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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
  • Kathryn Morrison

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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 (C14th) 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 Braosec.1200, also possessed the churches of Warnham, Ifield and Selham.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Exterior Decoration

Corbel tables, corbels
Comments/Opinions

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