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Farmers Market in Steyning High Street Car park (Opposite the clock tower) 9am until 1pm on the first Saturday of the month
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Our award-winning Farmers Market sells high quality local produce including a delicious selection of vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, bread and cakes, fruit juices and dairy products etc. We are proud to announce that the Steyning Farmers Market won the Sussex Food and Drink Awards BEST Farmers Market in 2015 and if you have not yet visited our farmers market (held on the first Saturday of every month) you are definitely missing out on a wonderful experience.
Creating An Imaginary World - Theatre Design From Temple to Playhouse, Into The Picture Frame And Out Again by Bertie Pearce Monday 13th June 2022
Theatre design is one of the world’s most beautiful, varied and lively art forms. This lecture looks at the relationship between actor and audience and how this transformed the space and architecture of theatre throughout the ages - from the Greeks to court theatre, the Globe to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, looking at great architects, practitioners and designers. This lecture aims to bring to life the magical world of theatre.
The Steyning Centre, Fletchers Croft, BN44 3XZ 10:00am - 12:00. Free to members, £10 donation for visitors. steyning@theartssociety.org www.theartssocietysteyning.org.uk
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St Mary’s Church Weathervane
A curious artefact that is kept inside St. Mary’s Church in Storrington is its original galleon shaped weathervane, which has a cross stamped into its sail.
When it stood on the roof of the church it was said that no matter which way the wind blew the weathervane remained fixed in place, rather than showing the direction of the wind. The local blacksmith Alfred Crowhurst forged it and it was designed by Paul Hardy and funded by Herbert Valentine Ravenscroft. Paul Hardy was born on the 2nd of August 1862 in Bath Somerset and educated in Clifton, West Yorkshire. He settled in Chelsea, London in 1886, and married Ida Mary Wilton Clarke on 28th of July 1888 at St. Matthias church, Earl’s Court, in Kensington. The couple moved to the cottages in Church Street, Storrington. Paul worked as an illustrator for the youth magazine Chums and the Strand Magazine that published the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Paul illustrated over 170 books. These included the reprinted works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Victor Hugo and other authors of literary classics. As an artist Paul exhibited only two of his portraits at the Royal Academy. ‘His Majesty Henry VIII visits Sir Thomas More at Chelsea’ was shown in 1890. ‘There it befell, that as they rode near a forest, they saw a damsel and her dwarf sore distressed’ was displayed in 1899. A third painting he was known for was the ‘Canterbury Pilgrims’ completed in1903.
Paul was also a skilled metalworker and known for making his own replica of medieval armour. He became a consultant to the Armoury Department at the British Museum and to the Sotheby’s Auction House. In recognition of his study of medieval arms and armour Paul was granted a Civil List pension of £80 in 1932. In recognition of his illustrative works he was then awarded a pension by the Royal Academy Of Art. Paul Hardy died in Storrington on the 2nd of January 1942.Herbert Valentine Ravenscroft was born on 16th of May 1868, at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. At twenty-five years old, he married Helen McLean in 1893, in Manhattan, New York City. At thirty-six years old, both Hart’s Army List and the London Gazette of the 10th February 1905, list him as a major both in the Manchester Regiment and the Border Regiment, serving with the Anglo-Egyptian Army. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1908. Colonel Ravenscroft and his family moved to Abbey Lodge, Storrington in 1920. He became a farmer and a magistrate and was known for his cheery spirit and generosity. Troubled by a war wound that caused him to limp, he established the Comrades Club for First World War veterans. This was the forerunner to the Royal British Legion. He provided the veterans of Storrington with land to use as a bowling club as well as land for a children’s playground in the village. He was featured in Hugh de Selincourt’s classic book ‘The Cricket Match’ as he organised the annual inter-village match. The Storrington cricket team became known as the ‘Colonel’s
Eleven’. He even funded a flag and flagpole for the Storrington Cricket Club. Colonel Ravenscroft paid for the St. Mary’s Church weathervane, as well as for the old Caen Stone pulpit to be replaced and the restoration of choir stalls. In 1938, the entire village turned out to watch the wedding of his daughter Pat Ravenscroft to Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot. A carpet was laid from the door of the house (The Abbey) to the church for the bride to be escorted along by her father. Colonel Ravenscroft became President of the Storrington Horticultural Society in 1945. Another object linked to the Colonel is a rather lethal-looking hand powered hedge trimmer. To make it work, its wheel had to be cranked. This saw-tooth bladed contraption has his initials burned into the handles and is on display at the Storrington Museum.
Judy Upton
Source:
London Gazette Hart’s Army List ‘The Weathervanes Of Sussex’ by Brigid Chapman Storrington Museum Wikipedia Goulburn Evening Penny Post Tuesday 24th of August 1937,
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