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St Andrew, Tangmere, Sussex

Location
(50°50′53″N, 0°43′17″W)
Tangmere
SU 901 062
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now West Sussex
  • Kathryn A Morrison
  • Kathryn A Morrison
21 July 1991

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Description

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.

History

In 1086, Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, held Tangmere, in the Rape of Chichester, in lordship. A church is mentioned at that time.

Features

Exterior Features

Windows

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

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.

Bibliography
Victoria County History: Sussex. 4 (Chichester Rape) 1953.
J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex. Chichester 1976, 2, 6.
A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex. Chichester 1912.
G. Harper, Tangmere: A Village with Two Stories. 1983.
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth 1965, 347.
A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts with Details of those in Sussex. London 1908.