Caches in this series are:
SideTracked - Glynde
Church Micro #189 Glynde
Alpaca Corner
Mill Post View
Church Micro #220 Ringmer
Church Micro #221 Laughton
In each of these caches you will find a letter and a number on
the log book. Please make a note of them as they will be needed to
find:
GPG Drive By - Bonus
All
Saints, Laughton
The church and its rectory was founded by Gilbert d'Aquila,
awealthy baron owning a third of Sussex, in 1229. The baron also
built the nearby Michelham Priory, whose clergy were responsible
for the daily masses at Laughton. The priory was dissolved by Henry
VIII in 1536. In 1466, and for the next five hundred years,
successive members of the Pelham family were Lords of the Manor of
Laughton, adding many fine features to the church. In the fifteenth
century they had the tower erected and improved some of the windows
in the nave, and in the eighteenth century they rebuilt the
chancel. Under the chancel is the Pelham family vault where there
are 31 coffins, including those of two prime ministers and three
Earls of Chichester.Other benefactors to the church include members
of the Shoosmith family who donated three of the church bells and
served as churchwardens from 1694 to 1924. In 1883 the Victorians
removed the Georgian musicians' gallery, the box pews and the
three-decker pulpit, re-floored the nave, replaced the stone
roof
with slate and provided a new pipe organ. In front of the now
blocked north door an impressive war memorial was erected in 1921
in honour of the eighteen Laughton men killed in the Great War.The
striking war memorial in the nave was dedicated in 1921. Sculpted
in Italy of Carrara marble, it was paid for in Italian lira to take
advantage of the exchange rate at the time. Four names were added
following World War II. A tablet on the same wall records the death
of five people killed by a flying bomb in Shortgate.
If any body would
like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you
could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the
Church numbers and names to avoid Duplication