Bosham Church wedding | Ellen & Oliver

BOSHAM CHURcH WEDDING
Bosham church sits close to the quay in the small Sussex village near Chichester. Holy Trinity church, surrounded by flint walls, is considered the oldest place of worship in Sussex. This Grade I listed building sits on Saxon foundations, in turn, that may sit on the remains of a Roman Basilica. The Roman Palace at Fishbourne is just up the road. Certainly, the Romans were nearby. An enormous sculpted marble head, known as ‘the Bosham Head’, much eroded and weighing 170kg was found in a local garden in 1800. It is now thought this could have been part of a twice than life-size statue of the Emperor Trajan that once stood at the entrance to the harbour. According to Bede it all began with “… a Scots monk named Dicul who had a very small monastery at a place called Bosanham, surrounded by woods and the sea, where five or six brothers served the Lord in a life of humility and poverty: but none of the natives was willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching.”
But Bosham has its links to two famous characters in English history, Kings Canute and Harold. Legend has it that King Canute’s daughter drowned in an accident nearby and was buried in the church. A grave was found in the 1950s but no proof as such. As for Harold – he of the arrow in his eye at other Battle of Hastings, 1066 and all that, this was his home. The Bayeux Tapestry shows him sailing from Bosham over to Normandy. So a small, picturesque village on Chichester harbour with some links to the country’s history. On this day the September sun shone for Ellen and Oliver, as they got married at Bosham church.
Here are a few images from this Bosham church wedding with a garden reception back at the family home nearby…