Editing 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_footnotes           = <ref name=WSCC2001>{{cite web|url=http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/communityandliving/census2001/pop_parish_summary.pdf |title=2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish |publisher=West Sussex County Council |access-date=1 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608075926/http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/communityandliving/census2001/pop_parish_summary.pdf |archive-date=8 June 2011 }}</ref>
| area_total_km2           = 5.87
| population               = 369
| population_ref           = ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]])<ref name=ONS>{{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}}</ref>
| 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 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 (UK Parliament constituency)|Arundel and South Downs]]
| london_distance          = {{convert|50|mi}} [[Boxing the compass|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 parishes in England|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 [[Anglo-Saxon architecture|Saxon]]{{sfn|Nairn|Pevsner|1965|p=121}} building and a Grade I [[listed building]], the highest grading in the national system.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1027604 |desc=The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalen |date=12 October 1954 |accessdate=30 October 2013}}</ref> 
;Bells
The church has a [[Change ringing|ring]] of six bells. Lester and Pack of the [[Whitechapel Bell Foundry]] cast the treble, second and fourth bells in 1759.<ref name=Dove>{{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}}</ref> John Warner and Sons of [[Cripplegate]], [[London]] cast the third and fifth bells in 1887,<ref name=Dove/> the year of the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria]]. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1950.<ref name=Dove/>

==History==
According to the [[Hagiography]] of the [[Secgan|Secgan Manuscript]] the village is the burial place of [[Saint]] Cuthflæd of Lyminster.<ref>[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 Library</ref><ref>The [[Oxford Dictionary of Saints]], [[Oxford University Press]].</ref>

==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 [[Dragonslayers|dragonslayer]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==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=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|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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[[Category:Arun District]]
[[Category:Villages in West Sussex]]