May 8th, 2017
Falmer - Glynde - Beddingham - West Firle
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Falmer Village Pond is home to a population of
ducks and geese.
Falmer is Old English for 'fallow (pale-coloured) pond' |
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A restoration of 1840 was responsible for the unusual
Neo-Norman appearance of this church, which was rebuilt between 1815
and 1817 from the demolished ruins of its medieval predecessor
St Laurence, Falmer Church Micro 1001 |
Gilded Clock
St Laurence, Falmer |
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Village Sign of Beddingham and Glynde
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Glynde
Place
Glynde Place is an Elizabethan Manor House at Glynde in East Sussex. It is the family home of the Viscounts Hampden, whose forebears built the house in 1569. The square house with an inner courtyard was built of Sussex flint and stone from Caen by William Morley |
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Front Entrance to Glynde Place
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St
Mary's Church, Glynde |
Richard
Trevor, Bishop of Durham, considerably altered the house. On
the walls of knapped flint he erected two wyverns, the heraldic dragons
of the Trevors
Glynde Place, East Sussex |
West Gallery with Organ
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Hatchment to Henry
Otway Trevor, Lord Dacre, 1853
St Mary's Church, Glynde |
Coved ceiling with a plaster centrepiece and walls
covered in reddish brown Damask fabric St Mary's Church, Glynde |
Funerary Hatchment
St Mary's Church, Glynde |
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Memorial Windows to members of the Hampden family
with reset Flemish glass.
Kempe and Co., carried out the work between 1894 and 1916 St Mary's Church, Glynde |
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Panels of Flemish glass inserted into the restyled
Kempe windows
St Mary's Church, Glynde |
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Gillian finds a well hidden cache on
the South Down Way at Glynde |
Suffolk sheep on the
South Down Way at Glynde |
Glyndebourne
Wind Turbine
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Gillian finds the Glyndebourne Wind Turbine View
cache
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1. 'Crucifixion' in Memory of Sophia Selina Gage
d.1866
by J Powell and Sons designed by H. Holiday, 1887
2. St
Peter's Church, West Firle
The oldest part of the church dates from about 1200. A crenellated tower with buttresses stands at the west end. Adjoining the Chancel is a Chapel for members of the Gage baronetcy 3. 'The Tree of Life' in honour of the 6th Vicount Gage by John Piper, 1985 St Peter's Church, West Firle |
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Gillian adds a ribbon to the tree
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
Ribbons tied to a wishing tree
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
I added this one
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
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Monumental Brasses to members
of the Gage family St Peter's Church, West Firle |
St Peter's Church, West Firle
Alabaster effigy of Sir John Gage wearing his Order of the Garter and lying beside his wife Philippa |
Monumental Brasses to members
of the Gage family St Peter's Church, West Firle |
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Bartholomew Bolney Brass, 1476
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
George Gage Brass, late C16th St Peter's,
West Firle |
Thomas and Elizabeth Gage
Brass, 1590 St Peter's, West Firle |
Mary Howard, daughter of William 4th Lord Eure
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
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C.E.Kempe
Stained Glass Window
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
Tapestry Kneelers
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
C.E.Kempe Stained Glass Window
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
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Tapestry Kneelers
St Peter's Church, West Firle |
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