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1. St Bartholomew, Albourne, Sussex, England

Parish church
This church, which was virtually rebuilt by George Gilbert Scott in 1859, comprises a nave, a N aisle with a three-bay arcade, and a small, square-ended chancel. While the chancel arch itself is neo-Norman, the W wall of the churchyard incorporates original 12thc. stonework.
2. 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.
3. St Richard, Aldwick, Sussex, England

Parish church
This Gothic style church was designed by F G Troup and built in 1933. It was described by Nairn as 'the most debilitated kind of Gothic Revival . . . Horrible' (Nairn and Pevsner 1965, 79). There is no medieval fabric.
4. Amberley Castle, Sussex, England

formerly manor house, now hotel
The hotel, originated as a 12thc. manor house, of which the S and W ranges survive, together with a mid-12thc. doorway. Much of the remainder of the site was erected in the late 14thc. (see VII History).
5. St Michael, Amberley, Sussex, England

Parish church
Amberley church comprises a W tower, a nave with a 13thc. S aisle, and a square-ended chancel.
6. St Mary, Apuldram, Sussex, England

Formerly Chapel of Ease, now parish church
The 12thc. nave has received several additions, namely a 13thc. S aisle, a 15thc. S porch and a 19thc. vestry. The nave is not divided from the 13thc.chancel by an arch. There are substantial 19thc. restorations. The font is the only 12thc. carved feature.
7. St Peter, Ardingly, Sussex, England

Parish church
Ardingly church has a W tower (around 15thc.), an aisled nave (N aisle added 1887) and a square chancel, and dates largely fromc.1330. Evidence for an earlier church on the site comes from the cushion capital which was found in the N wall in 1887.
8. 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.
9. Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England

Castle
The motte and bailey castle built at Arundel by Roger of Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in the late 11thc., would have contained mainly wooden structures, although the stone gatehouse is believed to date from that period. In the second half of the 12thc. (c.1170-1190) the circular shell keep was erected, the curtain walls were strengthened and the domestic quarters extended. The castle was ruined during the Civil War, and was largely rebuilt in the late 19thc. (C A Buckler; 1890-1903). This work included the neo-Norman Postern Gate.
10. 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.
11. Bailiffscourt Hotel, Sussex, England

Hotel, formerly private house
The bailiff of the abbey of Séez in Normandy once lived at Bailiffscourt, explaining the presence of a small 13thc. chapel on the site. The present house and outbuildings were erected by Lord Moyne in 1935, to a design by Aymas Phillips. The main house has a courtyard plan on an intimate scale, and is built in a late medieval style, incorporating many imported medieval features. The doorway of the thatched guest-house nearby incorporates several carved 12thc. stones, reportedly retrieved from the walls of a Georgian farmhouse on the Bailiffscourt site. The implication is that the stones had been reused in the walls of that building.
12. 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.
13. Battle Abbey, Sussex, England

Benedictine Abbey
After the suppression of Battle Abbey in 1538, the church and most of the monastic buildings were demolished. Today, only the Great Gate, abbot's lodgings, guest range and dorter survive above ground level, but the footings of other buildings have been exposed.
14. 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.
15. All Saints, Beckley, Sussex, England

Parish church
Beckley church has an 11thc. W tower with herringbone masonry at the lower level. The nave is flanked by aisles with late 13thc. arcades and the chancel seems to date from the early 14thc. The present font is 18thc., but fragments of its 12thc. predecessor survive in the church.
16. St Mary, Bepton, Sussex, England

Parish church
A restored late 12thc. or 13thc. church comprising a single-cell nave with a plain S doorway, a square-ended Victorian chancel and a W tower. It contains a plain Romanesque font.
17. St Peter, Bexhill, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church is largely 19thc. and comprises a W tower, a nave with N and S aisles, a chancel flanked by a vestry (N) and chapel (S). When the church was substantially rebuilt in 1878, the nave arcades were retained.
18. Holy Cross, Bignor, Sussex, England

Parish church
This is a small, 13thc. church, comprising an aisled nave with a bell-turret over the western bay, and a square-ended chancel. The only evidence for earlier work is the depressed chancel arch.
19. St Mary, Binsted, Sussex, England

