List of places of worship in Arun
Encyclopedia
The district of Arun
, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex
, has nearly 90 current and former places of worship. As of , 68 active churches and chapels serve the dense urban development on the English Channel
coast and the mostly rural hinterland of ancient towns and villages; a further 20 former places of worship still stand but are no longer in religious use. Many churches, serving a wide variety of Christian denomination
s, are located in the main towns of Littlehampton
and Bognor Regis
—Victorian
seaside resorts which form the focal points of the nearly continuous urban area around the River Arun
estuary. Surrounding villages, and their ancient and modern churches, have been absorbed by the 20th-century growth of these towns. Further north, the important hilltop town of Arundel
has a Roman Catholic cathedral and a long established Anglican
church, and was a centre of Nonconformist
worship.
English Heritage
has awarded listed status to nearly 40 current and former church buildings in Arun. A building is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport
, a Government
department, is responsible for this; English Heritage, a non-departmental public body
, acts as an agency of the department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of "special interest". As of February 2001, there were 23 Grade I-listed buildings, 24 with Grade II* status and 913 Grade II-listed buildings in Arun.
coast and its hinterland in the county of West Sussex
. Its name comes from the River Arun
, which flows north–south through the middle of the district and reaches the sea at Littlehampton
, one of the main towns and the district's administrative headquarters. Littlehampton developed as a seaside resort in the 19th century; now, together with its eastern suburbs of Rustington
, East Preston
and Angmering
(originally separate villages), it forms part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton
conurbation. Each urban centre has several churches including an old Anglican parish church
. West of the Arun estuary, the Bognor Regis
conurbation includes the suburbs of Elmer
, Middleton-on-Sea
, Felpham
, Aldwick
and Pagham
, and the 19th-century seaside resort of Bognor (suffixed Regis from 1929) itself. Many churches exist within this urban area as well. The mostly flat hinterland supports a market gardening industry
and several villages and suburbs whose development was stimulated by 19th-century rail links
. Further north, on the southern slopes of the South Downs
, hamlets
such as Madehurst
, Houghton
, Burpham
and Poling have existed for hundreds of years, clustered around their churches. Also in the north of the district is Arundel
, an ancient hilltop town with a landmark castle
and Roman Catholic cathedral
which together make it "from a distance ... one of the great town views in England". Until the coastal strip became heavily urbanised from the late 19th century, Arundel was the "main urban focus" of the area, and it supported places of worship for several Christian denominations. Protestant Nonconformism
was particularly strong in the town.
Anglicanism
, England's state religion
, is represented by ancient and modern churches throughout the district. Simple Norman-era
and early medieval buildings include those at Ford
, Burpham (whose cruciform
design is uncommon in the area), Tortington
and Pagham. Another period of churchbuilding started in the 19th century in response to increasing urbanisation. In Bognor Regis, a church dedicated to St John the Baptist was built speculatively in 1821; it was pulled down in favour of Arthur Blomfield
's large, "uninspired" replacement of 1886. This was in turn demolished in 1972, and the town's main Anglican church is now St Wilfrid's, a stone Gothic Revival
building of 1910 by G.H. Fellowes-Prynne. Littlehampton's parish church, dedicated to St Mary, has medieval origins but was completely rebuilt in 1826 and again in 1935 (in an "eerie, disembodied Gothic Revival" style according to Ian Nairn
and Nikolaus Pevsner
). In the late 19th and 20th centuries, suburbs such as North Bersted
, Aldwick and Wick
were allocated parishes and given their own churches. Mission rooms—small, cheap chapels of ease
in outlying settlements distant from their parish church—were opened in places such as Lidsey, Westergate
and Warningcamp
.
Roman Catholic worship was outlawed for centuries after the English Reformation
, but from the mid-19th century it experienced "a striking growth ... in and around Arundel", helped by the construction of the lavish Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard in 1869–73. This became Arundel Cathedral in 1965 when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton was created, and is the administrative centre of that region. The staunchly Catholic Dukes of Norfolk
, whose seat is at Arundel Castle, were influential in Catholicism's development in Arundel and the rest of England for many years. An Anglican vicar of the 1860s said there were more Roman Catholics than Anglicans in the parish of Arundel, and about 750 lived in the area in 1973. Elsewhere in the district, Roman Catholic worship has taken place at Slindon
since the late 18th century, and the present church dates from 1865; a late 19th-century priest at Arundel founded churches at Angmering, Houghton (both now closed) and Littlehampton; and Rustington and East Preston gained churches in the 20th century. Monks of the Servite Order
founded Bognor Regis's Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in 1881.
