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St Mary, Horsham, Sussex

Location
(51°3′36″N, 0°19′54″W)
Horsham
TQ 170 303
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now West Sussex
medieval St Mary
now St Mary
  • Kathryn A Morrison
  • Kathryn A Morrison
30 March 97

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Feature Sets
Description

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 (14thc.) and S (15thc.) and a sacristy to the NE (Perp).

History

Horsham is not mentioned in Domesday Book. The W tower and the NW corner of the N aisle appear to be remnants of an earlier church which was substantially rebuilt in the 13thc., probably in 1231, when the advowson passed to Rusper Abbey. Rusper, a nunnery founded by William de Braose c.1200, also possessed the churches of Warnham, Ifield and Selham.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Exterior Decoration

Corbel tables, corbels
Bibliography

I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 242-44.