Midhurst, W Sussex - Parish Church, Spread Eagle Inn - Judges postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Midhurst Parish Church, West Sussex - Paris Church (also shows the sign for the Spread Eagle Hotel)
• Publisher:  Judges (C8983X)
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Midhurst (/'m?d.h?rst/; Sussex dialect: Medhas /'m?d.h?s/) is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 4,889 in 2001.^[2] The town is situated on the River Rother and is home to the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House and the stately Victorian Cowdray Park. Country Life magazine rated Midhurst the second best town in England.^[3]

In the United Kingdom Census 2001 the parish covered 333 hectares and had 2,327 households with a total population of 4,889 of which 2,258 residents were economically active.^[2] In 1831 the population was 1,478; and 1,536 in 1841.

Midhurst developed at a strategic crossroads of what are now the A272 (east-west) and A286 (north-south) routes, important since at least Saxon and probably Roman times. After the Norman Conquest, Robert de Montgomery ordered the building of a motte-and-bailey castle on St Ann's Hill. This would also have served to protect the River Rother crossing. St Ann's Hill may also have been the site of an Iron Age fort.^[4]

Formerly standing within the grounds of Midhurst Castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denys was mentioned in 1291 and later in 1367 as standing, ""in a place called Courtgene"". The interior of the church has undergone much restoration and change and little evidence exists of its medieval heritage. Consisting of chancel and nave flanked by aisles on both sides, the church was largely rebuilt in the Perpendicular style in 1422, towards the end of Henry V's reign.

It would appear that the castle was dismantled by the Bishop of Durham sometime between 1284 and 1311. The earlier owners being the de Bohun family who abandoned the castle in favour of Cowdray in 1280.

In 1605 the owner of Cowdray House, Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, was briefly arrested in connection with the Gunpowder Plot. He was suspected as a plotter because he briefly employed Guy Fawkes as a footman and stayed away from Parliament on 5 November following a warning from Robert Catesby. He is buried in Midhurst Church.

The author and science fiction novelist H.G.Wells lived in Midhurst during the 1880s. He worked briefly as an apprentice at a chemist and a few years later he joined the Midhurst Grammar School where he was both a pupil and an assistant teacher.^[5]

Midhurst Deanery is a Deanery of the Church of England comprising 22 churches in the Rother Valley between Midhurst and Petersfield. The parish church for Midhurst is St Mary Magdalene and St Denys, in the market square, which retains some old parts on the south side. The base of the tower is 13th century. The tower top, south nave and chancel arcades are 16th century in the perpendicular style. The rest of the building is from 1882 or later.^[7][8]

The Divine Motherhood and St Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, Bepton Road, was built in 1957, replacing an earlier church still standing in Rumbolds Hill, by C.A. Buckler, built in 1869. It is built in sandstone in the shape of a segment of a circle with the rounded off point forming an eastern apse. The western arc is divided into seven sections by vertical stone fins, six of which are glazed, leaving the doorway in the central section with a Madonna and Child above. There is a circular skylight above the altar. The stations of the cross are carved on a continuous stone band along the side walls. There is a tall separate bell tower linked to the church by an open colonnade.^[9][10]

Midhurst Methodist Church is a flint masonry building with brick quoins standing to the north of the old grammar school buildings. A large Gothic style west window looks towards the ruins of Cowdray House.

type=printed

city/ region=midhurst

period=post-war (1945-present)

publisher=judges ltd

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number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)