Parish church
Binsted church has a single nave, with a bell turret at the W end, opposing N and S doorways and one blocked Norman window (N side). The chancel is not separated from the nave by an arch, and has Norman windows on both N and S sides.
20. 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.
21. St Mary Magdalene, Bolney, Sussex, England

Parish church
Bolney church has an early 12thc. nave and a slightly skewed chancel with a N chapel. The W tower was added in 1536-38, the N aisle in 1853 and the N vestry in 1912. The S doorway of the nave dates fromc.1100.
22. Holy Trinity, Bosham, Sussex, England

Collegiate church, now parish church
Bosham church is largely Anglo-Saxon, but the upper storey of the W tower and the first chancel extension were erected after the Conquest. The second chancel extension and the aisles are 13thc. The only Romanesque architectural sculpture in situ belongs to the upper storey of the tower, but the interior houses a font, a pillar piscina and loose architectural fragments of 12thc. date.
23. St Botolph, Botolphs, Sussex, England

Parish church
This is a small flint church with a W tower, a long nave with a blocked 13thc. N arcade, and a square chancel. A Norman window survives in the S side of the nave. The chancel arch is probably late Anglo-Saxon rather than early Norman, but is included in the Corpus on account of its stylistic relationship with Sompting (qv).
24. 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.
25. St Nicholas, Bramber, Sussex, England

Originally Collegiate church, then chapel, now parish church
Of the early Norman 11thc. church, only the nave and tower survive. Since the demolition of the transepts and chancel, the tower has served as the chancel. An addition at W end was built in 1931. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S nave doorway, on a column reset in the W gable and in the tower and transept arches.
26. St Nicholas Brighton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church of St Nicholas stands on a hill overlooking the Old Town of Brighton. It has a W tower, an aisled nave with 5-bay arcades and an aisled chancel flanked by chapels. It is essentially a late 14thc. building, but was largely rebuilt in 1852-54.
27. 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.
28. St Mary The Virgin, Bulverhythe, Sussex, England

Prebendary chapel
A ruined chapel excavated by Thomas Ross in 1861.
29. All Saints, Buncton, Sussex, England

Parish Church
A small church in a rural location, comprising a single nave with opposing N and S doorways and a short, square-ended chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found on a number of reset fragments and on the chancel arch.
30. 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.
31. Burton, Sussex, England

Parish church
A small and charming church comprising a single nave with a two bay crown-post roof and a slightly narrower chancel. An arch close to the W wall of the nave supports the weight of the bell turret. The chancel is separated from the nave by a screen, rood beam and plaster tympanum.
32. St Bartholomew, Burwash, Sussex, England

Parish church
The W tower is all that remains of an early 12thc. church, rebuilt piecemeal with the addition of N and S aisles later in the medieval period.
33. St Bartholomew, Chalvington, Sussex, England

Parish church
Chalvington has a single nave with a bell-turret over the W end, opposing N and S doorways (N doorway now blocked), and a two-bay chancel. There is no chancel arch. Restored 1873.
34. Charleston Manor, West Dean, Sussex, England

Manor House
Charlton Manor is situated 0.6 miles NW of West Dean church (qv). The earliest datable feature in the W range is a late Norman window, set in the N wall at first-floor level, presumably to light a first-floor hall. An east range was added in the early 17thc. It was doubled by the erection of a new range along its north side in the late 18thc.
35. 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.
36. No. 4 Canon Lane, Chichester, Sussex, England

Archdeaconry
A very restored 12thc. doorway forms the Canon Lane entrance to a residentiary of 1871.
37. St Mary, Chidham, Sussex, England

Parish church
Chidham church, largely 13thc. in date, has a single nave, with a W bell-cote. A two-bay arcade (14thc.) opens into a short aisle or chapel at the E end of the N side. There is a square chancel.
38. St Mary, Chithurst, Sussex, England

Parish church
A late 11thc. church. The single-cell nave is entered through a plain W doorway, and includes herringbone masonry. The square-ended chancel has a plain arch. The church contains a plain font.
39. St Mary, Clymping (or Climping), Sussex, England

