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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 Michael, Amberley, Sussex, England

Parish church
Amberley church comprises a W tower, a nave with a 13thc. S aisle, and a square-ended chancel.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. St Leonard, Denton, Sussex, England

Parish church
A heavily restored church comprising nave and chancel. It contains a Romanesque font.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. St Peter, East Blatchington, Sussex, England

Parish church
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. St Andrew, Steyning, Sussex, England

Formerly Collegiate church, now parish church
This church comprises a W tower, a 12thc. aisled nave and a 19thc. chancel. The demolition of the medieval choir, transepts and central tower, dilapidated since the Dissolution, was begun in 1577 and completed in the 17thc. A new chancel and W tower, which occupies the site of the W bay(s) of the nave, were then constructed. What was lost at the E end must have been largely of early 12thc. date, judging from the surviving W piers and arch of the crossing and the E arches of the S and N aisles which formerly opened into the transepts. The nave was erected later in the 12thc. The present chancel is of the 19thc.
41. St Mary, Stoughton, Sussex, England

Parish church
Stoughton has a very high, aisleless nave (11thc., rebuilt in 13thc?), N and S transepts, with a bell tower over the S arm, a wide, high chancel arch and a 13thc. chancel. There is a Norman window in the W wall of each transept.
42. 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.?).
43. St Andrew, Tangmere, Sussex, England

Parish church
This is a simple church with a W tower, a single-cell 12thc. nave and a 13thc. chancel. A carved window head is found on the S side of the nave. The church also contains a plain font.
44. St Peter, Terwick, Sussex, England

Parish church
The 12thc. church is composed of a single-cell nave and square chancel. It has a plain W doorway and a plain font.
45. 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.
46. St Mary Magdalene, Tortington, Sussex, England

Parish church
A small Norman church. Weather-boarded bell-cote over W end of nave; S aisle (early 13thc.; rebuiltc.1860) with Romanesque S doorway within gabled projection; chancel and N vestry (Victorian).
47. St George, Trotton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The nave has a W tower and S porch and is decorated with 14thc. wall paintings. The chancel is continuous with the nave, without a separating arch. The church contains a plain font.
48. 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.
49. St Mary the Virgin, Upwaltham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church has a single-cell nave and a semi-circular apse preceded by a straight bay. Romanesque sculpture is found on a capital reused as a piscina. The church also contains a plain font.
50. St Mary the Virgin, Walberton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The nave of Walberton has a bell-turret at the W end and aisles with plain round-headed arcades to N and S. The chancel has plain 13th-century lancet windows, but the chancel arch is probably slightly later.
51. St Margaret, Warnham, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church is substantially late medieval and Victorian, retaining no evidence of the Norman structure to which the font may have belonged.
52. St George, West Grinstead, Sussex, England

Parish church
This church is largely rendered. It comprises a nave (12thc.) with a S aisle (13thc.), a tower (13thc.) situated at the E end of the S aisle and a chancel (late 13thc.) with a S chapel (Halsham Chapel, mid-14thc.).
53. St Margaret, West Hoathly, Sussex, England

Parish church
St Margaret's includes a W tower (Perp.,c.1400), nave (12thc. origin), S aisle ofc.1175-1220, square-ended chancel (mid or late 13thc.) and S chapel (c.1270). The church was restored in 1870.
54. St Martin, Westmeston, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a 12thc. nave with a 14thc. S aisle, and a chancel with a S chapel. The font is 12thc.
55. St Mary and St Peter, Wilmington, Sussex, England

Parish church
Wilmington church has a nave with a N porch, a bell-turret over the W end and a two-bay S aisle with a 13thc. arcade. Towards the E end of the nave, on the N side, is a chapel (now vestry). The chancel is entered through a Victorian arch (1883; Paley and Austin), but retains two original Norman windows and sections of a string course carved with sawtooth. A 12thc. relief depicting the Virgin and Child is set in the S wall. The font dates from the early 13thc., but its form continues a 12thc. tradition.
56. 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.
57. St Michael, Wiston, Sussex, England

Parish church
Wiston church is located outside the town of Steyning, beside Wiston Park. It has a W tower, a nave with a S aisle, a chancel and a large S chapel dedicated to St Mary. Most of this dated from the 14thc., but the church was heavily restored in 1862 by G M Hills.
58. St Peter, Woodmancote, Sussex, England

Parish church
Heavily restored in the 1860s by Woodyer, the church has a single nave with opposing N and S doorways, and a large chancel. There is a bell turret with a broach spire over the W gable.
59. All Hallows, Woolbeding, Sussex, England

Parish church
All Hallows has a tall, aisleless 11thc. nave with pilaster strips and a blocked S doorway with long-and-short quoining. The W tower and chancel date from 1728 and 1870 respectively. The church contains a plain font and a loose Romanesque capital.
60. St Nicholas, Worth, Sussex, England

Parish church
The Anglo-Saxon church is remarkably complete, having an apsidal chancel and a rectangular nave with porticus or transepts at its E end. The tower on the N side of the chancel was built in 1871, and the N porch was added in 1886. The font dates from the early 13thc.
61. St Nicholas, West Thorney, Sussex, England

Parish church
West Thorney church has a W tower, and a nave and chancel which are roofed together. There is a blocked N arcade, and apparently a S aisle was also lost. The predominant style is Early English.
62. St Peter and St Paul, West Wittering, Sussex, England

Parish church
The church comprises a nave (with some herringbone masonry and opposing N and S doorways), S aisle ofc.1200, N tower and a 13thc. chancel with a chapel continuing the S aisle.
63. St Mary the Virgin, Yapton, Sussex, England

Parish church
The nave of Yapton church has aisles with early 13thc. arcades, with stiff-leaf and crocket capitals. There is a tower at the W end of the S aisle. The chancel is large, and entered through a 13thc. arch. The inner arch descends onto fluted consoles of a type that occur within the context of multi-scallop capitals in other W Sussex churches ofc.1200.