Bosham furthermore claims Hubert of Bosham, the author of the _Book of Becket's Martyrdom_, who was with Saint Thomas of Canterbury when the assassins stabbed him to the death.
The church is of great age; it is even claimed that the tower is the original Saxon.

The circumstance that in the representation of the edifice in the Bayeux tapestry there is no tower has been urged against this theory, although architectural realism in embroidery has never been very noticeable.

The bells (it is told) were once carried off in a Danish raid; but they brought their captors no luck--rather the reverse, since they so weighed upon the ship that she sank.

When the present bells ring, the ancient submerged peal is said to ring also in sympathy at the bottom of the Channel--a pretty habit, which would suggest that bell metal is happily and wisely superior to changes of religion, were it not explained by the unromantic principles of acoustics.
A heavy pole, known as the staff of Bevis of Southampton (and Arundel), was of old kept in Bosham church.
At high water Bosham is the fair abode of peace.

When every straggling arm of the harbour is brimming full, when their still surfaces reflect the sky with a brighter light, and the fishing boats ride erect, Bosham is serenely beautiful and restful.