Antique Church Furnishings, which describes itself as ‘God’s Furniture since 1985’, sells almost everything in the religious line – from chasubles to crucifixes and misericordes to missal stands.
The stock comes from redundant churches but mostly from those which are “modernising or just having a crypt clear-out, selling the old furnishings to fund their reordering”, said Lawrence Skilling, co-owner with Steve Williams of the business at Fryleigh Farm Barn in Betchworth, Surrey.
Long-term exhibitors at past Salvo fairs, Skilling and Williams moved to Betchworth a year ago from Walton-on-Thames. Skilling said of their new premises: “Gone are the large brown rats of Walton that scampered through our leaking sheds there; now we have some really pretty pale brown and white field mice instead.