Lyminster
{{Short description|Village in West Sussex, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Lyminster
| static_image_name = Lyminster StMaryMagdalene NE.jpg
| static_image_caption = St Mary Magdalene parish church
| area_total_km2 = 5.87
| population = 369
| population_ref = (2011 Census){{cite web |url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126198&c=Lyminster+and+Crossbush&d=16&e=62&g=6473120&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1383162206343&enc=1 |title=Area: Lyminster and Crossbush (Parish); Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=30 October 2013}}
| population_density = {{convert|60|/km2|/sqmi|abbr=on}}
| os_grid_reference = TQ025047
| coordinates = {{coord|50.833|-0.546|display=inline,title}}
| label_position = bottom
| civil_parish = Lyminster and Crossbush
| shire_district = Arun
| shire_county = West Sussex
| region = South East England
| country = England
| post_town = Littlehampton
| postcode_area = BN
| postcode_district = BN17
| dial_code = 01903
| constituency_westminster = Arundel and South Downs
| london_distance = {{convert|50|mi}} NNE
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101133509/http://www.arun.gov.uk/main.cfm?type=LYMINSTERANDCROSSB Lyminster and Crossbush Parish Council]
}}
Lyminster is a village that is the main settlement of Lyminster and Crossbush civil parish, in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It borders, to the south, Littlehampton, which has its town centre {{convert|2|mi|0}} away.
Landmarks
=Church=
The Church of England parish church of St Mary Magdalene is an 11th-century Saxon{{sfn|Nairn|Pevsner|1965|p=121}} building and a Grade I listed building, the highest grading in the national system.{{NHLE |num= 1027604 |desc=The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalen |date=12 October 1954 |accessdate=30 October 2013}}
;Bells
The church has a ring of six bells. Lester and Pack of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble, second and fourth bells in 1759.{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Lyminster&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=LYMINSTER |title=Lyminster S Mary Magd |last=Rix |first=Geoff |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |publisher=Central Council of Church Bell Ringers |date=6 July 2012 |access-date=30 October 2013}} John Warner and Sons of Cripplegate, London cast the third and fifth bells in 1887, the year of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1950.
History
According to the Hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript the village is the burial place of Saint Cuthflæd of Lyminster.[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_944_f029v Stowe MS 944] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140103065303/http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_944_f029v |date=2014-01-03 }}, British LibraryThe Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press.
Folklore
Just to the north of the village is a knuckerhole which, according to folklore, was home to a dragon, the Knucker.The church contains a tombstone called the Slayer's Slab, supposed to be from the tomb of the dragonslayer.{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Bane |first1=Theresa |title=Knucker |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore |date=22 May 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2268-2 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PYWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 |language=en}}
References
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Sources and further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Nairn |first1=Ian |author1-link=Ian Nairn |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author2-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1965 |title=Sussex |series=The Buildings of England |location=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-071028-0 |pages=267–268 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Page |editor-first=William |editor-link=William Henry Page |year=1973 |title=A History of the County of Sussex |volume=2 |series=Victoria County History |page=121 }}
External links
{{Commons category|Lyminster}}
- [https://archive.today/20041123091238/http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/lymin/ Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture; Lyminster church]
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