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Concerts at The Parish Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe Music on a Saturday Afternoon presented by Honorary President Rev. Dr. John WalkerChairman: Ian GordonConcert Secretary: Prof. Grenville HancoxHonorary Patron Mark SimpsonBayle Music |
Our Sunday Eucharist will be broadcast on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/sainteanswythe and on our YouTube page at ‘St Eanswythe’ For links to these sites and further information please see our church website https://stmaryandsteanswythe.org/ St Mary and St Eanswythe Church will be open to visitors and for silent prayer 11.00am to 1.00pm Wednesday to Saturday. Everyone is welcome to visit this significant historic church.
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The Bayle, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1SW United Kingdom A warm welcome awaits you in the beautiful space that is St Eanswythe’s Church, The Bayle, Folkestone CT201SW (consecrated 1138) Its magnificent acoustic together with the tranquil surrounds of the church, is very special, as so too are the artists appearing in this series. An exciting partnership is launched in this series between Bayle Music with Folkestone Early Music and Folkestone New Music offering performance of compositions from the seventeenth to twenty first centuries. Welcome to Bayle Music! Sounds Folkestone Website |
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Bayle Music Kindly Sponsored by
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Chistina and Norman Brisk
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Atherton Grassroots Fund
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As the 2022-23 season gets underway, once again, Bayle Music is extremely grateful to Fr John Walker, Parish Priest at St Mary & St Eanswythe’s and the Churchwardens for their support and encouragement in the presentation of our concerts. As restrictions on social gatherings are lifted, we will dispense with social distancing for audiences and recommend, but not demand, that masks be worn. We also ask that those who are not double vaccinated should have a negative Covid test in the 48 hours prior to the concert. Concert Programme 2023
Sacconi Festival Programme 2023 Friday 19 May at 7.00pm St Eansywthe's Church Sacconi Quartet Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte Haydn - String Quartet in B minor, Op.64, No. 2 Jonathan Dove – String Quartet, Vanishing Gold Dvorák – String Quartet in G major, Op. 106 Saturday 20 May at 7.00pm Eansywthe's Church Sacconi Quartet & RCM Chamber OrchestraSteve Reich - Clapping Music Arvo Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten Arvo Pärt - Fratres Jessie Montgomery - Strum Barber – Adagio for Strings Dvorák – American String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 (for String Orchestra) Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances |
Saturday 20 May at 9.30pm Quarterhouse, Tontine Street, Folkestone Alice Zawadzki (vocals, violin) and Fred Thomas (piano, d.bass) Jazz vocals and instrumentals Sunday 21 May at 3.00pm St Eanswythe's Church Guest pianist Tom Poster with members of the Sacconi Quartet Robert Schumann - Fünf Stücke im Volkston for cello and piano, Op. 102 Clara Schumann - Three Romances for Violin and Piano Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 47 Sunday 21 May at 7.00pm St Eanswythe's Church Tom Poster & Sacconi Quartet Beethoven – String Quartet in F major, Op. 135 Britten – String Quartet No.3, in G major, Op. 94 Dohnányi - Piano Quintet No. 1, in C minor, Op. 1 All enquiries for Bayle Music07723 767 624Tickets for Bayle Music Concerts are £15 unless otherwise stated.Advance online bookings for all Bayle Music events can be made here:https://www.soundsfolkestone.co.uk/initiatives/bayle-music/To be included in our email information list, please contact bayleman@gmail.com |
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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. |
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St Eanswythe's relics were re-discovered in 1885 during work in the Chancel and are now preserved in a 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 150 years after the Roman occupation ended. On 6 March in the presence of the Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover, Rev. Darren Miller Archdeacon of Ashford, Rev Dr John Walker, parish priest, the Mayor of Folkestone and a packed church Dr Andrew Richardson of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust announced that the detailed investigation of the relics carried out in January 2020 proved conclusively that they were the relics of St Eanswythe herself. |
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Crowthers
of Canterbury (Wind Instruments)
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