St Mary the Virgin, East Preston, Sussex

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Location
(50°48′44″N, 0°29′28″W)
Site Location
East Preston
National Grid Reference
TQ 064 025
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex now West Sussex
Diocese
medieval Chichester now Chichester
Dedication
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Kathryn A Morrison
Photographers
  • Kathryn A Morrison
Visit Date
7.9.98 and 25 March 2026

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Feature Sets
Description

East Preston church has a Perp. W tower, a 12thc. nave with a Victorian S aisle (1869; Sir George Gilbert Scott), and a 13thc. chancel, which is the same height and width as the nave. There is a Norman window in the N wall of the nave.

History

East Preston is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but no church.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

Bibliography

J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex, Chichester 1976, 11.69.

I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 215-16.

A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex, Chichester 1912, 121-22.

Elizabeth Williamson, Tim Hudson, Jeremy Musson and Ian Nairn, The Buildings of England: Sussex: West, New Haven and London, 2019, 368-369.