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the Southover Shark Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the altar Once upon a time (in the ninth century AD), Pope Nicholas I is said to have issued a decree: Every church in Christendom must attach the image of a cockerel to its steeple. Why? To remind churchgoers how easy it is to sin. After all, even Peter, Christ’s doughtiest disciple, had been known to transgress. Three times in one night he was asked if he was a follower of Jesus. Three times he said no. But as dawn broke, and the cockerel crowed, Peter realised his betrayal… A cockerel was a graphic symbol of the weakness of the flesh and many churches, even now, have one as their weather vane. But not all. In 1813 the rector of St John the Baptist, Southover, broke with the rooster trend and commissioned an almighty fish for the top of his church tower. Not, as Gideon Mantell’s biographer Sydney Spokes believed, a salmon (see last month’s Viva), but a six-foot-six hollow copper basking shark. But why did the Southover rector choose this plankton-munching giant of the seas as the model for his weather vane? Granted, a fish is a common Christian symbol. Fish/ fishermen/ fishers of men are regularly mentioned in the Bible. But basking sharks themselves tend not to get much of a mention. The truth is that the choice wasn’t Biblically inspired. Instead it was prompted by an event that occurred in Brighton a few months earlier. On December 5th 1812 a Brighton fisherman called Collins made the catch of his life. He landed a gargantuan basking shark, measuring over 30 feet long – more than nine metres - from snout to tail. Stood on end it would have been higher than a two-storey house. The sight of it caused quite a stir as it was dragged up Brighton beach. Artists came to draw it, journalists to report it, and one entrepreneur bought the body for £600 (a small fortune) and whisked it off to be exhibited in London. www.vivaLewes.CoM Lewes in 100 obJeCTs The eight-ton carcase was transported to Grosvenor Square on a carriage pulled by 12 horses. In London handbills were put up, exhorting the Great British Public to come and see ‘This Astonishing Sea Monster!!!’. The price of admission was a shilling. Given the amount paid for the shark (not to mention the transportation and exhibition costs) the organiser must have expected to attract viewings from well over 12,000 people. And why not? This basking shark had fired people’s imaginations. It had certainly inspired the Southover rector. His new weather vane would commemorate the huge fish. The creature of the depths would ascend to the skies. But not everyone was impressed. 174 years later, in 1987, the Great Storm blew the weather vane off its perch and down to the ground. When the then-Rector, Peter Markby, went to inspect it, he discovered that someone - at some point - had taken the odd pot shot at the shark. There were pellet holes in its flanks. The Victorian weather vane had become the holey basking shark of Southover. Katie Masters 73 Photo by Katie Masters
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