St Richard

The larger than life statue of St Richard outside Chichester Cathedral, by Philip Jackson, commissioned for the Millenium.

St Richard was the first Bishop of Chichester: On his death, his heart was buried in Dover and his body taken back to Chichester. Three years later he was canonized on 22 January 1262. On 16 June 1276, in the presence of King Edward I, Queen Eleanor, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops, and a great crowd of people, his body was moved to the shrine behind the high altar where it became a place of pilgrimage and prayer for the people of Sussex.