Convent/Parish church
The earliest part of the church is the S transept tower (c.1180). The rest of the building (nave, S aisle, N transept and chancel) was rebuiltc.1220-30. The N and S transept arches have reeded consoles with snake-like neckings (cf: South Berstead).
40. St Agatha, Coates, Sussex, England

Parish church
This heavily repointed (or refaced?) church comprises a single nave with a bell turret (rebuilt 1961), and a small, square chancel. The chancel arch is plain and round-headed; one Norman window survives in the S wall of the nave.
41. Cocking, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises an aisled nave, apparently late 11thc. in origin, a 14thc. W tower, and a square-ended chancel with a plain arch and a vestry on its N side. It contains a plain font.
42. St Giles, Coldwaltham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The W tower, with a timber-framed upper stage, is medieval but the rest of the church was heavily restored, or even rebuilt, in 1870.
43. St Mary, Compton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The N arcade and chancel arch of the church are late 12thc. The N aisle has been demolished and the chancel was rebuilt in the 19thc. Romanesque sculpture is found on a capital in the blocked N nave arcade.
44. St John the Baptist, Crawley, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a W tower, nave, seven-bay N aisle, N porch and chancel. There is a blocked doorway in the S wall of the nave. On the N side of the chancel is the vestry, and on the S are two doorways: one to the (lost) rood screen, the other a priests' doorway with a small porch. All of the fabric is post 12thc. The S doorway seems to be the earliest feature, and may date from the early 13thc.
45. St Leonard, Denton, Sussex, England

Parish church
A heavily restored church comprising nave and chancel. It contains a Romanesque font.
46. St Andrew, Didling, Sussex, England

Parish church
A very small stone church in a rural location, of 13thc. appearance. The single-cell nave contains 15thc. pews. There is a square-ended chancel, and considerable amounts of brick walling. The church contains a plain font.
47. St Margaret, Eartham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a W porch, a W bell-turret, a 13thc. S arcade and a simple two-bay chancel. The plain W doorway has a tympanum in a raised surround.
48. St Mary, Easebourne, Sussex, England

Parish church, formerly part Priory Church
The church, heavily restored by Sir Arthur Blomfield in 1876, incorporates some 12thc. fabric, namely the NW tower, one and a half bays of the N nave arcade and a blocked S doorway. Blomfield's extensive restorations included the removal of the dividing wall between the parish and priory churches (see para. VII below) and the reconstruction of the E end of the arcade. Romanesque sculpture is found at the W end of the nave arcade.
49. 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'.
50. St Peter, East Blatchington, Sussex, England

Parish church
51. All Saints, East Dean, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church, restored in 1870, has a single-cell nave but there are two blocked arches of an arcade on its N side. There are two doorways, a round-headed N doorway, now blocked, and a pointed S doorway sheltered by a porch. The transept carries a central tower, and there is a square-ended chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S nave doorway and on a capital supporting the modern font.
52. St Simon and St Jude, East Dean, Sussex, England

Parish church
The font, which incorporates a 12thc. fragment, stands in an extension of the nave dating from 1961; there is no other Romanesque sculpture in the building.
53. St Mary, East Guldeford, Sussex, England

Parish church
Consecrated in 1505, this is a brick church with a hipped M-shaped roof, which covers the nave and chancel together. The font comes from an earlier church.
54. East Hoathly, Sussex, England

Parish Church
The church is of local brown sandstone. The W tower is medieval, but the rest is Victorian (1856) with some medieval fixtures and fittings. These include a blocked Norman window with an arched lintel at the E end of the N aisle, and a Norman pillar piscina.
55. St Mary, East Lavant, Sussex, England

Parish Church
12thc. nave with 13thc. aisle, chancel and brick tower of 1671 on the S of the nave. The church was restored in 1863 by G. M. Hills. The only Romanesque sculpture at East Lavant is the W doorway.
56. St Paul, Elsted, Sussex, England