Protestant Nonconformism—a strong force in Sussex since the 17th century—continues to thrive. Baptists, Methodists
, the United Reformed Church
, Plymouth Brethren
, Quakers
and other denominations are represented in the main towns and in some cases the smaller villages: for example, Baptists have met at Walberton since the 1840s and Methodists at Westergate since 1851. Congregationalists—predecessors of the current United Reformed denomination—found success in Arundel, where their chapel
of 1838 (now a market) thrived until the late 20th century and established daughter churches in nearby villages such as Yapton
. Quakers in Littlehampton took over a former Penny School building as their place of worship, and converted barns house Brethren in Felpham, Evangelicals in Aldwick and Baptists in Angmering (whose "strangely towered" former chapel
is now in residential use). Baptists in Arundel and Walberton also sold their original chapels and built new ones.
For centuries, coastal erosion
has affected the area covered by the modern district. Several churches and whole settlements have been lost to the sea or to depopulation brought about by erosion. Cudlow and Ilsham, both in Climping parish, lost their churches by the 17th century, as did nearby Atherington. The church at Middleton-on-Sea fell into disrepair by the late 18th century, and the sea was eroding the graveyard, revealing dead bodies. Destruction came in 1838, when a high tide engulfed the ruins. A new church was built soon afterwards. The ancient chapel of St Bartholomew at Bognor was washed away in the early 16th century. In the parish of Angmering, only St Margaret's Church survives: it was described as the church of West Angmering during the medieval era, when East Angmering and Barpham each had their own building. Barpham's fell down and went out of use in the 16th century, and East Angmering's was derelict by the same time and no longer survives. Excavations in the 20th century revealed fragmentary remains of each. Some other churches and chapels fell out of use before the English Reformation
but survive in other uses—for example at Bilsham (now a house), Nyetimber (part of a retirement home complex) and Bailiffscourt
(in the grounds of a luxury hotel).
, 140,759 people lived in Arun. Of these, 76.6% identified themselves as Christian, 0.38% were Muslim
, 0.19% were Jewish
, 0.18% were Buddhist
, 0.1% were Hindu
, 0.02% were Sikh
, 0.29% followed another religion, 14.68% claimed no religious affiliation and 7.56% did not state their religion. The proportion of Christians was higher than the 72.8% in England as a whole, and the proportions of people with no religious affiliation was similar to the national figure of 14.59%. Other religions named in the Census had much lower proportions of followers than in England overall—the corresponding national percentages were 3.1% for Islam, 1.11% for Hinduism, 0.67% for Sikhism and 0.52% for Judaism—but the proportion of residents identifying with the "any other religion" category matched the national figure of 0.29%.
, whose cathedral
is at Chichester
, and (with one exception) the Archdeacon
ry of Chichester—one of three subdivisions which make up the next highest level of administration. In turn, this archdeaconry is divided into five deaneries
. The churches at Clapham
, Ferring
, Findon
and Patching
are in the Rural Deanery of Worthing. Those at Aldingbourne
, Aldwick
, Angmering
, Arundel
, Barnham
, Binsted
, Bognor Regis
, Burpham
, Climping
, Eartham
, East Preston
, Eastergate
, Felpham
, Ford
, Lyminster
, Madehurst
, Middleton-on-Sea
, North Bersted
, Pagham
, Poling, Rustington
, Slindon
, South Bersted
, South Stoke
, Walberton
, Wick
and Yapton
, and the two in Littlehampton
, are part of the Rural Deanery of Arundel and Bognor. Houghton
's church is within the Rural Deanery of Petworth in the Archdeaconry of Horsham.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, whose cathedral
is at Arundel
, administers the district's eight Roman Catholic churches. Those at Bognor Regis and Slindon, and Arundel Cathedral itself, are in Cathedral Deanery. East Preston, Littlehampton and Rustington's churches are part of Worthing Deanery.
