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1. St Mary the Virgin, Aldingbourne, Sussex, England

Parish church
The nave of Aldingbourne has a blocked N arcade, with traces of 12thc. or 13thc. painted geometric decoration on the face of the second arch from the W and on the soffit of the doorway in the westernmost bay. Traces of a Norman window can be seen in one of the S arcade spandrels. The E bay of the S aisle is roofed with a rib vault and has crocket capitals and dogtooth mouldings. A tower was built on the N side of the church in the 13thc. The chancel is the same height and width as the nave, and has a vestry on the S side.
2. St Pancras, Arlington, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church incorporates Anglo-Saxon and late 12thc. fabric, the latter including a pointed arch with an impost block decorated with large dogtooth. No Romanesque sculpture remains in situ although there are two loose fragments in the church.
3. St James, Ashurst, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a nave, a S porch, a wide S aisle which ends in a chapel, and chancel. The aisle chapel and SW tower were builtc.1200, and the chancel dates from the 13thc.
4. St Mary, Barnham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a single nave, with a square weather-boarded bell-cote at the W end. There are two Norman windows on the S side, and a blocked arcade with pointed arches in the N wall. A timber truss serves to divide the nave from the 13thc. chancel. There is an organ chamber and vestry on the N side.
5. St Mary, Battle, Sussex, England

Parish Church
The church comprises a late 12thc. aisled nave, a 13thc. W tower, and a chancel ofc.1240, with a chapel on its N and S sides. The nave arcades have pointed arches on alternating octagonal and cylindrical piers with foliate capitals. The font is the only carved Romanesque feature.
6. St Andrew, Bishopstone, Sussex, England

Parish church
The Anglo-Saxon origins of Bishopstone church are visible in the long and short quoining of the nave and S porticus, and two windows in the W wall of the nave. A scratch dial set over the S doorway is also thought to be Anglo-Saxon. It is inscribed: +EADRIC.
7. Boxgrove Priory, Boxgrove, Sussex, England

Originally Benedictine Priory, now parish church
Boxgrove church comprises an aisled choir, a crossing tower, N and S transepts, and an aisled nave. Only the E bay of the nave is incorporated within the present church; the rest lies in ruins beyond the W wall, which contains the remains of the monastic pulpitum. Due to the presence of the cloister on the N side of the church, only the westernmost 2.5 double bays of the nave had a N aisle. The earliest surviving parts of the building are the plain N and S transepts and the easternmost bay of the nave (c.1120-50). A phased rebuilding programme seems to have begunc.1180-1200, with the 'transitional' central tower, followed by the westernmost five bays of the nave. The rib-vaulted chancel (c.1200-20) is Early English in style, and makes extensive decorative use of Purbeck shafts. Little survives of the monastic buildings. The weathered facade of the chapterhouse probably dates from the mid-12thc. and the ruined guest-house, standing in a field to the NE, is of the 14thc.
8. Broadwater (Worthing), Sussex, England

Parish church
This unusually large but (unfortunately) heavily restored parish church comprises a chancel, central tower, transepts, S vestry and an aisled and clerestoried nave with N and W porches. The earliest part is the central tower (mid-12thc.), with transepts, which were either added or remodelled later in the same century. The nave and chancel date from the 13thc. and the W front was built in 1887.
9. St Mary the Virgin, Burpham, Sussex, England

Parish church
Burpham has a W tower, a nave with a S aisle, N and S transepts and a vaulted chancel with a Victorian arch (1869). There are Norman windows in the W and N walls of the N transept.
10. Chichester Cathedral (Holy Trinity), Chichester, Sussex, England

Cathedral
Chichester Cathedral is situated within the SW quadrant of the city, which was originally laid out by the Romans. A small, irregular cloister ('Paradise') on the S side gives access to the Chapel of St Faith, the 15thc.Vicar's Close, and St Richard's Lane. The Bishop's Palace lies to the SW, and there are a number of clergy houses to the S, along Canon Lane (see separate entry for No.4 Canon Lane). A detached tower stands to the NW.
11. St Mary, Eastbourne, Sussex, England

