Lyminster
| Lyminster | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 St Mary Magdalene parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ025047 |
| Location: | 50°49’59"N, 0°32’46"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 369 (2011) |
| Post town: | Littlehampton |
| Postcode: | BN17 |
| Dialling code: | 01903 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Arun |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Arundel and South Downs |
Lyminster is a little village in Sussex, in the meadows on the east side of the tidal River Arun. It is two miles from the sea, and just north of the edge of Littlehampton's townscape.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church, St Mary Magdalene is an 11th-century Saxon[1] building and a Grade I listed building.[2]
The church has a ring of six bells. Lester and Pack of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble, second and fourth bells in 1759.[3] John Warner and Sons of Cripplegate, London cast the third and fifth bells in 1887,[3] the year of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1950.[3]
Pubs
Lyminster has a large pub, The Six Bells.[4]
Crossbush has a large restaurant on the corner of Crossbush Lane.[5]
History
According to the Hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript the village is the burial place of Saint Cuthflæd of Lyminster.[6][7]
Folklore
Just to the north of the village is a knuckerhole which, according to legend, was home to a dragon, the Knucker. The church contains a tombstone called the Slayer's Slab, supposed to be from the tomb of the dragonslayer.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 121.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1027604: The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalen (Grade I listing)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rix, Geoff (6 July 2012). "Lyminster S Mary Magd". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Lyminster&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=LYMINSTER.
- ↑ The Six Bells, Lyminster
- ↑ The Crossbush Beefeater
- ↑ Stowe MS 944 Template:Webarchive, British Library
- ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Sussex, 1965 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09677-4pages 267–268
- A History of the County of Sussex - Volume 2 p : Lyminster (Victoria County History)
