Please use this link to cite this page - https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13167.
Find out how to cite the CRSBI website here.
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.
There was a church in Chithurst in 1086. VCH mentions tombstones - some carved with double crosses - outside the church, some of which may be 12thc.
M. F. Drummond-Roberts, Some Sussex Fonts Photographed and Described, Brighton 1935, 23
P. M. Johnston, 'Chithurst Church', Sussex Archaeological Collections 55, 1912, 97-107
J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex, Chichester 1976, 11, 9
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 186-87 (no mention of font).
Victoria County History: Sussex 4 (Chichester Rape) 1953, 5-6, with plan.
