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Title: Bosham - Holy Trinity Church (Crypt)

Image of Bosham - Holy Trinity Church (Crypt)

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Publisher: Unknown.

Series: Unknown.

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Number: Unknown or not given.

Number of times this image has been viewed: 503.

Posted: 1778.

Notes: Contemporary engraving. This Cript or vault lies under the parish church of Bosham, which according to Tanner, was once collegiate, and indeed the stalls for the prebendaries adorned with curious carvings are still remaining. For what purpose this vault was constructed is not apparent, as it does not seem to have ever been used for depositing the dead; the descent is by a small stair-case, near which is a mural monument, canopyed by an arch divided into three compartments, which appears to have been placed here before the building of the stair-case, as the steps in some measure encroach upon it, but as this monument is without inscription, it affords no means of ascertaining the time of its erection, the bottom of the window shewn in the view is just level with the ground without. There are diverse ancient monuments in the church.
The account of the church at Bosanham or Boscham given by Tanner is as follows:
UPON St Wilfrid\'s coming among the South Saxons, about A.D. 681, he found here a small monastery of five or six religious, under the government of one Dieul, a Scottish monk. After the conquest, William Warelwaft, Bishop of Exeter, obtained of King Henry I, the grant of this place to himself and successors, who were patrons and visitors of the secular canons or prebendaries founded by that bishop in the choir of the parish church here, which was looked upon as a royal free chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and exept from the ordinary jurisdiction of the bishop of Chichester, and his archdeacon. The bishop of Exeter was in the place of dean or provost, the prebends of Waleton, Chedeham, Weftbrook, Fountingdon, and Apulderham are mentioned in the Lincoln Taxation: and some shew of a collegiate church remained here till the general dissolution. The site of the free chapel or college was granted 6 Eliz. to Vincent Calmady, and the next year to the dean and chapter of Chichester.
This view was drawn anno 1778.

Category: Place of Worship.

Resolution of scanned image (pixels): 187 x 269.

Contributed by: Unknown.

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Bosham.

Church shown on this image:

Holy Trinity.

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