Staplefield is a village in the
Mid Sussex District of
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...
, England, situated north-west of
Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath is a town in West Sussex, England, south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and northeast of the county town, Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawl ...
on the B2114 road. It is part of
Ansty and Staplefield
Ansty and Staplefield, previously Cuckfield Rural, is a civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, covering an area from the north-west side of Burgess Hill, the whole lying around but mostly to the west of Cuckfield civil ...
civil parish
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where the 2011 Census population information is included.
The
Anglican
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parish church built in 1847 is dedicated to
St. Mark and contains wall paintings by the Victorian stained glass designer
Charles Eamer Kempe
Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lichg ...
. In 1994, Reverend Anthony Freeman, vicar of St Mark's was dismissed by the
Bishop of Chichester
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,
Eric Kemp, when he stated that he didn't believe in God
BBC Website
/ref> and published his book ''God in Us: A Case for Christian Humanism''. He is currently managing editor of ''The Journal of Consciousness Studies''.
The village also has a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima
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.
There are two public house
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s, The Jolly Tanners and The Victory Inn, the latter is named after the legal victory in gaining permission to be a pub not after Horatio Nelson's flagship, ''Victory
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'', despite his sister, Catherine Matcham, living in nearby Slaugham
Slaugham () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located to the south of Crawley, on the A23 road to Brighton. The civil parish covers an area of . At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,226 ...
. The pub sign shows a picture of a judge and a document inside the pub shows details of the case. There is also a red park next to the pubs. The pubs are adjacent to the village green and cricket pitch.
References
External links
Photographs of St. Mark’s church
Staplefield Home Guard Auxiliary Unit
Villages in West Sussex
Mid Sussex District
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