Parish church
This small church, restored in 1951, has a single nave with exposed herringbone masonry in its E, W and N walls. Two blocked arches in the N wall indicate that an aisle has been added and subsequently demolished. The S porch bears a datestone, 1622. The Early English chancel, entered through an 11thc. arch with large imposts, appears to be very restored. There is a modern vestry on its S side. The font was given by St Olave's, Chichester in 1956.
57. St Peter, East Marden, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church appears to date from the 13thc. The aisleless nave has opposing doorways and is contiguous with the chancel, without an arch. There is a S porch and N vestry.
58. St Mary The Virgin, East Preston, Sussex, England

Parish church
East Preston church has a Perp. W tower, a 12thc. nave with a Victorian S aisle (1869; Sir George Gilbert Scott), and a 13thc. chancel, which is the same height and width as the nave. There is a Norman window in the N wall of the nave.
59. St James, Ewhurst, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a W tower (Transitional, with an Early English doorway), a nave with S aisle (early 13thc.) and N aisle (late 13thc.), and a square-ended chancel. The vestry is modern. Restored 1874.
60. Chapel of the Assumption, East Wittering, Sussex, England

Private chapel (?)(deconsecrated)
The only Romanesque sculpture in the church is the S doorway.
61. St Mary, Felpham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a nave with late 12thc. N aisle and mid-13thc. S aisle, a 14thc. chancel and a 15thc. W tower. There is an arcaded Sussex marble font.
62. St Margaret, Fernhurst, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church was restored in the 19thc., leaving few traces of the medieval structure. Two windows and a buttress on the N side are of 12thc. date. The church contains a Romanesque font.
63. St John the Baptist, Findon, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a W tower, a nave jointly roofed with an early 13thc. N aisle (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a twin nave), a transept and a square chancel.
64. St Mary, Fletching, Sussex, England

Parish church
12thc. W tower and nave; 13thc. aisles and transepts; Victorian chancel (John Oldrid Scott).
65. St Andrew, Ford, Sussex, England

Parish church
This is a small church, little used and still without electricity, comprising a nave with a W bell-turret, opposing N and S doorways and a brick S porch (1637). There are fragments of Anglo-Saxon interlace over the N doorway, which now leads into a vestry. There are two small and two larger, slightly pointed, Norman windows in the N wall of the nave.
66. St Mary, Goring-By-Sea, Sussex, England

Parish church
Goring church, rebuilt in 1837, has a W tower, nave with N and S aisles and a chancel. The 12th-century nave arcades were retained in 1837.
67. St Giles, Graffham, Sussex, England

Parish church
This church was virtually rebuilt by GE Street or his firm in 1874-87. It now comprises a three-bay aisled nave and a square-ended chancel with an organ chamber on its N side, and a chapel on it S. All that was retained of the medieval (largely late 12thc.) church were the nave and chapel arcades.
68. St Laurence, Guestling, Sussex, England

Parish church
The W tower and a corner of the nave are all that survive of an aisleless church ofc.1100. The neo-Norman doorway in the W wall of the tower replaced a simple doorway, itself an insertion. Elements of the church dating from the 12thc. are a fragment of the N aisle,c.1100-20, and the Chapel of St John,c.1190, which has an entrance arch with chevron but is otherwise stylistically `Transitional'.
69. St Helen, Hangleton, Sussex, England

Parish church
Hangleton church has a 13thc. W tower, an early Norman nave with opposing N and S doorways, a N porch and vestry, and a square-ended 14thc. chancel, separated from the nave by a screen. There is a small Norman window in the S wall of the nave, and another in the N. Two reset corbels and one loose corbel may be 12thc. in date.
70. St Mary and St Gabriel, Harting, Sussex, England

Parish church
A large church, mainly 14thc. in date, with an aisled nave, transept, crossing tower and square chancel. Nairn and Pevsner suggest that the nave may have 11thc. origins, although there is no visible evidence of this. The church contains a Romanesque font and a fragment of a cross shaft, the latter of uncertain date.
71. Hastings Castle, Hastings, Sussex, England

Castle
Hastings Castle is positioned high above the seafront and has been partially destroyed by cliff erosion along its S side. The chief remains are the N and E curtain walls with an E gatehouse and bastion. The collegiate church of St Mary within the castle is in ruins. There is no Romanesque sculpture in situ.
72. St Peter and St Paul, Hellingly, Sussex, England

