May 9th, 2017

Newhaven to Totnes - Lancing College Chapel - Arundel

Our final morning with Misty, Newhaven

Lancing College and Chapel
Church Micro 8588


Lancing Chapel from the South East	Cloisters of Lancing Chapel 100 ft long Memorial Cloister with 7-bays. Vaulting ornamented with fan tracery, dedicated 1927	Lancing College Chapel is one of the tallest interior-vaulted churches in the United Kingdom. The apex of the vaulting rises to 90 ft	Lancing Chapel Quire Stall. The canopies were designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott


Lancing Chapel Apse Tapestries were designed by Amy Akers-Douglas, wife of 2nd Viscount Chilston in 1933	Tomb of Nathaniel Woodard Lancing Chapel	Lancing Chapel The chapel was designed by R.H. Carpenter and William Slater. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid in 1868	Oxford Lectern Bible Designed by Bruce Rogers. This is one of 200 Bibles printed by Oxford University Press, 1935 by special command of King George V


Lancing Chapel Ceiling painted by Campbell Smith & Co., 1978 The west end was originally designed by Stephen Dykes Bower and constructed between 1960 and 2017	Lancing Chapel The Nave stretches 10 bays and terminates in an Apse	Poppyhead Lancing Chapel	High Altar and Apse Lancing Chapel	Rose Window by Arthur Edward Buss. Organ by J.W. Walker, 1914. The Rose Window has over 30,000 pieces of stained glass and is 32 ft in diameter. It is one of the largest Rose Windows in England Lancing Chapel

Lancing College and Chapel
The Chapel is an example of Gothic Revival Architecture.
It was designed by R.H Carpenter and William Slater


1. Lady Chapel Window by Goddard & Gibbs, 1981 2. 3. Nathaniel Woodard’s Chantry Chapel 4. 'St Nicholas', 1927


'Nicholas of Bari with Two Children and the Virgin Mary' Copy of a picture by Alessandro Bonvicino, 1539 Lancing Chapel	'St Peter' By Alonso Cano Lancing Chapel	'St Mary and St Nicholas', Applique Work Beati Mundo Corde (Blessed are the pure in heart) Lancing College motto	'The Holy Family' by Sebastiano Del Piombo (born Sebastiano Luciani) Lancing Chapel	'La Madonna Della Sedia' by Raffaelle Sanzio Lancing Chapel


Entrance to the Crypt Lancing Chapel	Window in Memory of Bishop Trevor Huddleston, a pupil at Lancing College 1927 – 1931 Designed by Mel Howse and dedicated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 2006 Lancing Chapel	Gillian at the North Entrance Lancing Chapel


Coombes Church, West Sussex Church Micro 1756	Wall Paintings on the West Wall of the Chancel were found in 1949 Coombes Church, West Sussex	'Lion of St Mark' surrounded by the Symbols of the Evangelists Coombes Church, West Sussex	Christ gives the Keys to St Peter and the Book to St Paul Coombes Church, West Sussex


Early C12th Wall Paintings, Coombes Church, West Sussex Throughout the church there are numerous wall paintings. On the North wall Joseph is shown leading a donkey bearing Mary and Jesus and on the South side are traces of a Nativity. Herod on his throne is shown with his advisers and a group of Jews represents those who were sceptical about the true paternity of Jesus


Arundel Castle	A lunch time stop with a view of Arundel Castle	Arundel Castle was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor and completed by Roger de Montgomery.


Black-headed Gull, Arundel

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