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St Peter, West Wittering, Sussex

Location
(50°46′47″N, 0°53′57″W)
West Wittering
SZ 777 984
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now West Sussex
  • Kathryn A Morrison
  • Kathryn A Morrison
9 Sept 1998

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Feature Sets
Description

The church comprises a nave (with some herringbone masonry), a N porch, a S aisle of c.1200, a N tower and a 13thc. chancel with a chapel continuing the S aisle.

History

West Wittering is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but no church. The church was restored by William White in 1875. In the course of the work a Purbeck marble coffin lid carved with a cross and a staff, probably of 13thc. date, was discovered (Horsham Express 20 June 1875, 2). Another find was a stone carved with a cross within a circle, identified as an Anglo-Saxon gable cross (Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture).

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Bibliography

Horsham Express 20 June 1875, 2.

J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex, Chichester 1976, 11, 47.

I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965. 376-77.

A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex, Chichester 1912, 175-77.

Victoria County History: Sussex IV (Chichester Rape) 1953, 219-21, with plan.

A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English fonts with details of those in Sussex, London 1908, 38-39.