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Chidham church, largely 13thc. in date, has a single nave with a W bell-cote. A two-bay arcade (14thc.) opens into a short aisle or chapel at the E end of the N side. There is a square chancel.
Chidham was not mentioned in the Domesday Book. It was one of five prebends belonging to the College of Bosham.
The church was restored in 1865.
The font probably dates from the late 12thc. or early 13thc. It was thought Saxon by Drummond-Roberts.
M. F. Drummond-Roberts, Some Sussex Fonts Photographed and Described, Brighton 1935, 22.
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth 1965, 186.
A. H. Peat and L. C. Halsted, Churches and Other Antiquities of West Sussex, Chichester 1912, 62-63.
Victoria County History: Sussex 4 (Chichester Rape) 1953, 189-190, with plan.
A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts with Details of those in Sussex, London 1908, 106-07.
