New furniture

The church of St. Mary our Lady at  Sidlesham was very old, with the present buildings dating back to the early 13th century. And the parish going back more than 500 years before that. What appeared to be a very old font and some old pillars can be seen in the snap left.

Quite a large church for an old, but not very large village. So it was odd to find a lot of relatively modern woodwork: pews, doors, pulpit, altar rails and so on. Perhaps dating from the 1950's. How did such a church find the money and energy to do this at that time? Scarcely remembered as a time of evangelical revival.

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