The Bloomsbury Paintings at Berwick Church in East Sussex

The Bloomsbury Paintings at Berwick Church in East Sussex

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. […]

Aleister Crowley and the Satanists of Iping Marsh

Aleister Crowley and the Satanists of Iping Marsh

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 Curse of St Peter’s at Treyford in West Sussex Explored

The Curse of St Peter's at Treyford in West Sussex Explored

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 […]

Saving a Sussex Downland Saxon Church – St Mary’s at Elsted

Elsted Church

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 […]