Some Methodist
and United Reformed
churches in the district are part of the South West Sussex United Area, founded in January 2010 as an ecumenical arrangement between the local Methodist Circuit and the Southern Synod of the United Reformed Church. Bognor Regis, Felpham, Rustington and Westergate Methodist Churches, Pagham and Rustington United Reformed Churches and the Littlehampton United Church (a joint congregation of both denominations) are part of the United Area.
Baptist churches at Angmering
, Aldwick
, Arundel
, Bognor Regis
, Ferring
and Littlehampton
are administratively part of the West Sussex Network of the South Eastern Baptist Association.
Arun
Arun is a local government district in West Sussex, England. It contains the towns of Arundel, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, and takes its name from the River Arun, which runs through the centre of the district.-History:...
, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...
, has nearly 90 current and former places of worship. As of , 68 active churches and chapels serve the dense urban development on the English Channel
English Channel
The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
coast and the mostly rural hinterland of ancient towns and villages; a further 20 former places of worship still stand but are no longer in religious use. Many churches, serving a wide variety of Christian denomination
Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and doctrine within Christianity. In the Orthodox tradition, Churches are divided often along ethnic and linguistic lines, into separate churches and traditions. Technically, divisions between one group and...
s, are located in the main towns of Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....
and Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...
—Victorian
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
seaside resorts which form the focal points of the nearly continuous urban area around the River Arun
River Arun
The Arun is a river in the English county of West Sussex. Its source is a series of small streams in the St Leonard's Forest area, to the east of Horsham...
estuary. Surrounding villages, and their ancient and modern churches, have been absorbed by the 20th-century growth of these towns. Further north, the important hilltop town of Arundel
Arundel
Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
has a Roman Catholic cathedral and a long established Anglican
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...
church, and was a centre of Nonconformist
Nonconformism
Nonconformity is the refusal to "conform" to, or follow, the governance and usages of the Church of England by the Protestant Christians of England and Wales.- Origins and use:...
worship.
English Heritage
English Heritage
English Heritage . is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
has awarded listed status to nearly 40 current and former church buildings in Arun. A building is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
The Planning Act 1990 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the laws on granting of planning permission for building works, notably including those of the listed building system in England and Wales....
. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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, a Government
Government of the United Kingdom
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department, is responsible for this; English Heritage, a non-departmental public body
Non-departmental public body
In the United Kingdom, a non-departmental public body —often referred to as a quango—is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive to certain types of public bodies...
, acts as an agency of the department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of "special interest". As of February 2001, there were 23 Grade I-listed buildings, 24 with Grade II* status and 913 Grade II-listed buildings in Arun.
Overview of the district and its places of worship
The district of Arun, created in 1974, covers a 22811 hectares (56,367.2 acre) area of the English ChannelEnglish Channel
The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
coast and its hinterland in the county of West Sussex
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...
. Its name comes from the River Arun
River Arun
The Arun is a river in the English county of West Sussex. Its source is a series of small streams in the St Leonard's Forest area, to the east of Horsham...
, which flows north–south through the middle of the district and reaches the sea at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....
, one of the main towns and the district's administrative headquarters. Littlehampton developed as a seaside resort in the 19th century; now, together with its eastern suburbs of Rustington
Rustington
Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative...
, East Preston
East Preston, West Sussex
East Preston is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly half way between Littlehampton and Worthing...
and Angmering
Angmering
Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away...
(originally separate villages), it forms part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton
Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton
The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation has a population of 461,181 , making it the 12th largest conurbation in the United Kingdom, after Greater Belfast and ahead of Edinburgh. It is England's 10th largest conurbation. Named the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation by the Office...
conurbation. Each urban centre has several churches including an old Anglican parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
. West of the Arun estuary, the Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...
conurbation includes the suburbs of Elmer
Elmer, West Sussex
Elmer is a settlement in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis. Its postal address is "Elmer, Middleton-on-Sea"...
, Middleton-on-Sea
Middleton-on-Sea
Middleton-on-Sea is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area of Bognor Regis, lying to the east of the town and neighbouring Felpham...
