This website created by Valerie Martin, contains scenes from her home village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

St. John The Baptist Church

Map reference: TQ 116 085

 The 13th century church tower of St. John the Baptist Church in Findon in 1998.

 

St. John the Baptist Church by Stanley Roy Badmin RWS 1906-1989

 

This is Findon — the website containing everything you are every likely to want to know about the church in Findon.

Copyright Valerie Martin 2008

Articles in chronological date order —

  1053 — A Step Inside

 1086 — Woodpecker Hill

 1300s — Findon Anchorites
1276/1900s — Memorable Stories of Memorable Vicars
1558 — A Forfeit of Twelve Pence by Censure of the Church

 1500s/1827 — Beating the Bounds
Early 1600s — The Old Vicarage in Findon

 1676/1725 Richard Woodeson's Findon

 1798 — The Sound of Music
 
The Lyall Family —

      1770s/1805 — The Findon Commuter
      1779/1881 — Men of Influence
      1795/1865 — The Dreamer and the Artist
 
John Hind's Life in Findon —
     1807/1832 — John Hind and the Carol Singers
     1816 — One Thing Leads to Another

      1825 — The Blaze That Threatened The Rectory

      1830 — Risk of Riots in Findon

      1830s — A Tenth Owing to the Vicar
 
The George Booth Years —
     1833 — George Booth Arrives in Findon
     Emigration to Canada
     1833/1859 — The Life and Times of George Booth
 

Robert Cholmeley's (1819-1880) Life in the Village —

      1859/1880 — Sawdust or Sweets
      1867 — A Year in the Life of Robert Cholmeley

      1868 — The Cumbrous Pews of Yesteryear

      1870s — A Foggy Day on Findon Downs
 
  1890 — Lost Forevermore
  1890 And All That

1896 — Beating More Bounds
  1927 onwards — Brides of Findon
 1950s — Eerie Experience at the Church

 1998 — The Time Capsule

 
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THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE —  was launched by Valerie Martin in January 1999 and will grow to be a historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

E:mail: valeriemartin@findonvillage.com