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St Richard of Chichester Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Chichester, West Sussex, England. The church was built in 1958 and contains the largest scheme of stained glass by Gabriel Loire in the United Kingdom. The church is situated on Market Avenue on the corner of Cawley Road, next to St Richard's Catholic Primary School. It is a ...
Richard of Chichester (1197 – 3 April 1253), also known as Richard de Wych, is a saint (canonized 1262) who was Bishop of Chichester. In Chichester Cathedral a shrine dedicated to Richard had become a richly decorated centre of pilgrimage .
Quakers worshipped in Chichester from 1683, and this building opposite Priory Park dates from 1698 or 1700. It was completely rebuilt in 1967 in a Modernist style by builder Robert Heasman (a Quaker) to the design of John Welland. A graveyard stood next to it, and part of it remains. [44] [138] [137] [158] [159] [160] St Richard of Chichester's ...
In 1262, Richard de la Wyche, who was bishop from 1245 to 1253, was canonised as Saint Richard of Chichester. His shrine made the cathedral a place of pilgrimage. The shrine was ordered to be destroyed in 1538 during the first stages of the English Reformation. In 1642 the cathedral came under siege by Parliamentary troops. [2]
The town-centre site of Bognor Regis's former parish church, St John the Baptist's, has been occupied by shops since the church was demolished in 1972. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) In the English county of West Sussex, many former chapels, churches and other places of worship ...
St Olave's Church dates from the 11th century; the Churches of All Saints-in-the-Pallant and St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket were built in the 13th century; and the Churches of St John the Evangelist, St Bartholomew and St Peter the Great all date from the 19th century [9] Anglican churchbuilding fervour that added hundreds of new buildings across ...
The event takes place on St Richard's Day, the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, [1] Sussex's patron saint. The date marks the anniversary of the translation of St Richard's body from its original burial place in the nave of Chichester Cathedral to an elaborate shrine at the cathedral on 16 June 1276. [3]
The Benson Memorial Church, dedicated to St Richard of Chichester, is an English Roman Catholic church in the Hertfordshire town of Buntingford.Its name derives from the notable priest and author Robert Hugh Benson who lived locally at Hare Street House and helped fund construction of the church.