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This is a simple church with a W tower, a single-cell 12thc. nave and a 13thc. chancel. A carved window head is found on the S side of the nave. The church also contains a plain font.
In 1086, Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, held Tangmere, in the Rape of Chichester, in lordship. A church is mentioned at that time.
Bond (1908), 126 notes that fonts like that at Tangmere ... could be either pre- or post-Conquest; ‘certainly we have no right to insist that they are Norman’. Nairn and Pevsner suggest that the window head may represent a beheading, and that it may be a reused Saxon fragment. They also mention a 13thc. chancel arch with scalloped imposts, which are actually fluted 13thc. brackets.