Church Micro St Andrews Church Horbling
The Church
Horbling parish church is Grade I listed and dedicated to St Andrew. The church is of cruciform construction in Norman, Early English and later styles. It comprises a chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts and embattled tower with pinnacles and 5 bells. The chancel contains a piscina and sedilia, and Norman arcading in the west front. The tower, owing to bad foundations was successively rebuilt or repaired in transitional, Early English and early Decorated periods. The north aisle and transept are late Decorative, as is the font. The south aisle and transept, and clerestory, are Perpendicular. Stained glass in the west window was added in 1854 as testimonial to Benjamin Smith (1776-1857), local solicitor and promoter of charities, who paid for the 1852 restoration of church. The south transept holds memorials to the Brown family. In the north transept is a mid-14th-century monument with effigies of knight and lady, with the arms of De La Maine. Above these effigies is a lunette containing a relief of Christ's resurrection, flanked by two figures.Pevsner also notes two 1706 patens by John Cory, a 1713 flagon by Humphrey Payne, a 1840 alms dish attributable to John Crouch, and a brass plate designed by Pugin, who also perhaps designed the brass to Benjamin Wilkinson (d.1848). Marrat, in 1816, recorded: "The inside of the church is not in good repair, There are some very indiferent stalls, and scarcely any pews".
The Cache
You are looking for a 35mm Film canister, please replace as best you can securely. As always BYOP and PARK SAFELY & LEGALLY
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