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The door on the left was once the door to the post office.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.1km<br/>A steam excursion hauled by A4 ex LNER Pacific 60019 "Bittern", which usually works on the Mid Hants Railway. The excursion, from Haywards Heath to Bath, was running nearly an hour late. It had stopped at Hedge End and Salisbury stations for water, so we took the opportunity to drive to this location where we hoped to get a shot with the cathedral in the background. Unfortunately she was making such a fuss of accelerating away to make up some lost time that the cathedral is lost in there somewhere.

©Graham Horn

Dist:0.1km<br/>The window commemorates the friendship between Nicholas Ferrar and the poet George Herbert who were priestly colleagues in the seventeenth century.

©nick macneill

Dist:0.1km<br/>This church was replaced as the parish church by St. John's a little to the west. St. Andrew's was the church that the poet-priest George Herbert would have ministered in when he was vicar here in the early 17th Century. There is a stained glass window commemorating him inside the church.

©nick macneill

Dist:0.2km<br/>The altar frontal was designed by Jane Lemon and made by members of the Sarum Group of the Embroiderers' Guild and is based on George Herbert's poem The Flower.

How Fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean
Are thy returns! ev�n as the flowers in spring;
To which, besides their own demean,
The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.
Grief melts away
Like snow in May,
As if there were no such cold thing.

Who would have thought my shrivel�d heart
Could have recover�d greennesse? It was gone
Quite under ground; as flowers depart
To see their mother-root, when they have blown;
Where they together
All the hard weather,
Dead to the world, keep house unknown.

These are thy wonders, Lord of power,
Killing and quickning, bringing down to hell
And up to heaven in an houre;
Making a chiming of a passing-bell,
We say amisse,
This or that is:
Thy word is all, if we could spell.

O that I once past changing were;
Fast in thy Paradise, where no flower can wither!
Many a spring I shoot up fair,
Offring at heav�n, growing and groning thither:
Nor doth my flower
Want a spring-showre,
My sinnes and I joining together;

But while I grow to a straight line;
Still upwards bent, as if heav�n were mine own,
Thy anger comes, and I decline:
What frost to that? what pole is not the zone,
Where all things burn,
When thou dost turn,
And the least frown of thine is shown?

And now in age I bud again,
After so many deaths I live and write;
I once more smell the dew and rain,
And relish versing: O my onely light,
It cannot be
That I am he
On whom thy tempests fell all night.

These are thy wonders, Lord of love,
To make us see we are but flowers that glide:
Which when we once can finde and prove,
Thou hast a garden for us, where to bide.
Who would be more,
Swelling through store,
Forfeit their Paradise by their pride.

The Flower (1633) by George Herbert

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.2km<br/>The interior of the tiny church. The church was considerably restored in 1890. For closer view of the altar frontal [[2142337]]

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.2km<br/>This plaque is on the Rectory [[2140046]] and George Herbert is buried in St Andrew's Church opposite [[2139666]]

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.2km<br/>Parts of this chequared flint and stone house dates from the mid 17th century. It was then the home of George Herbert, the Poet Priest.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.2km<br/>The plaque above the door reads
If thou chance for to find
A new House to thy mind
And built without thy Cost
Be good to the Poor,
As God gives thee store,
And then, my Labour's not lost.

©Chris Talbot

Dist:0.2km<br/>George Herbert (1593-1633). The distinguished poet, scholar, and priest spent his later years in this house

©Chris Talbot

Dist:0.2km<br/>The handle is to be found on 17th century door [[2140086]]

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.2km<br/>The door dates from the mid 17th century.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.2km<br/>St Andrews Church and the Old Rectory.

©Chris Talbot

Dist:0.2km<br/>St Andrew's was originally Norman but was largely rebuilt later in the middle ages

©Chris Talbot

Dist:0.2km<br/>St. Andrew's was originally Norman but was largely rebuilt later in the middle ages

©Chris Talbot

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