Parish church
This is an unusually large parish church, with a W tower, an aisled nave with five-bay arcades, and an aisled choir with three-bay arcades. The W bay of the nave is clearly a later addition, possibly built with the tower,c.1300. The aisles have an alternating system of round and octagonal piers, with slightly pointed arches carved with complex mouldings (including chevron, fillets, hollows and keel mouldings), and capitals displaying a wide variety of motifs including upright and wind-blown stiff-leaf, and crockets. With the exception of the chevron, this repertoire is Early English in character rather than Romanesque. The presence of the chevron makes it 'Transitional'.
12. St James, Heyshott, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a W bell-turret, a S porch, a N aisle, and a chancel with a modern flat-roofed vestry on its N side. The three-bay N arcade, which has moulded capitals and chamfered, pointed arches, is Early English in style.
13. St Mary Magdalene, Lyminster, Sussex, England

Bendictine Nunnery, now parish church
The church has a W tower (13thc), a large, high nave (Anglo-Saxon), a N aisle (c.1200) and a long, square-ended chancel (Anglo-Saxon and later). The W and N doorways are 12thc. (early and late respectively), but plain.
14. St Mary De Haura, New Shoreham, Sussex, England

Chapel/Parish church
This unusually large parish church comprises an aisled choir, crossing tower, transept, and one nave bay, the remainder of the nave having collapsed in the early 18thc. The church was founded in the late 1120s or 1130s (see History, below), and the crossing tower (except for the upper bell-stage), transepts and nave date from the mid-12thc., as does the font. The first chancel had an apsidal termination, and a campaign to add aisles to its sides was undertaken - but possibly not completed - around 1160. The chancel was rebuilt as a fully-fledged choir, complete with aisles and galleries, in the late 12thc. and early 13thc. At the same time an additional bell-stage was added to the tower. The footings of the nave walls, which had collapsed by 1720, can be seen in the graveyard to the W of the church.
15. St Peter, Selsey, Sussex, England

Parish church
A new parish church was erected on a new site in 1864-66, incorporating the nave arcades of the old church. The 13thc. chancel of the old church ('St Wilfrid's Chapel'), located at Church Norton, was left standing.
16. St Mary, Shipley, Sussex, England

Parish church, originally preceptory (?)
This is essentially a 12thc. church, comprising a nave with a N aisle (1893), a central tower with large, single bell openings and a square chancel. The N aisle and vestry were added by JL Pearson in 1893.
17. St Mary, Slindon, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a W tower, an aisled nave with opposing N and S porches, a High Victorian chancel arch, and large square chancel with neo-Norman organ recess on N side. One Norman window survives, above the N arcade.
18. St John the Baptist, Sutton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a W tower (c.1300), a nave (c.1100) with a S aisle (early 13thc.), a N transept (14thc.?) and a long square-ended chancel (14thc.?).
19. St Michael and All Angels, Southwick, Sussex, England

Parish church
The late 12thc. W tower was rebuilt in 1950 after bomb damage, and vestries were added to either side. The nave and aisles were rebuilt in 1835, following a fire, but the chancel is medieval. The vestry and organ chamber on the S side of the chancel date from 1893, at which time the medieval S arcade was reopened.
20. All Hallows, Tillington, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a W porch, nave, N and S aisles of 3 bays each, and a chancel with an organ chamber on the N side. In 1807 a tower was built on the S side of the chancel, and the N aisle was added. The S nave arcade dates from the late 12thc.
21. St Michael and All Angels, Up Marden, Sussex, England

Parish church
This 13thc. church has a W tower, a fairly broad single-cell nave with a S porch, and a chancel entered through a triangular-headed arch, lying within a larger pointed arch.
22. St Peter ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, Sussex, England

Parish Church
The remains of an 11thc. nave, devoid of sculptural detail, are detectable at the W end of the church. The aisles were addedc.1200, and the W tower, clerestorey and chancel slightly later, in the 13thc.