Pycombe, W Sussex - Church of Transfiguration - limited edition postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Pyecombe Parish Church, West Sussex [Church of the Transfiguration Anglican church]
• Publisher:  Noel Tatt Ltd., Dover, Kent / Limited Edition postcard
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Pyecombe is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located 7 miles (11 km) to the north of Brighton. The civil parish covers an area of 887 hectares (2,190 acres) and has a population of 200 (2001 census).

The parish church, the Church of the Transfiguration, was largely built in 1170. The village inn is the Plough; and there is Pyecombe Golf Club just to the north of the village. There is also a riding school The Three Greys and a stud Brendon Stud in the locality.

The word 'Pyecombe' is thought to derive from the Saxon name ""peac cumb"" which means 'the peak valley'. Actually the parish of Pyecombe comprises two settlements, one called 'Pyecombe' and the other 'Pyecombe Street'. These are about a quarter of a mile apart. The reason for the gap between the two parts of the village is unsure but it is generally thought to be a consequence of plague in the 17th century which necessitated the temporary abandonment of the main settlement and its 13th century Saxo-Norman church.

The village lies on the London to Brighton Way Roman road, as well as on 18th and 19th century turnpike roads over Clayton Hill.

Wolstonbury Hill is a chalk prominence located within the parish, owned and maintained by the National Trust, is listed as a Scheduled Monument and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.^[2]

The Church of the Transfiguration is an Anglican church in the village of Pyecombe, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. The mostly 12th- and 13th-century building, in an isolated setting facing the South Downs, has been designated a Grade I Listed building. It is the parish church of Pyecombe.

The small village of Pyecombe is situated in a long, deep valley (or coombe) formed by the river Wellesbourne as it flows towards the English Channel at Brighton.^[1] (The river is now a winterbourne and runs underground for most of its length.) The South Downs rise to about 700 feet (210 m) to the east and west. The village is in two parts about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) apart. The original medieval settlement formed around the church and an ancient trackway across the South Downs; when this declined, new development took place to the west. A 16th-century cottage which may have been part of the manor house is in this newer area.^[1] Pyecombe manor was probably split from the larger manor of Pangdean (mentioned in the Domesday Book) by the 13th century, although they were later reunited.^[1]

The church was built on the west side of the trackway, which was at the centre of three ancient routes across the South Downs which split at the south end of the village.^[1] The western route became the main London Road, now the A23; the eastern route forms the A273 to Clayton, Hassocks, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath. The church existed, under the name of Pangdean (or Pingeden) Church, at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, when the St Pancras Priory at Lewes held the advowson. In 1537, during the Reformation, it passed to King Henry VIII.^[1]

The oldest parts of the present structure, the chancel, chancel arch and nave, are 12th-century;^[1][2] a date of 1170 has been attributed.^[3] The Norman tower at the west end was built in the 13th century^[1][2] and holds one 15th-century bell.^[1] A roughcast finish was applied to the whole exterior in 1898, but this has now been removed except on the outside of a blocked doorway on the south side.^[1][2][3] As well as this restoration, some work was carried out on the church in 1844 and 1914.^[1]

The church is aligned from east to west with its chancel and altar at the east end. It consists of a 12th-century chancel and plain, semicircular chancel arch; a nave of the same age, with two rectangular windows on each side; and a short tower from the 13th century, with two angled buttresses at the southwestern and northwestern corners. The former has a 13th-century gravestone incorporated into the stonework, but the buttresses are no earlier than 14th-century. On the north side is an entrance porch and a vestry.^[1] Horsham stone tiles are used for the church and porch roofs and the shallow ""Sussex cap""-style roof of the tower.^[1][3]

In common with many Sussex churches, flint was used as the main building material.^[4] This was hidden under the roughcasting for about a century, but has now been revealed again. There are modern stone dressings around the windows.^[1] Some of the windows themselves are also 19th-century copies, although those in the nave are from the 15th century.^[1][4]

Inside, the chancel arch has a smaller modern arch on each side. The tiled floor of the sanctuary dates from the 13th century; the encaustic tiles were made at St Pancras Priory, and retain designs showing animals and birds.^[3] The carved pulpit is dated 1636, although it was remodelled in 1898. The lectern has similar carvings.^[4] One surviving 12th-century internal fixture is the font, made of one strip of lead bent into a drum shape and sealed at the join. The exterior has ornate scrollwork designs.^[1][4

type=printed

city/ region=pyecombe

period=post-war (1945 - present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)