CHURCHES of SUSSEX
Friston Monument
In a small chapel lie the Selwyns, who lived at Friston
Place in Shakespeare's day.
Thomas kneels with his wife, their six daughters kneel
in prayer in front of them, and three babies lie under a table. Very
odd they look in this fine tomb with painted grasshoppers creeping up the
sides.
There is also a remarkable chair here. It is
made of black oak and covered with extraordinary figures, dolphins with their
tails encircling a human face, a queer little man with a staff, one of those
imaginary basilisks that struck terror to men in the Middle Ages, and strangely
carved serpents.
It comes down to us from the days before man knew wild
creatures as they are and had to imagine them.
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