The barn-like interior of Holy Trinity, Bosham, West Sussex.
Perhaps on the site of a Roman basilica, Holy Trinity has been a place of worship for over 1000 years.
It was in Bosham that King Canute is reputed to have tried to turn back the tide, and it was here his eight year old daughter drowned in the millstream sometime around 1080. Rumoured to have been buried in the church, in 1865 a small stone coffin was discovered, dating to the 11th century and containing the skeleton of a young girl of the right age. It can't be proved it is that of the princess, but she was reburied near the chancel arch where there is a small plaque.
Nearby another grave was discovered, that of a headless and legless body. King Harold's close connection to the church has led to speculation that it might be he, but exhumation has been discounted as there is now no way to prove the identity either way.
View to the chancel arch that appears in the Bayeux Tapestry.
The barn-like interior of Holy Trinity, Bosham, West Sussex.
Perhaps on the site of a Roman basilica, Holy Trinity has been a place of worship for over 1000 years.
It was in Bosham that King Canute is reputed to have tried to turn back the tide, and it was here his eight year old daughter drowned in the millstream sometime around 1080. Rumoured to have been buried in the church, in 1865 a small stone coffin was discovered, dating to the 11th century and containing the skeleton of a young girl of the right age. It can't be proved it is that of the princess, but she was reburied near the chancel arch where there is a small plaque.
Nearby another grave was discovered, that of a headless and legless body. King Harold's close connection to the church has led to speculation that it might be he, but exhumation has been discounted as there is now no way to prove the identity either way.
View to the chancel arch that appears in the Bayeux Tapestry.