Parish Church
The earliest elements of the church, dating fromc.1200, are the two N chancel windows (bobbin shaft-rings and crocket capitals), and the E responds of the N aisle. Pieces of Romanesque sculpture, however, are incorporated within the fabric of the chancel and N transept.
73. St Peter, Henfield, Sussex, England

Parish church
This highly restored church comprises a W tower (Perp.), nave with aisles to N and S (13thc.), and square-ended chancel with chapel on N side (15thc.). The restoration was carried out in 1870.
74. 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.
75. St Oswald, Hooe, Sussex, England

Parish church
Hooe church has a W tower, an aisleless nave, a S porch, a broad, square-ended chancel and a N chapel (now vestry). The church was entirely rebuilt in the 15thc., with the exception of the N chapel, which belongs to the 13thc.
76. St Mary, Horsham, Sussex, England

Parish church
A large church of local brown sandstone, restored by Teulon in 1865, comprising a W tower (12thc.) with a broach spire, an aisled nave (12thc. and 13thc.) with a clerestorey, and a square chancel (late 13thc.). Chantry chapels have been added to N (C14th) and S (15thc.) and a sacristy to the NE (Perp).
77. St Ledger (Leodegar), Hunston, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church was rebuilt by A W Blomfield in 1885. None of the 12thc. sculpture that decorated its predecessor seems to survive.
78. Holy Trinity, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church of St Lawrence was completely rebuilt to a design by Sir Charles Barry in 1843-45 and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The previous church on the site had been virtually rebuiltc.1420.
79. St Nicholas, Icklesham, Sussex, England

Parish Church
The 12thc. sculptural decoration of Icklesham belongs to three different building campaigns. The N tower and side aisles were added to an existing nave in the early 12thc., while the present nave arcades and the ground-chamber rib-vault of the tower were built at different times during the second half of the century. The N and S chapels are ofc.1200, and the Decorated-style chancel of the early-14thc. The church was restored by S. S. Teulon in 1848-49.
80. St Margaret, Ifield, Sussex, England

Parish church
A rendered parish church, now on the outskirts of Crawley, comprising a W tower (1883) with a broach spire, an aisled nave(14thc.) with a king-post roof and clerestorey and a square chancel (13thc.). The 12thc. font is the earliest feature of the site.
81. St Nicholas, Iford, Sussex, England

Parish church
This church has a single nave, a central tower (probably built over the original chancel) and a chancel with a vestry on its N side. The chancel, tower and N aisle were added to a simple two-cell building in the late 12thc. century. The N aisle has been demolished and the N wall rebuilt. The church was restored in 1868 and again in 1874.
82. St Andrew, Jevington, Sussex, England

Parish church
Jevington church has an Anglo-Saxon W tower, with details which appear to have been restored in a 13thc. style except for the W doorway, which is in a 12thc. style. It is, nevertheless, undoubtedly Victorian, probably dating from the 1873 restoration. The nave has a 13thc. N aisle. A relief of Christ (Harrowing of Hell) was discovered under the floor of the W tower by Sir William Burrell in 1785 and is now set at the W end of the nave, on the N side. It is often thought to be Anglo-Saxon. There is a vestry (locked) on the N side of the two-bay chancel.
83. St John the Baptist, Kirdford, Sussex, England

Parish Church
Only the nave of the 12thc. church remains.
84. St James the Less, Lancing, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church, comprising a chancel, aisled central tower, aisled nave and S porch, was rebuilt at the end of the 13thc., but incorporates some reset 12thc. work. This includes the moulded S doorway ofc.1200, earlier fragments of billet (chancel, int.; nave ext.) and a voussoir (nave, ext.). The unusual font is probably late 12thc. in date. The vestry was added in 1934.
85. St Anne, Lewes, Sussex, England

Parish church
The oldest parts of the church are the W tower, nave, N porch and S chapel, all of which date to the early or mid-12th century. The Early English S aisle, with its four-bay arcade, was added in the late 12th century, and the chancel was extended in the 13th. The chancel arch is modern. The church was restored in 1889.
86. St James, Littlehampton, Sussex, England

