohnschurchmargate.org.uk\/churchfamily-history\/the-parish-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-margate-a-short-guide-5\/<\/p>\n

Historic England 2015. The National Heritage List for Britain:<\/em> The Parish Church of St John the Baptist. List entry no.1351103<\/span>.<\/em> http:\/\/list.historicengland.org.uk\/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1351103&searchtype=mapsearch<\/p>\n

Scurrell, D. 1982. The Book of Margate.<\/em> Barracuda Books.<\/p>\n

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Today’s image for Day 327 of the VM_365 project shows the Treasury which was constructed on the north east corner of the parish church of St John the Baptist, Margate which featured on Day 324 of the VM_365 project. This single storey addition to the church was constructed around 1500 AD from coursed Ragstone and … Continue reading VM_365 Day 327 The Treasury, St John’s Church, Margate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,59,15,23,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-churches","category-margate","category-medieval","category-post-medieval","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}