, Felpham
Felpham
Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The...
, Aldwick
Aldwick
Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire...
and Pagham
Pagham
Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,...
, and the 19th-century seaside resort of Bognor (suffixed Regis from 1929) itself. Many churches exist within this urban area as well. The mostly flat hinterland supports a market gardening industry
Market garden
A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants. It is distinguishable from other types of farming by the diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, typically, from under one acre ...
and several villages and suburbs whose development was stimulated by 19th-century rail links
West Coastway Line
The West Coastway Line is a railway line in England, along the south coast of West Sussex and Hampshire, between Brighton and Southampton, plus the short branches to Littlehampton and Bognor Regis....
. Further north, on the southern slopes of the South Downs
South Downs
The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose...
, hamlets
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
such as Madehurst
Madehurst
Madehurst is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located four miles to the north-west of Arundel, to the west of the A29 road. The civil parish covers an area of 765.96ha and has a population of 105 persons .The village of Madehurst is situated...
, Houghton
Houghton, West Sussex
Houghton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the River Arun five kilometres to the north of Arundel...
, Burpham
Burpham
Burpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The village is on an arm of the River Arun slightly less than northeast of Arundel.The civil parish has an area of...
and Poling have existed for hundreds of years, clustered around their churches. Also in the north of the district is Arundel
Arundel
Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
, an ancient hilltop town with a landmark castle
Arundel Castle
Arundel Castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England is a restored medieval castle. It was founded by Roger de Montgomery on Christmas Day 1067. Roger became the first to hold the earldom of Arundel by the graces of William the Conqueror...
and Roman Catholic cathedral
Arundel Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Arundel, West Sussex, England. Dedicated in 1873 as the Catholic parish church of Arundel, it was not designated a cathedral until the foundation of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in 1965...
which together make it "from a distance ... one of the great town views in England". Until the coastal strip became heavily urbanised from the late 19th century, Arundel was the "main urban focus" of the area, and it supported places of worship for several Christian denominations. Protestant Nonconformism
Nonconformism
Nonconformity is the refusal to "conform" to, or follow, the governance and usages of the Church of England by the Protestant Christians of England and Wales.- Origins and use:...
was particularly strong in the town.
Anglicanism
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...
, England's state religion
State religion
A state religion is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state...
, is represented by ancient and modern churches throughout the district. Simple Norman-era
Norman architecture
About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the...
and early medieval buildings include those at Ford
Ford, West Sussex
Ford is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located 3 km to the south-west of Arundel...
, Burpham (whose cruciform
Cruciform
Cruciform means having the shape of a cross or Christian cross.- Cruciform architectural plan :This is a common description of Christian churches. In Early Christian, Byzantine and other Eastern Orthodox forms of church architecture this is more likely to mean a tetraconch plan, a Greek cross,...
design is uncommon in the area), Tortington
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Tortington
St Mary Magdalene's Church is the former Anglican parish church of the hamlet of Tortington in the district of Arun, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Founded in the 12th century to serve a priory and villagers in the riverside location, it has...
and Pagham. Another period of churchbuilding started in the 19th century in response to increasing urbanisation. In Bognor Regis, a church dedicated to St John the Baptist was built speculatively in 1821; it was pulled down in favour of Arthur Blomfield
Arthur Blomfield
Sir Arthur William Blomfield was an English architect.-Background:The fourth son of Charles James Blomfield, an Anglican Bishop of London helpfully began a programme of new church construction in the capital. Born in Fulham Palace, Arthur Blomfield was educated at Rugby and Trinity College,...
's large, "uninspired" replacement of 1886. This was in turn demolished in 1972, and the town's main Anglican church is now St Wilfrid's, a stone Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
building of 1910 by G.H. Fellowes-Prynne. Littlehampton's parish church, dedicated to St Mary, has medieval origins but was completely rebuilt in 1826 and again in 1935 (in an "eerie, disembodied Gothic Revival" style according to Ian Nairn
Ian Nairn
Ian Nairn was a British architectural critic and topographer.He had no formal architecture qualifications; he was a mathematics graduate and a Royal Air Force pilot...
and Nikolaus Pevsner
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...
