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Coombes Church This very popular church has recently been restored, so well in fact, it won the Sussex HeritageTrust Award for Ecclesiastical Buildings 2009. A tiny one cell building it is situated adjacent to Coombe farm with which it shares an an entrance drive. To get to the church having parked your transport in the farm, you make a short walk through a grazing meadow and enter the churchyard through a Tapselll gate - unique to Sussex. 
The church is renowned for its 12th century wall paintings which were only discovered in 1949 and uncovered and treated in 1952. Not all the paintings are ancient, there are one or two 17th century. Another find made in the 19th century was a small 14th century gilded cruciifix, found in the churchyard, but sadly much of the gilding had been destroyed. It can be found high up on a window reveal next to the porch doorway . 
When I visted the church in 2007 the roof was in a very poor state being part covered with corrugated iron sheets. Since the renovation 2008/9 it has been transformed with Horsham stone tiles. I looked in the visitors book this year (09) and found an entry from a couple who now live in Norfolk who were here revisiting the place where they took their wedding vows in 1969.
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