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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 was mentioned at that time.
Bond (1908, 126) noted 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.
G. Harper, Tangmere: A Village with Two Stories. 1983.
J. Morris and J. Mothersill (ed.), Domesday Book: Sussex, Chichester 1976, 2, 6.
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 347.
A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex, Chichester 1912.
Victoria County History: Sussex 4 (Chichester Rape) 1953.
A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts with Details of those in Sussex, London 1908.
