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PYRAMID TOMB OF MAD JACK

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St Thomas a Beckett Churchyard, Brightling, Sussex

‘Egyptomani­a’ saw pyramids popping up in churchyard­s in Georgian and Victorian times. John

‘Mad Jack’ Fuller, an eccentric MP, is said to sit in his pyramid at a table set with a roast chicken and bottle of port so he won’t suffer hunger or thirst come the Resurrecti­on.

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