The little church of the Holy Sepulchre in Warminghurst near Thakeham in West Sussex is no longer used for services and is run by the Churches Conservation Trust.
It dates from about 1220 and is noted both for its east window and for the fine interior woodwork.
The most important memorial in the church is a large brass to Edward Shelley, an ancestor of the poet, dated 1544.
Although William Penn appears not to have been connected to the church, he knew it well and wrote the first constitution of the state of Pennsylvania while living in Warminghurst.
An order for his arrest, issued in 1684 for holding unlawful assemblies in his house at Warminghurst, still exists in Lewes.
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