This is our good friend Phyllis's home church. The church is entered through a porch into the north door.
Here is the inside, looking towards the chancel and east window. The 12th Century Chancel arch is beautiful in its simplicity. The communion rail was purchased from a church in Sheffield for £1 as it was blackened by sulphur fumes. It was cleaned and installed it in the church by Phyllis's father, Mr Marriot, who lived at the manor in Haddon and is buried in the churchyard.
Haddon Church only has one stained glass window, above the altar at the east end which was given by Lionel Trower in memory of his brother Lt Cornwallis Jasper Trower, killed at Majuba Hill on 27th February 1881. All the other windows contain clear glass, and as a result the building is flooded with light.
The font has a plain octagonal bowl and tapering sides and is possibly 14th century. It is mounted on a modern stem and base. The delightful, tiny, pipe organ is also shown below.
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There are stone seats against the west walls of the transepts and the side walls of the aisles. These were for the old and for nursing mothers, and is how the expression "the weak to the wall" arose. On the south wall, this stone figure of a lion has been mounted at the end of the stone seat adjacent to the south door. Sadly, time has not treated this figure well although it is still recognisable.
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