🏴 Architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter is associated with Milton-next-Gravesend. The influence of Pugin and the Gothic Revival architects is evident in much of his work.
Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England, United Kingdom
🏴 Milton-next-Gravesend is an ecclesiastical parish in the north-west of Kent, England, which is now part of the Gravesend built-up area.
Feudal ownership of land in the parish was the subject of a legal action of 1076, Abbot Scotland v Hamo the Sherrif, leading to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury taking back its stake in ownership.
Neighbouring Gravesend became a town under Royal Charter in the 13th century and included Milton. The Church of England's founding was heralded by Henry VIII's split with Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries by which all of the abbots were retired, and their institutions' endowments – such as in this parish – were confiscated.
Until about the 1840s, much of the population was scattered in rural farmhouses, country houses and cottages or those living along the east side of the High Street and thus not in Gravesend parish. The boundary between the two parishes is along the middle of Gravesend's High Street (which puts the old Town Hall in Milton, not Gravesend) then Windmill Street and Singlewell Road. Just as Northfleet developed to the west of Gravesend, so decennial censuses record that this parish saw an almost fourfold increase in population between 1831 and 1901.
Europe/London/Kent
The Gravesham Borough has a population of over 106,939 people. Milton-next-Gravesend is situated near Gravesend.
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Richard Cromwell Carpenter |
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Rupert Savage |
:ENG Architect Rupert Savage is associated with Milton-next-Gravesend. He was President of the Birmingham and Five Counties Architectural Association from 1922 to 1924.
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