Parish church
St James was built in the early 20thc., and is a large brick church.
87. St Mary The Virgin, Littlehampton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The medieval church of St Mary's was rebuilt in 1826 by G Draper, then rebuilt again in 1934 by Randoll Blacking. It is a large brick church with a spacious galleried nave, transepts and chancel.
88. St Peter, Lodsworth, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church was rebuilt in the mid-19thc., at which time aisles were added to the nave, and the neo-Norman S transept erected. There is a square chancel and a medieval W tower. The church contains a plain font.
89. The Good Shepherd, Lullington, Sussex, England

Originally chapelry, now parish church.
As only the 13thc. chancel (approx. 16 ft square) of this church survives, it has been described as the smallest church in the country. By tradition, the nave is said to have been destroyed during the Civil War. It survives merely as stumps of masonry in the grass. The 19thc. W wall carries a white weather-boarded bell turret.
90. St Laurence, Lurgashall, Sussex, England

Parish church
The tall, single-cell nave, entered on the S, has a blocked N doorway and incorporates some herringbone masonry. There is a tower on the S side, a modern N transept, and a long square-ended 13thc. chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found on a fragment reset inside the porch and on a fragment of a font.
91. 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.
92. St Bartholomew, Maresfield, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a Perp W tower, a nave of Norman origin and a transept and chancel designed by J Olrid Scott (1875-79).
93. St Giles, Merston, Sussex, England

Parish church
The nave has a W bell-cote, a N aisle and a S porch. It is continuous with the 13thc. chancel.
94. St Mary Magdalene and St Denys, Midhurst, Sussex, England

Parish church
Numerous additions and restorations have produced a complex, asymmetrical building dating largely from the 16thc. and 19thc. The earliest part is the lower stage of the S tower, dating from the late 12thc. or early 13thc.
95. St Luke, Milland, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church is entirely Victorian (1878) - described as a 'nasty, fussy job' by Nairn and Pevsner, p. 274 - with a W tower, an aisled nave and a chancel, all in the Early English style. The redundant old church (ded. St Michael) still stands to the E. Although evidently early, it contains no obviously Norman features.
96. All Saints, Mountfield, Sussex,, England

Parish church
This small church, built from local sandstone, has a W tower, a single nave with a couple of Norman windows surviving in its N wall, and an Early English chancel. It also has a modern vestry (N of chancel), and a S porch (14thc.).
97. St Michael, Newhaven, Sussex, England

Parish church
Newhaven church is poised on a hilltop, high above the Ouse estuary. It comprises a simple semi-circular apse, a central tower without transepts and a double aisled nave of 1791. There is a vestry (1825) at the E end of the N aisle, and a porch at the E end of the S. The church was largely rebuilt by Habershon in 1854.
98. 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.
99. St Mary the Virgin, North Marden, Sussex, England

Originally chapel of ease, now parish church
This small church, approached through a farmyard in a tiny hamlet, has a single nave with opposing doorways (now corresponding to a porch on the S and a vestry on the N, both 19thc. additions), and a apsidal E end. The nave and apse are of the same height and are roofed together, with no structural demarcation of space. The Romanesque style apse windows are modern. There is no electricity.
100. St Stephen, North Mundham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a W tower, a nave with 13thc. aisles, and a chancel with side chapels.
101. North Stoke, Sussex, England

Parish church (redundant)
North Stoke is a cruciform church with a short, wide nave, S porch, N and S transepts and a chancel. Two blocked round-headed windows in the nave indicate that it dates from the late 11thc. or early 12thc.. The transepts have been dated betweenc.1270 andc.1330, and the chancel c.1240, on the basis of the window design. Two blind arches above a seat in the W wall of the S transept descend onto a corbel in the form of a lion's or ram's head, which may be reused. There is a shingled bell-turret on the N transept. There are three stone coffin lids carved with crosses in the churchyard.
102. St Nicolas, Old Shoreham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The aisleless nave of Old Shoreham is Anglo-Saxon. The tower which once stood at its W end was probably adapted as a nave extension in the mid-12thc., when the central tower and transepts were erected. The large chancel dates from the 14thc., and includes a tie beam carved with dogtooth. In 1840-43 two vestries were built in the angle of the N transept and chancel, and the church was restored.
103. St Andrew, Oving, Sussex, England

