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). |