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St Nicholas’ Historical Quiz Answers

All answers can be found inside St Nicholas’ Church, Worth and no ladders are required!

1. Which former Rector of Worth was awarded the Croix de Guerre?
The Revd. Leonard Norman Phillips (see ledger slab to N of the altar in the N porticus)
2. In a dream, the ouroboros inspired August Kekulé to describe the structure of benzene.  Three memorials at Worth bear the ouroboros: who do they commemorate, and what does the symbol mean here?
Mary Norman (W wall of S porticus); Gilbert East Joliffe (S nave wall near font); William Lambe (N nave wall near font).  They indicate resurrection and eternity.
3. Where can you see the Pelican in Her Piety (pecking her breast to feed her chicks with her blood)?
The right quatrefoil in the window in the S wall of the S porticus
4. Who was (sic) “Solliciter to the King”?

Sir Robert Heath (see memorial on N wall above the pulpit).

5. Who, as a gift of whom, went up in the world in 1610?
The Choir, whose W gallery was the gift of The Late Revd. Anthony Lynton.
6. Who exhorts us to believe, repent, hope, love, pray, hate to sin, and renounce the world?
Thomas Whitfeld (memorial on E wall of N porticus).
7. Who died of smallpox at the age of 38?
Bysshe Shelley (memorial at W end of N nave wall).
8. The catalogue of worthy women includes who?
Elizabeth Whitfeld. (memorial W wall of N Porticus).
9. A holder of the VC is remembered at Worth, but where is he buried?
Wing Commander Hugh Gordon Malcolm.  Buried in Beja War Cemetery, Tunisia, December 1942.
10. The Holy Spirit in the form of a Dove appears to be involved in a Red Arrows flypast.  Where?
Stained Glass memorial to GLJ and GAJ (1944/55) in window on E wall of N porticus, above the altar).

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