Tudeley
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Tonbridge
Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30,340 in 2007. It is located on the River Medway, approximately 4 miles north of Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles south west of Maidstone and 29 miles south east of London...
Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
in South East England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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It is the location of All Saints' church, the only church in the world that has all its windows in stained glass
Stained glass
The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...
designed by Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
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The East window
was commissioned by
Sir Henry and Lady D'Avigdor-Goldsmid
Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
Major-General Sir Henry Joseph "Harry" d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet DSO, MC, DL, TD , was a British army officer, company director and politician....
in memory of their
daughter Sarah who died in a boating accident in 1963. The other
windows were added later, the final ones being installed in 1985, the year
of Chagall's death.
Every year, All Saints' Tudeley receives thousands of visitors from all over the world. It is also the venue of The Tudeley Festival, an Early Music event which has been running since 1985.
Somerhill House
Somerhill House
Somerhill House is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion situated near Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom. It was built for Richard de Burgh in 1611–13. The estate was sequestrated by Parliament in 1645, and restored to its rightful owner in 1660. The building had become derelict by the mid-eighteenth...
, which houses The Schools at Somerhill
The Schools at Somerhill
The Schools at Somerhill is the title given to a group of schools located in Somerhill House, a Jacobean mansion situated to the south east of Tonbridge in Kent, England, but lying with the parish of Tudeley-cum-Capel. The three schools are Yardley Court, Derwent Lodge and Somerhill Pre-Prep...
, lies within the bounds of Tudeley.