Identifier: sussexarchaeolog57suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
Subjects: Sussex (England) -- Antiquities Periodicals England -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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an seems,in spite of this unpropitious reception, to have taken thebreakdown of his wheelbarrow as a sign from Heaventhat Steyning was his resting-place on earth, and heproceeded to build a wooden church on the site of thepresent noble stone building. Here, in due course, withfilial piety, he laid his mother to rest, and later was him-self buried in the odour of sanctity; and it was not long-before a shrine was erected over his bones, at whichpilgrims from far and wide paid their devotions, andmany wonderful cures were vouchsafed to the crippledand sick. What is quite possibly the grave-slab ofCuthman has lately been restored to the church from aneighbouring garden, and may be seen in the porch. It 150 STEYNING CHURCH. bears a rude double cross in low relief, and is certainly ofpre-Conquest date. A second slab is probably as old,and may be conjecturally assigned to the saints mother.The Bishop-King, Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great,according to Asser, was buried here in a.d. 858.
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^i^e^tyity^: Or^ve-sl<^b d»5i^9e«^ f^ SifCuiiprr)^ Before dealing with the fabric it may be as well togive some short account of the history of the church.^It was given, with the manor, to the Benedictine monksof Fecamp, near Dieppe, by King Edward the Confessorabout 1047. From them it was taken away by Harold,but it was restored to the Norman Abbey by theConqueror. Probably at the time of its grant toFecamp, certainly by the date of the Domesday Survey(1086), Steyning Church was collegiate, being served bythree canons,^ between whom the issues were divided.Although called a Deanery by Gervase in 1200, thehead of the prebendaries or canons seems really to havebeen termed Provost, that title being applied toNicholas de Plumton ia 1252. Between 1283 and 1290the collegiate establishment seems to have come to anend, but Steyning remained a peculiar, exempt from 1 Victoria Hist. Stissex, II., 122. 2 A eeal of the chiirch shows three tousvued heads, one above the other : Ibid, STEYNING

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