Memorial to farming's bravest lads and men

A NEW memorial was dedicated at St Mary Magdalene Church, Tortington, near Arundel, on Saturday.

Tucked behind a farm and built to serve the lay tenants of Tortington Priory, this tiny rustic church was restored around 1860 and the now-redundant church is now cared for by the Historic Churches Trust.

Earlier this year, Dr Frances Hurd, then Sussex representative of the Churches Conservation Trust, found mouldy documents in the church vestry which gave a poignant insight into life and death in the West Sussex farming community in the First World War.

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