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Highways & Byways in Sussex

CHAPTER XII
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The church is remarkable also for length of roof (well covered with Horsham stone), and it is altogether a singularly commanding structure.

Within is an imposing plainness.

The stone effigy of a knight in armour reclines just to the south of the altar: son of a branch of the Braose family--of Chesworth, hard by, now in ruins--of whose parent stock we shall hear more when we reach Bramber.

The knight, Thomas, Lord Braose, died in 1395.

The youth of Horsham, hostile invincibly, like all boys, to the stone nose, have reduced that feature to the level of the face; or was it the work of the Puritans, who are known to have shared in the nasal objection?
South of the churchyard is the river, from the banks of which the church would seem to be all Horsham, so effectually is the town behind it blotted out by its broad back.


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