Graffham & Selham Churches, West Sussex, UK - part of The Rother Valley Guide

The Rother Valley
West Sussex, England
Graffham & Selham
Churches

Graffham & Selham Churches
West Sussex

St. Giles, Graffham - St. James, Selham

St. Giles
The Street, Graffham

At present @April 2010
Rev. Stephen Gray vicar of Saint Giles Church, Graffham
and Chaplain to Seaford College
01798 867533

Graffham had a church in 1086 and was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
The church stands at the extreme south end of the village, under the Downs. Its shingled spire was renovated in 2006 as shown in the gallery photos. Major rebuilding was carried out and completed in 1875 as a memorial to Bishop Wilberforce. The tower, considered unsafe, was pulled down, and rebuilt

in 1887, spire added 1889. The doorlock is very elaborate. The lock is perfect; the handles are in the form of the heads of a king and of a lady wearing a horned head-dress.

There are three bells:
one, of the 15th century, inscribed—SANCTA KATERINA ORA PRO NOBIS;
another cast by Thomas Wakefield and Roger Tapsell in 1621;
the third by Bryan Eldridge, 1642.
The registers begin in 1655.
source - 'Graffham', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester 1953

St. Giles photo gallery
St Giles churchyard & headstones
church near you
Stained Glass Windows at St. Giles
Images of England - English Heritage
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture
Aerial photo showing St. Giles
map - ref: N460
churches index

St. James

Rother Valley Trail link

St Giles Church @2010
Rector - 28 Apr 2010
New Rector for Graffham

Churchwardens
John Bellis 01798 867444
Alan Sargent 01798 867460
PCC sec Diane Bellis 01798 867444

Bellringing:
contact: Hilary Major 01798 867238

St. James
Selham

Revd Derek Welsman
spring 2008
The Rectory, Lodsworth, GU28 9DE
01798 861274

church near you
English Heritage
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture

click for photos incl. interior
churches index
headstones at St James
Rother Valley Trail link

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