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Anglican church architecture, and was committed to its study and application. Over the course of five years from March 1840 he directed substantial alterations "in accordance with Ecclesiological principles", with particular emphasis on the interior, the east end and the chancel. Beresford
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was commissioned to design the church. The result was a plain Gothic "sandstone box" of little architectural merit: architectural historian Roger Homan states that the work subsequently undertaken at the direction of
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Goudhurst as having 2,850 residents but only one
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