Parish church
Oving church dates from the 13thc. and comprises a W tower, a wide, aisleless nave, N and S transepts, and a chancel. Somewhere in the church there is a reeded corbel of the type found at Clymping, South Bersted and Slindon (VCH vol II, 345).
104. St Thomas A Becket, Pagham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a 13thc. nave with N and S aisles, N and S transepts and a chancel. The NW tower stands over the W bay of the N aisle. The W front, apparently inspired by church facades in Western France, seems to date from the 1837 restoration by John Elliott.
105. St Michael and All Angels, Partridge Green, Sussex, England

Parish church
Built in 1890, this church is faced in flint outside and red brick inside. It has a W tower, a single nave and a square chancel. The font appears to be its oldest feature.
106. St Peter and St Paul, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

Parish church
Peasmarsh church is essentially Norman, but was greatly enlarged in the 13thc. It has a W tower, an aisled nave with three-bay arcades, and a large square-ended Early English chancel. The main Norman feature is the chancel arch.
107. Pevensey Castle, Pevensey, Sussex, England

Castle
This ruined medieval castle stands on the site of a Roman fort, and incorporates some Roman fabric. Much of the standing fabric dates from the 12thc. and 13thc., including the keep, the chapel and the gatehouses. The chapel is in the middle of the inner bailey. There is no Romanesque sculpture in situ.
108. St Nicholas, Poling, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a W tower (c.1400), a late 11thc. nave with a S aisle addedc.1200, and a chancel, rebuilt in the late 14thc., which is the same height as the nave and has no entrance arch.
109. Portslade Manor, Portslade, Sussex, England

Manor house
The ruined Portslade Manor stands to the N of the church. It incorporates the remains of a 12thc. house, which had a first-floor hall.
110. St Nicolas, Portslade, Sussex, England

Parish church
This late 12thc. and 13thc. church comprises a W tower, nave with S and N arcades (the N aisle added 1874 in style of S aisle) and a square chancel. A large Victorian addition on the N side of the tower is the Brackenbury Chapel of 1874.
111. St Mary, Pulborough, Sussex, England

Parish church
Pulborough church comprises a W tower (Perp), a nave with N and S aisles (Perp) and a clerestorey, and a 13thc. chancel with a N chapel, separated by a two-bay arcade. The main doorways are located in the second bay of the nave, to N and S. The church was restored in 1859.
112. St Peter, Racton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a W bell-turret and S porch, and a 13thc. chancel. It was restored in 1875.
113. St Mary the Virgin, Ringmer, Sussex, England

Parish church
114. The Rectory, Rodmell, Sussex, England

Rectory
An arch in the gardens of the Rectory incorporates several carved Norman stones which are thought to have come from the chancel arch of the church (see entry on St Peter's). That, in turn, is thought to have been created from stones brought from Lewes Priory after 1537.
115. St Peter, Rodmell, Sussex, England

Parish church
Rodmell church has a late 12thc. W tower with a baptistery on the S side, a 12thc. nave with a late 12thc. S aisle, and a chancel with a S chapel (formerly the private chapel of Place House) and a modern vestry to the N. The round-headed pseudo-Norman chancel arch is thought to reproduce the original arch, which had a pointed head. The original stones are in the Rectory garden, and are thought to have been brought from Lewes Priory after 1537. The font dates from the late 12thc.
116. St Margaret, Rottingdean, Sussex, England

Parish church
Th nave of Rottingdean church dates from the early 12thc., with the exception of the W wall, which was rebuilt in the 14thc. The central tower and chancel date from the 13thc., and the S aisle was added in 1856. The foundations of a S transept were found in 1909. The loose fragments in the church probably came from the 12thc. church on the site.
117. Holy Trinity, Rudgwick, Sussex, England

Parish Church
A squat church composed of a W tower (13thc.), a nave with a N aisle (14thc.) and a chancel (14thc.). There is no obvious 12thc. work, although the S wall of the nave may be Norman.
118. St Peter and St Paul, Rustington, Sussex, England

