Arundel (part 1)

25th Oct - great day - cool breeze

We are saying with good friend Janet in Worthing. Just down the coast from Brighton. It was a nice day so we decided to go to Arundel (only about 20-30 mins away), even though we knew that the castle would be closed.
Betty shot this picture from the car - of this part of the castle, there is much more......


So we visited the Roman Catholic cathedral instead. This was built and paid for by one of the Duke's of Norfolk (who own the castle) in the mid-19th century.














Then we walked to the Parish church almost next door. This was quite an interesting church built before 1042, with traces of medieval wall paintings still visible on some walls.

But the really interesting thing is that there is a glass screen 1/2 way down the nave as the 'far' end is the Roman Catholic chapel joined to the castle. So the church is actually an Anglican parish church and an RC chapel under one roof! It's a long story how this happened but it must be almost unique in the world and it's probably covered somewhere on the web.

We'll be going back to Arundel on Wed on our way through to Southampton, to check out our (possibly) last castle