Wiggonholt Parish Church
You can spend a lot of time looking at the ancient walls of a church like the one at Wiggonholt, but the roof tells the more interesting story. Those aren't slates, they’re huge, heavy slabs of Horsham Stone, a kind of sandstone dug out the ground only a few miles away. It’s incredibly dense and would have given the original 12th-century builders a real problem. They had to build a remarkably strong timber frame inside to stop the sheer weight of the roof from pushing the walls over. You can't see it from the outside, but that hidden structure is what has held the whole thing together for the last nine hundred years.
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Inside, there’s a surprise. Those two large oil lamps are necessary because there’s no electricity supply. Services are held by the light of oil and candle, a decision that preserves an atmosphere that wiring and spotlights would instantly erase. It is a deliberate commitment to a quieter, more focused form of light.
