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Tours > Sussex Churches > Warminghurst
Holy Sepulchre - Warminghurst
TQ 117169; Five Miles North-West of Steyning
This isolated and windswept church is cared for by The
Churches Conservation Trust. Its main fabric is of the thirteenth century but
the interior is that of a church in the time of Jane Austen, having been
remodelled in the early eighteenth century. Until the widespread nineteenth
century restorations of our churches they would all have had this feel to them.
The pine box pews and high pulpit with reading desk give importance to the nave
instead of the chancel emphasising the preaching of the word over the sacrament
of communion. The division between nave and chancel is made by a wooden screen
over which the Royal Arms of Queen Anne are painted. High on the wall are
hatchments and a few hanging monuments. On the wall of the chancel is a Purbeck
marble monument with bras inlaid portraits of Edward Shelley, his wife, seven
sons and three daughters. It dates from 1554 and should be compared to the
similar monument at Slaugham.
Next Stop: Itchingfield
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