CHIDDINGLY CHURCH,    CHIDDINGLY,
EAST SUSSEX  in the diocese of CHICHESTER

ROYAL ARMS - E END - S AISLE - 1820 -1830
Arms of George IV 1820-1830 with escutcheon: Arms of Hanover ensigned with crown.

Believed to be the work of Mark Antony Lower, son of Richard Lower, the schoolmaster and a noted Sussex antiquarian.

Inscription: above left; GEO IV, above right; REX both in italic capitals in gold lettering. Below left; THOMAS GUY JAMES NOAKES, in italic capitals in gold lettering. Below right; Churchwardens, in lower case gothic lettering

HATCHMENT CHANCEL - S WALL - 1710
Arms of Bromfield empaling French. All black background.
Painted fabric on wooden stretcher.
For Thomas Bromfield, of Lewes, who m. Anne, dau. of Stephen French and d. 27th January 1710. aged 73, She d. 1697.

DOCUMENT - S AISLE - Pillar
Framed Document listing Vicars of Chiddingly. Hand lettering in black with years dates in red.

The Vicars of Chiddingly from the Fifteenth Century

14 ? John Stoke 
1407 John Putter 
1413 Walter Gunmaylok
1478 William Joy   John Bumdon 
1509 Simon Fewlar 
1513 William Titelton
1560 Thomas Chatfelde 
1588 William Storckey 
1623 Samuel Burton
1652 Robert Baker 
1667 Ephraim Bethell 
1671 Thomas Eades
1692 William Blackstone 
1725 Giles Watkins 
1728 Edward Luxford
1737 John Lloyd A.B. 
1748 John Herring A.B. 
1777 Thomas Baker
1796 Henry Bishop A.M. 
1825 Whitworth Russell A.M. 
1847 James Henry Vidal M.A.
1875 John Scale 
1905 T. Vyner Southey M.A. 
1916 Cecil Clarke M.A.
1922 A.F.Tracey 
1927 Jerom Victor I.Th. 
1936 Henry William Overs I.Th.
1939 David James MacGregor 
* 1951 Stanley Fairlie 
*1957 Gerard Summergood B.A.
* 1964 Brian Lees Gandon 
* 1967 Hugh Stanley Robinson AKC 
1983 Patrick Amos
1994 M. Brian Lea M.A..B.D 
1996 Peter Clark.

(* From 1951-1976 also Vicar of Laughton. From 1983 Rectors of the United Benefice of Chiddingly with East Hoathly).

ROLL OF HONOUR - SOUTH WALL - Rt of S Door
Comprises an ornate gilded frame with a printed title in blue letters, first letters of title red, hand written names in black lettering, crosses beside names and letters POW in red. Names arranged alphabetically in four columns, separated by black vertical lines with the outer lines in red.

ROLL OF HONOUR Names of those from this Parish on Active Service for their King and Country.  [This covers the 1939 - 1945 World War]

Anson A;  Arnott W F;  Austin Stephen;   Axell Cyril +;  Baker Alan;  Baker Charles;
Baker Henry R;  Baker James;   Barnes Edward;  Barnes W J;  Barton Frank;  Barton Tommy;
Barton William;  Bowden Wilfred E +;  Carter Francis N;  Carter Raymond W;  Clarke Francis C;
Clarke Harold;   Clemow W Toney;  Cosstick George;  Cull Cyril;  Cull Jack;  Cull Stanley;
Cull William;  Dadswell B  POW;  Dadswell J D;  Darby Stanley F;  Dee Ronald;  Eade Ronald;
Excell R J;  Farmer A G;  Francis H R;  Funnell Bernard;  Funnell F W;  Funnell Henry; Gladstone David

(Column2)
Goad Charles;  Goad William;  Gooch John R;  Gooch Norman;  Goldsmith R W;  Gorringe Edward;
Hall Bernard;  Hall Cyril F;  Hall George;  Hartnup Albert  POW;  Hind George;  Houghton J C Y;  
Humphrey Jesse;  Inward Stanley;  Johnson Bernard;  Macgregor David;  Marchant Arthur;  Marchant M;
Mash Leonard;  Milham Alfred;  Milham Joseph C;  Milham W J;  Nelson Patrick;  Parsons Bertram;
Phillips Archibald;  Price John;  Reed George A;  Robson Joseph C;  Rose R;   Russell Charles H;  
Russell Frank;  Scott Edward A;  Shirley Francis;  Smith H W   +;  Smith J F;  Smith Perry;  Slope Sydney;
Stranack G

(Column 3 )
Stranack R A;  Tester Charles W;  Topham A H;  Topham R N;  Vine Cecil;  Vine Thomas   +;
Viola Edward M;  West Ernest;  Westgate Arthur;  Westgate Leonard;  White Charles A;  White Charles;
White Charles T;  White Wilfred;  Winter George   +;  Wilkinson C;  Wilkinson G H   +;  Wilkinson R H R;
Vine William H;  Kennard George;  Kennard Fred;  Martin Jocelyn;  Harris Ronald;  Field David;
White George;  Peace Norman;  Rubin Harold;  Lane Ronald;  Kemp John F;  Roberts Sidney F;
Beecham Roberts

(Column 4)
Agg Iris;  Baker Nellie;  Bowden Margaret B;  Conyer Lorna (nee Clemow);  Dayrell Eileen L;  
Hartnup Audrey;  Heaseman Constance;  Mash Elva;  Mintrel Jean ( nee Kemp);  Mowbray Elizabeth;
Tatnall Gladys;  Tatnall Ruby;  Topham M Anne;  Austin Rose;  Beale Irene;   Durrant Edith;  
Chires Mabel;  Smith Joy

Below the four columns of names the words:-  'Brethren, Pray for us'

PRINT - S E TOWER pillar - Wall to E
Coloured print of the Last Supper after Leonardo da Vinci.
Presented to Church by Annie Rose in 1999.

DECALOGUE - SE and NE pillars of Tower
Decalogue in two lancet shaped panels. Lettering in black gothic, book and chapter in blue, verse headings in gold roman numerals. Initial capitals illuminated in gold lettering and other capitals in red.

The decalogue was originally mounted either side of the Altar. Fixings are still visible.

PLAQUE - TOWER - N W Pillar - 1912
Brass plaque inscribed with lettering infilled in black with capitals of name in red. In upper and lower case with filled patee formee crosses at comers.

1911 A LEGACY OF £50 HAVING BEEN LEFT TOWARDS A CLOCK FOR THIS CHURCH BY THE LATE DAVID GUY (OF HAILSHAM) THE REMAINDER AMOUNTING TO £80 WAS RAISED BY SUBSCRIPTION.

DOCUMENT - N AISLE Pillar - 20thC
Document in glazed frame. Hand written in black italics.

Chiddingly Church. This church was built in the thirteenth century on the site of, and to replace, an earlier Norman church dating back to the Conquest. Both its founder and its dedication are unknown. The original church probably consisted of a Chancel and Nave only and the Aisles were added by piercing the main walls. The arrangement of the stones, and the stone itself- being different from that of the nave- suggest that the Nave and Aisles were not built at the same time. Both the N and S Aisles possess an Early English Window of one light at their Western end. The Arches were added early in the fourteenth century. The Transept Chapel on the south side was built in time of James I to receive the Jefferay monument.