Editing Hurstpierpoint (section)

=== Holy Trinity ===
[[File:Holy_Trinity,_Hurstpierpoint,_Sussex_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1504117.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.3|Holy Trinity Church]]
The parish church was a Norman church, but was largely rebuilt from the designs of [[Charles Barry|Sir Charles Barry]] in 1843–5, who was famous for designing the [[Houses of Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurstpierpointholytrinity.org.uk/|title=Hurstpierpoint Holy Trinity Church of England - Homepage|access-date=20 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430185451/http://hurstpierpointholytrinity.org.uk/|archive-date=30 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1854, the north chapel was added, in 1874 the south chapel and the north transept has been fitted up as a chapel in memory of those who died in the War of 1914–18.<ref name=":1">[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp172-178 'Parishes: Hurstpierpoint'], in ''A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes'', ed. L F Salzman (London, 1940), pp. 172-178. ''British History Online'' [accessed 20 November 2021].</ref> A number of funeral monuments and fittings were preserved from the old church. The font is probably from the 13th century, but the heavy round bowl has been reworked and painted. In the east window of the south chapel are set fifteen medallions of German or Flemish glass of the 16th and 17th centuries. In the south chapel is a much weathered recumbent effigy from 1260 of a cross-legged knight in chain armour, and at the west end of the north aisle is a much mutilated effigy of a knight from 1340. In the churchyard by the west wall are five tapering coffin lids from the 12th or 13th century, with hollow chamfered edges. One shows faint traces of a raised cross. The pavement outside the west doorway has about 150 inlaid slip tiles from the late 13th or early 14th century, which are suffering from wear.<ref name=":1" />