The Quest for England
Today I talk to Peter Blee, rector of Berwick Church where there are some incredible paintings. The Bloomsbury paintings in Berwick Church are an unique and complete example of the decoration of the interior of a Grade I listed parish church in the UK by 20th century artists, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Quentin Bell. […]
I am seeking a church that is no longer there. With me is Cynthia Julian and Echo the whippet. We are walking to the Church of the Good Shepherd at Iping Marsh in West Sussex, near Midhurst. Here in the 1950s strange Satanic practices went on and soon after the church was demolished. My videos […]
The spooky location in today’s video is a churchyard with no church. I am joined by local historian Andrew Shaxson who explains the incredible and baffling history of St Peter’s church at Treyford in West Sussex. Little remains of the commodious Victorian edifice that was erected to replace three so-called ‘mean’ little churches. Although new […]
I am exploring the delightful Saxon church St Mary’s at Elsted in West Sussex. My guide is the ever enthusiastic local historian, Andrew Shaxson. Elsted is a village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies within the civil parish of Elsted and Treyford. The village is on the Midhurst to South Harting […]