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East Lavant church comprises a 12thc. nave, a 13thc. aisle, a chancel and a brick tower of 1671 on the S of the nave. The church was restored in 1863 by Gordon M. Hills. The only Romanesque sculpture is the W doorway.
The manor and church of East Lavant belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury from pre-Conquest times until the Reformation.
VCH records the medieval dedication as St Mary Magdalene, but gives no dates (VCH, iv, 102-03).
A similar doorway at Amberley Castle may have been executed by the same workshop. Both ensembles can be dated c.1150.
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 260.
A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex, Chichester 1912, 96-99.
Victoria County History: Sussex 4 (Chichester Rape) 1953, 102-03.
