Up Marden, W, Sussex near Chichester - St. Michael Church - art card

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• Picture / Image:  St. Michael, Up Marden  [this is in West Sussex, near Chichester]
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• Notes / condition:  NB card has blank back but is modern postcard size and probably intended as postcard

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Up Marden is a small village in the parish of Compton in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. The former parish was incorporated into the civil parish of Compton in 1933. It is on the South Downs 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Chichester, close to East Marden and North Marden. There are neolithic and Roman sites in the area. Recorded history of the settlement starts in the 10th century and a church was in existence by 1121. The present church building is of Norman style construction and the church has remained almost unchanged. It has been described as having one of the loveliest interiors in England. The landscape, which is protected within the South Downs National Park, is based on chalk rock strata formed in the Late Cretaceous.

No church was mentioned at Marden in the Domesday Survey, only those at Compton and Stoughton. Before 1121 however Up Marden church had been given, along with Stoughton church, to Lewes Priory by Savaric fitz-Cane.^[16] St Michael's Church stands 500 feet (150 metres) above sea level on a ridge where it is approached along a farm track. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as having one of the loveliest interiors in England the church is all of 13th century construction. The triangular chancel arch between chancel and unaisled nave is a 16th century repair to the original 13th century arch. The walls and wagon roofs are plastered and the floors of brick. The windows are large simple lancets, with the east window consisting of three together under a rere-arch. The tower has a weatherboarded bell chamber. The chancel contains a trefoil headed piscina. A more recent feature for such an ancient church is the Victorian stone pulpit with ogee-panelled sides which, in Pevsner's opinion, fits in perfectly.^[17] In 1628 a bell was cast for the church by bell founders Thomas Wakefield and Bryan Eldridge.^[18] There were also two other bells, one dated 1620 and one unmarked, but all three have been taken down because of weakness in the bell tower.^[5]

In a topographical dictionary of 1833 the living at Up Marden church is shown as a curacy subordinate to the vicarage of Compton.^[6]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=sussex

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted