Over the years, Chichester’s Market Cross has become a well recognised feature of the city. It is believed to have been built in 1501 by Bishop Edward Story, who paid ten pounds to the Mayor of Chichester for the ground on which it is built. The Bishop allowed poor peasants, who only had a few [...]
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Chichester Market Cross
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 30th 2019
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Poplar Cottage and Garden
Poplar Cottage was the home of a landless peasant and his family in the early-mid 17th century. The garden of such a low-status dwelling would have been used almost exclusively to produce food and grow herbs for strewing and medicinal purposes. Few if any of the plans would have been grown for their aesthetic value.*
*From [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 29th 2019
Bayleaf is a timber-framed hall house dating mainly from the early fifteenth century. The garden is a re-creation of a late-medieval garden, laid out in blocks of beds.
Each plot, together with the access path, measures 2 x 1 perches (16.5 x 33ft); 16.5ft is the statutory rod, pole or perch. This is the measurement a [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 28th 2019
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Paulo Coelho
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 27th 2019
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Walderton House & Garden
The house from Walderton was built in the early-mid seventeenth century. The garden would have been mainly for vegetables, fruit, herbs and livestock. However, at this date and social level some plants were beginning to be grown for their aesthetic qualities. Lilies, Primroses and gillyflowers in the borders – the very first beginnings of decorative [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2019
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Water Mill
This mill is for grinding corn, for flour and animal feed. The overshot waterwheel provides power for two pairs of millstones, a grain cleaner and a sack holst. *
*from the Weald & Downland Living Museum souvenir guide
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2019
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Bell Frame
This bell frame dates from the seventeenth century and allows for the hanging of three bells. It is constructed of oak, and several of the timbers have been re-used from an earlier frame. It cam from the church of St Mary, Stoughton, West Sussex.*
The spire over the bell frame was constructed in 2009, to illustrate [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2019
