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There is no mention of a church in the Domesday book, but a stone church was certainly built at an early date, the tower of the present building shows work which dates from the late Saxon or early Norman period.
The church is a cruciform shape, one of the largest in the district and was completed about the year 1230. The church was confirmed to the Priory of Mitchelham in 1398 by the Bishop of Chichester. At the dissolution of the monasteries the patronage was granted to Anne of Cleeves and was eventually purchased by the first Earl of Sheffield.
The tower is Saxo-norman and was originally built without a spire or its buttresses. These were added about 1340.
The tower is of two stages, the lower stage has a round headed window on the north, south and west sides, on each of the upper stage is a double wide headed opening of original Norman work. The eastern pair have been visible only from inside the church as a result of raising the level of the nave roof in the 14th century.
The spire was probably first erected about 1340 It is octagonal with broaches at the bases, and the whole of the tower floors and the spire itself are carried on an independent timber frame built inside the earlier tower. The apex of the spire is 99 feet above the ground.
There are eight bells.
The church is built of sandstone rubble with a roof of Horsham stone.
It consists of the west tower, a four bay nave, north and south transepts and a mausoleum at the north end of the north transept, a south porch, chancel and vestry. The porch is 15th century.
The nave has clerestory windows, the roof has five Crown posts.
The doorway from the nave to the tower is probably Saxon, with early Norman Chevron ornament over the arch on the west side. The east side is restored. The church was altered in 1340 when the walls appear to have been raised.
The original Norman church was probably the length of the present nave and of width to the present piers, the foundations of which are Norman, still in perfect condition. The total length of the church is 142 feet.
The transepts are part of the general rebuilding in early English style in the 13th century. The north transept was probably converted into a Chantry Chapel about 1340, with its own door in the west wall. There is a squint and a piscina. The south transept contains a monument to Richard Leche and Charity his wife. He was High Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey, and died in 1596. His widow married secondly the Earl of Nottingham, who was as unkind to her as her first husband had been kind. There is a small skull between them indicating the death of a child. His will provided money for the benefit of the poor people of Fletching, and this charity has survived virtually unaltered to the present day, its administration has been bought up to date by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners established in 1963.
There is a Table Tomb to the Dalyngrygge family, probably Sir Walter of that name and his wife. On top of the tomb is a brass showing him and his wife underneath a double canopy. The family built Bodiam Castle with the approval of Richard II.
There is also a 13th century monumental figure of a knight and his lady which was discovered in 1830 at the foundation of one of the buttresses of the church.
Nearby is a brass to Petrus Denot mounted on a stone slab. The brass consists of a pair of gloves and is dated around 1450. He was indeed a Glover. This slab was probably originally on the floor.
The chancel is 4 feet wider than the nave, it is also very long compared to the length of the nave being a length of 50 feet. It was heavily restored in the 1880s when a vestry was also added. The eastern window was also restored in 1880 and has stained-glass by Kempe. The south side of the chancel has two low side windows.
There is a modern piscina and sedilia replacing the former medieval work.
Middleham Castle, one of several of Fletch's ancestral piles. This is about where her bedroom would have been, if she were a wee bit older...
As I was driving home from work, I saw a television transmission antenna and mast elevated on the other side of the levee. I immediately knew there must be a news crew at the river, so I crossed the levee to see what newsworthy event was happening.
At first, I was at a loss. A crowd of people were gazing across the water at a seemingly ordinary scene. I grabbed my camera and got out of my car to investigate. A news reporter was coiling up her microphone cord beside her cameraman's camera. When she got into her BMW to return to the news room, and the cameraman lit a cigarette, I walked over to ask what was going on. That's when I met Fletch.
Earlier in the day a home had collapsed into the river, and another home had it's pylons damaged and was tilting precariously towards the water. Fletch continued to roll his camera on the scene just in case the cataclysmic collapse happened again. Below the damaged home across the river, people were drinking at a Tiki bar. Not one person had moved their boats to a safer area. "They just don't believe it will fall," Fletch told me.
As we talked, storm clouds were brewing, and a few rain drops began to fall. Lightning began flashing among rumbles of thunder. Fletch reached inside his news truck to lower the mast and antenna. He brought out a nylon bag to cover his camera and lit another cigarette. I asked him how long he planned to wait for the house to collapse. 6:30 PM was his limit, or less if the weather worsened first.
I asked Fletch if I could take his portrait for the 100 Strangers project while he waited. "Sure," he replied, "What do you want me to do?" I suggested he drape his tattooed arm over his camera and I knelt down to get the oak trees as a background. I squeezed off a few frames of the cameraman, and I began to wait with him for the imminent collapse of the house. While we waited, i explained the 100 Strangers project and gave fletch one of my cards. He said he would go online to check out the group and my photostream.
More lightning lit up the sky, and the raindrops became more frequent. Finally, Fletch decided it was time to pack up his gear and return to the newsroom without the shot he wanted. I got the shot I wanted. Thanks Fletch.
Fletch is my thirty-eighth stranger in the 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Stormy overcast skies. Nikon D200, 50mm.
The 100 Strangers website can be found at 100strangers.com/
This is from my first shoot with Jay. Today, 3.13.2012, is the release of his album "Light Years Away". I got my photo chosen as his album cover, the poster for the release party, and in Freq. magazine. Awesome!! :)
fletcher got his stitches removed...all except one where his canine digs into his lip. the surgeon wanted to leave it in and let is dissolve on its own. he got the 1st of the four melanoma vaccines to fight off any new cancer cells. it will hopefully boost his immune system. he is also battling allergies again. i had to stop giving him his allergy shots with everything going on. he had an increase in lymphocytes and the oncologist mentioned the possibility of lymphoma..i am hoping (and praying) it's due to an inflammation from his allergies.
once again, i am keeping fingers and paws crossed....
March 1991. Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. Fletch adds another negotiating tool to the marital contract as she learns how to master the shotgun...
Shot on Kodachrome 64 with a Canon Epoca (!) if anyone remembers those revolutionary P&S zoom cameras that were on the market for about 8 seconds.
(Had a historical reference link to Epoca here, but Canon has killed it, probably wanting to erase all memory of the beast...)