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 St. James 2006 - click to enlarge |
St. James church
Heyshott, West Sussex Revd Chris Boxley The Rectory, Heyshott, Midhurst West Sussex - GU29 0DH 01730 814405 boxley@talktalk.net c_boxley@yahoo.co.uk map of Heyshott & Cocking |
Photo Gallery - - Plan of church - - Richard Cobden - - Memorial window - - font Headstones - - August 1995, Crooks steal church registers - - 1904 Photo of St. James
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A chapel is known to have existed in Heyshott before 1144. The church of Heyshott was presumably founded as a chapel to that of Stedham; it was so styled in 1291 and it continued attached to Stedham until 1882, when it was constituted an independent rectory in the gift of the bishop of Chichester. Over the south door is the Royal Arms as borne 1714–1800. Of the three bells the oldest may be ascribed to William Founder (c. 1400), another to Anthony Wakefield (d.1605), and the third is by William Eldridge, 1671. The registers begin in 1690. [source: 'Heyshott', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester (1953), pp. 60-3.] |
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The font dates from the early 13thc. It is located at the W end of the nave. The bowl forms a transition from a square at its base to a circle, with a prominent moulded rim, at the top. On each corner of the square is a moulded capital. The result is a tub font with a spade-shape carved on four sides. The interior is lead lined. A piece of the central shaft, with a drain hole drilled through the centre, is kept inside the bowl. The capitals now stand directly upon a low, square, chamfered plinth rather than upon shafts, which would have been the original arrangement.
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photo - Ms Kathryn Burrington click for English Heritage |
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Richard Cobden regularly worshipped in Heyshott church His pew was immediately beneath the pulpit, in which this small brass plate may be noticed. 
Photo:- Pam Hadley 2007 - click to enlarge 
St James, c.1904 St. James photo gallery - - - Memorial window - - - Headstones at St. James |