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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.
Binsted is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but not the church. However, the church is known to have existed by the mid-12thc., and by 1291 it had been appropriated to Tortington Priory. It was restored by Sir T. G. Jackson in 1867-68.
The font, with its cylindrical shaft and base, could date from the late 12thc. The multi-scalloped piscina resembles corbels or respond capitals occurring in arcades of c.1200 in the area around Boxgrove.
Anon, nd. St Mary's Church, Binsted (church guide)
J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex. Chichester 1976, 11.80
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth 1965, 105
Victoria County History: Sussex. 5, Pt 1 (Arundel Rape - SW Part), (1997), 123-125.
A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English fonts with details of those in Sussex. London 1908, 120-121
