Staplefield is a village in the Mid Sussex District of

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an a ...

, England, situated north-west of

Haywards Heath Haywards Heath is a town in West Sussex, England, south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and northeast of the county town, Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawl ...

on the B2114 road. It is part of Ansty and Staplefield

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

where the 2011 Census population information is included. The Anglican parish church built in 1847 is dedicated to

St. Mark Mark the Evangelist ( la, Marcus; grc-gre, Μᾶρκος, Mârkos; arc, ܡܪܩܘܣ, translit=Marqōs; Ge'ez: ማርቆስ; ), also known as Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Accor ...

and contains wall paintings by the Victorian stained glass designer

Charles Eamer Kempe Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lich ...

. In 1994, Reverend Anthony Freeman, vicar of St Mark's was dismissed by the

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Eric Kemp Eric Waldram Kemp (27 April 1915 – 28 November 2009) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Chichester from 1974 to 2001. He was one of the leading Anglo-Catholics of his generation and one of the most influential figures in the C ...

, when he stated that he didn't believe in GodBBC Website
/ref> and published his book ''God in Us: A Case for Christian Humanism''. He is currently managing editor of ''The Journal of Consciousness Studies''. The village also has a Roman Catholic church dedicated to

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. There are two

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s, The Jolly Tanners and The Victory Inn, the latter is named after the legal victory in gaining permission to be a pub not after Horatio Nelson's flagship, ''

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'', despite his sister, Catherine Matcham, living in nearby

Slaugham Slaugham () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located to the south of Crawley, on the A23 road to Brighton. The civil parish covers an area of . At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,22 ...

. The pub sign shows a picture of a judge and a document inside the pub shows details of the case. There is also a red park next to the pubs. The pubs are adjacent to the village green and cricket pitch.

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Photographs of St. Mark’s churchStaplefield Home Guard Auxiliary Unit
Villages in West Sussex Mid Sussex District {{WestSussex-geo-stub