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The Church of St Peter at West Firle - A classic English Landscape by antonychammond (off4awhile)

This is where our daughter was married on September 7th and, as you can imagine, it was a joyous occasion! West Firle - St Peter The village lies under the Downs near Firle Place. A reset round-headed and double-chamfered doorway in the north aisle shows there was a church by the late C12. The nave had reached its present length by soon after at the latest, for both tower and chancel are C13. The tower was originally unbuttressed. Its early C13 arch has square, chamfered responds with hollowed stops and a pointed head of two orders, springing from broaches on the tops of the abaci. Leeney believed the tower, following its other detail, was C16. However, the high quality flintwork, when compared with the undoubtedly mid-C16 tower of Beddingham nearby, suggests it is C13, though the thinner upper west wall may be rebuilt. The chancel, though altered in the C19, has south lancets and a piscina (see below), showing it is C13. In the south aisle a C13 doorway, with a filleted roll-moulding on the head, roll-moulded jambs and a label with carved stops, may remain from an earlier aisle. The aisles were rebuilt or added in the C14, with four-bay arcades on octagonal piers, matching responds and double-hollow-chamfered heads. The broad chancel arch was rebuilt then, with a head of two moulded orders, the more complex inner one on semi-octagonal shafts attached to the responds. A cinquefoil in the east gable (recorded as blocked in 1867) is related to the clerestory at Beddingham. Both aisles had three-light east windows which were later reset - the south one when the aisle was extended to overlap the chancel in the C15; the north one is now the east window of the C16 Gage chapel. The curvilinear tracery, especially the elongated ovals, resembles that associated with Ardingly, West Sussex and elsewhere. Probably at this time, massive angle-buttresses were added to the tower, initially at the south west angle only. The uncusped, square-headed aisle windows are late C15, when the south aisle was extended eastwards, giving access near the chancel arch to a rood-stair, of which the blocked lower entrance remains. Both Sharpe Collection drawings (one undated, the other 1803) show two-light clerestory-openings. The south porch of flint and stone chequer, with a moulded arch is C16. So, probably, was the east window of five trefoiled lights that is shown on the Sharpe drawing of 1803. Finally and possibly connected with the work on the aisles, the tower was remodelled, with uncusped, square-headed windows and bell-openings (the west one is double), a chamfered doorway in a square hood, battlements and tiled cap. The north chapel dates in its present form from c1595, though Nicholas Antram suggests on the evidence of the gables that it may have been altered from an existing structure. As it now stands, the chapel was built by John Gage the younger to house the Gage family memorials (see below) and beneath it is the family burial vault. It is broader than the chancel. Apart from the re-used east window, the north one resembles those of the aisles and is probably a conscious copy, rather than a sign that the aisles were remodelled at this later date. The chapel keeps its original roof, with a crownpost and a moulded tiebeam with foliage in the centre. The entrance then was through a four-centred doorway from the aisle, with shallow mouldings and foliage in the spandrels; this arrangement demonstrates the separate ownership of the chapel by the Gage family. In the C17, angle-buttresses were added on the north side of the tower, matching those to the south. There were no further major changes until the C19, though early in that century Horsfield describes a pulpit set in the chancel arch, with a passage either side. At a restoration in 1867, G M Hills worked on the nave and aisles with new west windows (though the stonework of that of the north aisle looks in part older, particularly the rere-arch) and higher walls in the aisles. Possibly at this time the south west aisle window was replaced with by one one with a depressed four-centred head and panelled tracery. Even if this window is excluded, the stated total cost of the restoration work at this time, £749 (KD 1899), is likely to be an underestimate. If the pews in the nave were part of the work, the doors to each are a late example of this arrangement. Hills based his cinquefoiled clerestory on the C14 east gable opening and replaced the roofs. The only change he made in the chancel was new floor-tiles. It was subsequently further restored in 1884 by R T Creed, along with the Gage chapel. The chancel roof is new and an arcade to the chapel replaced the previous ‘mean partition’. The account of this work (ibid) does not mention the exterior, but the south wall was refaced and the east one rebuilt with a window of curvilinear tracery. Firle (/ˈfɜrl/; Sussex dialect: Furrel /ˈfʌrəl/) is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England] Firle refers to an old-English/Anglo-Saxon word fierol meaning overgrown with oak. The original division of East Firle and West Firle still remain, however East Firle is now simply confined to the houses of Heighton Street which lie to the east of the Firle Park. West Firle is now generally referred to as Firle, although West Firle remains its official name. It is located south of the A27 road four miles (9 km) east of Lewes. During the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042–66) Firle was part of the Abbey of Wilton's estate. Following the Norman conquest of England the village and surrounding lands were passed to Robert, Count of Mortain. Half-brother of King William I, Robert was the largest landowner in the country after the monarch. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, referred to as 'Ferla'. The value of the village is listed as being £44, which was amongst the highest values in the county. The manor house, the site on which Firle Place now stands, was occupied from the early fourteenth century by the 'de Livet' (Levett) family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman descent who owned the manor. The Levett family would later include founders of Sussex's iron industry, royal courtiers, knights, rectors, an Oxford University dean, a prominent early physician and medical educator, and even a lord mayor of London. An ancient bronze seal found in the 1800s near Eastbourne (now in the collection of the Lewes Castle Museum) shows the coat-of-arms of John Livet, and is believed to have belonged to the first member of the family named lord of Firle in 1316. On the bankruptcy of lord of the manor Thomas Levett in 1440, the owernship passed to Bartholomew Bolney, whose daughter married William Gage in 1472. Following the death of Bartholomew Bolney (d. 1476) without a male heir the seat of Firle Place was passed to William Gage. Firle Place has remained the seat of the Viscount Gage ever since. During the Second World War, Firle Plantation to the south of the village was the operational base of a four man Home Guard Auxiliary Unit. For further information please visit <a href="http://sussexparishchurches.org/spc_V31/east-sussex/20-east-sussex-s-w/300-west-firle-st-peter" rel="nofollow">sussexparishchurches.org/spc_V31/east-sussex/20-east-suss...</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firle" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firle</a>
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