St. Mary's Church
You're standing on West Street looking towards an Anglican parish church, St. Mary's Church. St. Mary's is about the highest point in Rye. Lamb House is directly behind you. This is the west-facing side of the church. Below is the front of the church.
Note the Blue Plaque, then do the math and think of all the buildings in the United States that you consider "old." Rye is filled to the brim with its storied history. For example, the murder in the church yard at St. Mary's in 1743:
Sometimes, body-shaped iron cages were used to contain the decomposing corpses. For example, in March 1743 in the town of Rye, East Sussex, Allen Grebell was murdered by John Breads. Breads was imprisoned in the Ypres Tower and then hanged, after which his body was left to rot for more than 20 years in an iron cage on Gibbet Marsh. The cage, with Breads's skull clamped within the headframe, is still kept in the town hall.
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