The poem also claims Harold was buried by the sea which is consistent with William of Poitiers ' account and with the identification of the grave at Bosham Church which is only yards from Chichester Harbour and in sight of the English Channel.

Gifford's memorial within Bosham Church

In 850, the original village church was built on the site of the Roman basilica, and in the tenth century was replaced with Holy Trinity Church, situated beside Bosham Quay, that still serves as the local place of worship.

Holy Trinity Church, Bosham.

George Gervase was born at Bosham, Sussex, in 1569, and seems to have been received into the Catholic Church when he was aged about thirty.

Bosham have won the Division Three title on three occasions-and finished runner-up once-earning promotion to Division Two, but each spell has eventually resulted in relegation back to Division Three, where they remain as of the 2011-12 season.

The known biographers are John of Salisbury, Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fitz Stephen, Guernes of Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Robert of Cricklade, Alan of Tewkesbury, Benet of St Albans, and Herbert of Bosham.

Some of the many characters who are named after places in the vicinity of Emsworth include Lord Emsworth's heir, Viscount Bosham, Lady Anne Warblington, Lord Stockheath, the Duchess of Havant ( in A Gentleman of Leisure ), and Lord Arthur Hayling ( in The Prince and Betty ).

Harold's strong association with Bosham and the recent discovery of a Saxon grave in the church has led some historians to speculate that King Harold was buried here following his death at the Battle of Hastings, rather than Waltham Abbey as is often reported.

Norman influence was already strong in Sussex before the Conquest: the abbey of Fécamp had interest in the harbours of Hastings, Rye, Winchelsea and Steyning ; while the estate of Bosham was held by a Norman chaplain to Edward the Confessor.

Harold's strong association with Bosham, his birthplace, and the discovery in 1954 of an Anglo-Saxon coffin in the church there, has led some to suggest it as the place of King Harold's burial.

A request to exhume a grave in Bosham church was refused by the Diocese of Chichester in December 2003, the Chancellor having ruled that the chances of establishing the identity of the body as Harold's were too slim to justify disturbing a burial place.

In Uncle Fred in the Springtime, she is once again taken captive, and hidden in a bathroom by the Duke of Dunstable, but flees when Lord Bosham lets off a shutgun in her vicinity.

There is general agreement that he left from Bosham, and was blown off course, landing at Ponthieu.

Bosham () is a small coastal village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England, about ) west of Chichester on an inlet of Chichester Harbour.

Bosham is colloquially divided into two halves: Old Bosham and New Bosham.

The village is served by Bosham railway station.

Forming a part of Chichester Harbour, Bosham is renowned for its sailing with Bosham Sailing Club being formed in 1907.

Tradition holds that Emperor Vespasian maintained a residence in Bosham, although there is little evidence of this.

Bosham is mentioned by name in the Bayeux Tapestry, referring to the 1064 meeting of Harold and Edward the Confessor on the way to meet William of Normandy to discuss who would succeed Edward to the throne:

Bosham Cygnets is a youth football team who currently compete at both Under 15 and Under 18 level-where the club has two sides-in the Arun & Chichester Youth League.

In 1332, he received many new properties: Hinton and Spaine in Berkshire ; Great Haseley, Ascott, Deddington, Pyrton and Kirtlington in Oxfordshire ; Wincomb in Buckinghamshire ; Longbenington in Lincolnshire ; Kneesol in Nottinghamshire ; Newnsham in Gloucestershire, Wix in Essex, and Bosham in Sussex.

In Uncle Fred in the Springtime, when we next meet him, he cons slow-minded Lord Bosham of his wallet just for the sake of it, and heads merrily down to Blandings Castle in the guise of Sir Roderick Glossop, with Pongo taking the role of his nephew and secretary, Basil.

Alice Hayles died in 1330, when a chantry was founded for her soul in Bosham, Sussex.

New Bosham constitutes the more developed northern half of the village, situated around the A259 road and the railway line.

Old Bosham includes the remaining geographical protrusion to the south.

This includes the site of the original village around Bosham Harbour, as well as the tracts of farmland and private property of Bosham Hoe.

Bede mentions Bosham in his book The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, speaking of St Wilfred's visit here in 681 when he encountered a Celtic monk, Dicul, and five disciples in a small monastery.

Legend has it that Bosham was the site at which he commanded the waves to " go back ", so as to demonstrate to his overly deferential courtiers the limits of a King's powers.

Both the Spanish colonial state and the Church expected higher tax and proportionate tribute payments from those of darker color and lower socio-racial categories.

Before the advent of government-funded public schools, the primary mode of education for those of the lower classes was the charity school, pioneered during the 19th century by Protestant organizations and adapted for use by the Roman Catholic Church and governmental bodies.

When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

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This splendor and corruption at the head of the Church found its way to the lower ranks: when a bishop had to pay up to a year's income for gaining a benefice, he sought ways of raising this money from his new office.

The Church of the Dormition was destroyed in 1922 ; only the lower portions of some of its walls survive today.

Francis Atterbury, Dean of Christ Church thought a 90 ft room would be built on Exeter College land, and that the lower storey would be a library for Exeter College and the upper story Radcliffe's Library.

On the continent, while the nobles were acquiring a taste for Church plunder, there was the added element of mass discontent against ecclesiastical power and wealth among common people and the lower levels of clergy and civil society.

The electorate of the ARP changed in the interbellum-the difference between lower class Protestants who voted ARP and middle class Protestant Protestants who voted CHU began to disappear, with religious differences between the Dutch Reformed Church ( CHU ) and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands ( ARP ) becoming more important.

The Ebenezer Hayden House ( third from the river ) was the initial hip-roof house in the lower valley, and the current Episcopal Church Rectory ( the Richard Hayden Dwelling ) was the first brick house in the lower valley.

Image: First Baptist Church in Spartanburg ( lower view ) IMG_4827. JPG | First Baptist Church ( pastor Don Wilton, 2012 ) is located in Spartanburg at 250 East Main Street.

The most representative buildings are the Church of St. Martin of Tours, the Casa Codazzi and the Old School, all in the lower part of town.

The Armenian Apostolic Church presently has two catholicoi ( His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians ; and Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia ), and two patriarchs, plus primates, archbishops and bishops, lower clergy and laity serving the Church.

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The Church of St. Nicholas was established in the 13th century as a three-naved basilica, of which the western portal and the lower part of the tower remain in place.

She died at the home of her youngest daughter on July 16, 1849, and was interred next to her husband in the lower level of Mother Bethel AME Church.

There were class interests and differences of opinion inside the Church as well as out, with many of the lower clergy — and a few bishops, such as Talleyrand -- among the key supporters of the early phases of the revolution.

The lower house of Convocation elected him prolocutor, in which capacity he drew up, in 1711, the often-cited Representation of the State of Religion ; and in August 1711, the queen, who had selected him as her chief adviser in ecclesiastical matters, appointed him dean of Christ Church on the death of his old friend and patron Aldrich.

On September 24, 2009, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of Westboro Baptist Church and reversed the lower court's award.

The West Church has recently gone through major renovation which involved the creation of two floors in the Church building-the upper being used for Sunday worship, funerals, weddings and concerts and the lower housing a popular cafe and fairtrade shop as well as the church office.