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The Blessed Virgin Mary, Singleton, Surrey.
‘This is a hundredal church, the central church of the Hundred of Singleton owned by the great Earl Godwin (Goodwood – Godwin’s Wood) father of King Harold who died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It housed in its tower and conjectured long room over the nave, priests who served the other churches in the hundred. This upper room is probably why there is a window high up over the chancel arch and a fine triangular headed Saxon doorway half way up the tower inside.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Singleton, Surrey.
‘This is a hundredal church, the central church of the Hundred of Singleton owned by the great Earl Godwin (Goodwood – Godwin’s Wood) father of King Harold who died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It housed in its tower and conjectured long room over the nave, priests who served the other churches in the hundred. This upper room is probably why there is a window high up over the chancel arch and a fine triangular headed Saxon doorway half way up the tower inside.