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St Mary, Barnham, Sussex

Location
(50°49′23″N, 0°38′38″W)
Barnham
SU 956 035
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now West Sussex
  • Kathryn A Morrison
  • Kathryn A Morrison
23.5.98 and 25 March 2026

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Feature Sets
Description

The church has an unaisled nave, with a square weather-boarded bell-cote over the W end and a S porch. There are two Norman windows on the S side, and a blocked arcade with pointed arches in the N wall. A timber truss serves to divide the nave from the 13thc. chancel. There is an organ chamber and vestry on the N side.

History

A church is mentioned in Domesday Survey (1086). In 1105 Robert de Haye gave Barnham to the Abbey of Lessay in Normandy and it later passed to Boxgrove Priory. The church was restored in 1865.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The font dates from the late 12thc.

Bibliography

M. F. Drummond-Roberts, Some Sussex Fonts Photographed and Described, Brighton 1935, 8.

J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex, Chichester 1976, 11.82.

I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 99-100.

A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex, Chichester 1912, 34.

Victoria County History: Sussex, 5, Pt 1 (Arundel Rape - SW Part), (1997) 114-17.

A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts with Details of those in Sussex, London 1908, 66-67.