The remarkable chancel arch of Holy Trinity, Bosham, West Sussex.
The church is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry as it was here that Harold, Earl of Wessex and soon to be King prayed with his men before embarking on the ill fated trip to Normandy before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The exact age of the arch is uncertain. It appears to be of Norman construction, but seems to be faithfully reproduced in the Bayeux Tapestry which is thought to have been embroidered, (not actually a tapestry and now widely accepted to have been made in England!) soon after the conquest, perhaps as a gift for William's coronation. If this is the arch in the tapestry it must have been constructed soon after 1066.
Looking from the chancel to the barn-like medieval body of the church.
The remarkable chancel arch of Holy Trinity, Bosham, West Sussex.
The church is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry as it was here that Harold, Earl of Wessex and soon to be King prayed with his men before embarking on the ill fated trip to Normandy before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The exact age of the arch is uncertain. It appears to be of Norman construction, but seems to be faithfully reproduced in the Bayeux Tapestry which is thought to have been embroidered, (not actually a tapestry and now widely accepted to have been made in England!) soon after the conquest, perhaps as a gift for William's coronation. If this is the arch in the tapestry it must have been constructed soon after 1066.
Looking from the chancel to the barn-like medieval body of the church.