Parish church
This highly restored church has a 12thc. W tower, dated 1661 on the parapet, an aisled nave, N transept, N porch and square-ended chancel.
119. St Mary, Rye, Sussex, England

Parish church
This is a cruciform Norman church, which was much enlarged in the 13thc. The nave is flanked by aisles with five-bay arcades dating from the early 13thc.; on the S side is a porch and the Lamb Vault (with sacristy over), dating from the 14thc. and 15thc. respectively. The crossing tower and transepts are of 12thc. origin, but were remodelled in the late 12thc., then again in the 15thc., when the crossing tower was rebuilt. The chancel is flanked by three-bay arcades opening into chapels: this is mainly 13thc. work, but much of the arcades was rebuilt in the 15thc.
120. St Mary the Virgin, Salehurst, Sussex, England

Parish church
This church does not incorporate any obvious 12thc. fabric. It has a W tower, a long nave with a 13thc. (Early English) clerestorey, later aisles with 6-bay arcades, and a square chancel with a N chapel.
121. St Mary Magdalene, South Bersted, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a W tower (13thc.), an aisled nave with 13thc. arcades, and square chancel (1879) with a N chapel which is a continuation of the N aisle.
122. St Leonard, Seaford, Sussex, England

Parish church
Seaford church has a W tower, an aisled nave with two-bay arcades and a S porch, a non-projecting transept, a large chancel with a polygonal end and a N chapel. The Perp tower seems to have been erected within the W bay of a Norman nave, but the W doorway is neo-Norman rather than Norman. Herringbone masonry suggests that the N aisle is of Norman origin, but the present two-bay nave arcades, clerestoreys and corbel tables appear to date from the early 13thc. One capital in the S arcade is historiated, with the Baptism of Christ, the Harrowing of Hell, Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Massacre of the Innocents, and the Crucifixion. The mid-Victorian 'transepts' and chancel were designed by John Billing and erected in 1861-62.
123. Southease, Sussex, England

Parish church
Southease church has a circular W tower with a shingle spire, a nave with a blocked 12thc. window on the N side, a S porch, and a chancel with a blocked S arch. The nave is separated from the chancel by a half-timbered wall with a wide arch.
124. St James, Selham, Sussex, England

Parish church
A small church comprising an 11thc. nave with a plain N doorway, a 19thc. N porch and 14thc. S chapel which was rebuilt in the 19thc. A W tower was demolished before 1791; the W wall, with its bell-cote, was rebuilt in the 19thc. The square chancel dates from the 11thc. Some herringbone masonry is visible in nave and chancel.
125. 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.
126. St Giles, Shermanbury, Sussex, England

Parish church
A very small, rendered parish church composed of an unaisled nave with a timber bell-cote over the W end and a small square-ended chancel. There are traces of opposing N and S doorways in the nave walls although the church is now entered through a W doorway.
127. 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.
128. St Mary, Sidlesham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a W tower, a large 13thc. nave with no clerestorey, a transept and no chancel.
129. St Mary, Slaugham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a 13thc. W tower and a nave with a late 13thc. S arcade and aisle, much rebuilt and enlarged in 1827. The chancel was extended in the 14thc. On its S side is the Covert Chapel of 1613, and on the N are two modern vestries.
130. 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.
131. St Mary, Sompting, Sussex, England

Parish Church
The church comprises a continuous chancel and nave, a N transept with an E aisle, a S transept (originally a separate chapel) with an E chapel and S porch, and a W tower capped by a 14thc. `Rhenish Helm'. The tower was erected in three 11thc. campaigns: the lower stage is pre-Conquest, the first and second storeysc.1066-80 and the third storeyc.1080-1100. A N doorway demonstrates that vestiges of the nave belong to the first half of the 12thc., but the transepts and chancel were erected after 1154, when the church was acquired by the Templars. The church underwent extensive restorations in 1853, when most of the internal masonry was scraped under R.C. Carpenter. The interior contains a number of fragments ascribed to the 11thc., and a plain 12thc. font.
132. St James, Stedham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church was rebuilt by J Butler in 1850, incorporating a tower of 1670-73 on its S side. Photographs are included here of three fragments of grave slabs, of uncertain date, which are set in the facing of the S wall. The church contains a plain font.