page_title: St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes
section_title: Fixtures and fittings
hierarchical_section_title: St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes / Fixtures and fittings
caption_attribution_description: St Giles' Church, Church Lane, Horsted Keynes, district of Mid Sussex, West Sussex, England. An Anglican church built in the 12th–13th century to serve this village in a rural part of Mid Sussex. This is a stone memorial to 18th-century former rector Rev Ralph Clutton and his son, also a rector.
context_page_description: St Giles' Church is an Anglican church in the village of Horsted Keynes in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Serving an extensive rural parish in the Sussex Weald, it stands at the north end of its village on the site of an ancient pagan place of worship. The present building succeeds the original wattle and daub church, its wooden successor and a Saxon stone building—although the Norman architects who erected the cruciform structure in the 12th century preserved parts of the Saxon fabric.
  Long established local families have been important in the life of the church for centuries, as indicated by the extensive range of memorials and fittings in the building and its large churchyard. The village got its name from the de Cahaignes family, one of whose ancestors is apparently commemorated by the rare 13th-century "heart shrine" in the chancel. Another family with more recent connections to the parish is the Macmillan publishing dynasty, the most famous of whose sons—former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan—is buried in the family plot.
context_section_description: The church has late 19th- and early 20th-century stained glass.  The oldest window is in the north wall of the chancel, designed by the Jones & Willis firm in about 1892.  Charles Eamer Kempe designed the east window of the chancel in 1895; it depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus.  Another Jones & Willis window, dating from 1895 and depicting Faith, is in the crossing, and they also designed a second window in the north wall of the chancel in about 1908.  The west window of the nave has Kempe glass from 1905 depicting the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, and his firm Kempe & Co. installed stained glass in the north aisle in 1910 and 1925 and in the nave in 1919 and 1926.  Later windows include Morris & Co. and Wippell & Co. designs of 1950, both in the north aisle, and a 1956 design by the Barton, Kinder and Alderson firm in the north wall of the chancel.
  The three bells date from the 17th century and are set in a 7-foot (2.1 m) bell-cage contemporary with the spire.  They are inscribed as follows:
  (Treble bell): John Palmar Bel Fovndar made me 1653
  (Call bell): Edmund Giles of Lewes made me Anno Dⁿⁱ 1604
  (Tenor bell): Gloria Deo in excelsis 1633 b e (Bryan Eldridge, represented by the initials b e, cast bells at Chertsey in Surrey between 1618 and 1640.)
  Inside and outside the church are a wide range of memorial tablets, slabs and stones commemorating members of locally important families such as the Wyat(t)s, Lightmakers and Piggot(t)s.  Most date from between the 17th and 19th centuries.  Examples include white marble tablets by the north and east walls of the chancel (the latter is topped with an urn); two grey marble tablets by the south wall—one with an inscribed shield decoration, the other supported on columns with decorative capitals and bearing a shield with a coat of arms; an engraved marble slab near the chancel arch; one embedded in the south transept floor; and a series of blue and white marble stones by the vestry.  Many have lengthy commemorative inscriptions.
  A rare "heart shrine"—a memorial to a parishioner who died abroad (usually during the Crusades) but whose heart was returned and buried in the church—is in the chancel.  It measures 27 inches (69 cm) and is placed in an alcove 34 inches (86 cm) long and 30 inches (76 cm) above the floor.  It was designed in about 1270 and may commemorate Richard de Cahaignes or one of his family.  A study in 1846 described the effigy as being "of a fine grained oolite or sandstone" and taking the form of a cross-legged knight wearing 13th-century armour (painted rather than carved on to the stone, and now invisible) and holding a sword but no shield.  The lower parts of the knight's arms have broken away, but the hands would have been clasped in prayer.  One writer on the subject of effigies has stated that it is "one of the most curious and interesting monumental effigies in Sussex, if not in England".
  The font is simple and unadorned, octagonal in shape and dates from about 1500.  The church also has a brass cross made in Florence in 1550 and restored in 1907.  During its restoration it was inscribed l.c.f. a.m.d.g. k.b.m., referring to the initials of the donors and the Latin phrase "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam" (Glory to God in the highest).  The pulpit, its screen and the lectern were donated to the church at various times; several saints were carved on the pulpit by a member of the local Wyatt family.  The church organ dates from 1904, reused some equipment from its predecessor and cost £310.
caption: Many memorials can be found inside and outside the church.
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