). In the late 19th and 20th centuries, suburbs such as North Bersted
Bersted
Bersted is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,443. It is made up mainly of two villages, North Bersted and Shripney....
, Aldwick and Wick
Wick, West Sussex
Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles north of the town centre....
were allocated parishes and given their own churches. Mission rooms—small, cheap chapels of ease
Chapel of ease
A chapel of ease is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently....
in outlying settlements distant from their parish church—were opened in places such as Lidsey, Westergate
Aldingbourne
Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester....
and Warningcamp
Warningcamp
Warningcamp is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located to the north-east of Arundel, on the east bank of the River Arun. The civil parish covers an area of and has a population of 161 persons ....
.
Roman Catholic worship was outlawed for centuries after the English Reformation
English Reformation
The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....
, but from the mid-19th century it experienced "a striking growth ... in and around Arundel", helped by the construction of the lavish Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard in 1869–73. This became Arundel Cathedral in 1965 when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton was created, and is the administrative centre of that region. The staunchly Catholic Dukes of Norfolk
Duke of Norfolk
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, the Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the title refers to the...
, whose seat is at Arundel Castle, were influential in Catholicism's development in Arundel and the rest of England for many years. An Anglican vicar of the 1860s said there were more Roman Catholics than Anglicans in the parish of Arundel, and about 750 lived in the area in 1973. Elsewhere in the district, Roman Catholic worship has taken place at Slindon
Slindon
Slindon is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, nestling in woodlands on the southern edge of the South Downs. Slindon lies approximately seven miles north-east of Chichester...
since the late 18th century, and the present church dates from 1865; a late 19th-century priest at Arundel founded churches at Angmering, Houghton (both now closed) and Littlehampton; and Rustington and East Preston gained churches in the 20th century. Monks of the Servite Order
Servite Order
The Servite Order is one of the five original Catholic mendicant orders. Its objects are the sanctification of its members, preaching the Gospel, and the propagation of devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. The members of the Order use O.S.M. as their post-nominal...
founded Bognor Regis's Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in 1881.
Protestant Nonconformism—a strong force in Sussex since the 17th century—continues to thrive. Baptists, Methodists
Methodism
Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
, the United Reformed Church
United Reformed Church
The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:...
, Plymouth Brethren
Plymouth Brethren
The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is...
, Quakers
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
and other denominations are represented in the main towns and in some cases the smaller villages: for example, Baptists have met at Walberton since the 1840s and Methodists at Westergate since 1851. Congregationalists—predecessors of the current United Reformed denomination—found success in Arundel, where their chapel
Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel
Trinity Congregational Church, later known as Union Chapel, is a former place of worship for Congregationalists and Independent Christians in Arundel, an ancient town in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Protestant Nonconformism has always been strong in the town, and the chapel's...
of 1838 (now a market) thrived until the late 20th century and established daughter churches in nearby villages such as Yapton
Yapton
Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is three miles to the north-west of Bognor Regis at the intersection of the B2132 and B2233 roads...
. Quakers in Littlehampton took over a former Penny School building as their place of worship, and converted barns house Brethren in Felpham, Evangelicals in Aldwick and Baptists in Angmering (whose "strangely towered" former chapel
Angmering Baptist Church
The present Angmering Baptist Church and its predecessor building, known as Church of Christ, are respectively the current and former Baptist places of worship in Angmering, a village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Baptist worship in the area can be traced back to 1846, when the...
is now in residential use). Baptists in Arundel and Walberton also sold their original chapels and built new ones.
For centuries, coastal erosion
Coastal erosion
Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land and the removal of beach or dune sediments by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, or drainage...
has affected the area covered by the modern district. Several churches and whole settlements have been lost to the sea or to depopulation brought about by erosion. Cudlow and Ilsham, both in Climping parish, lost their churches by the 17th century, as did nearby Atherington. The church at Middleton-on-Sea fell into disrepair by the late 18th century, and the sea was eroding the graveyard, revealing dead bodies. Destruction came in 1838, when a high tide engulfed the ruins. A new church was built soon afterwards. The ancient chapel of St Bartholomew at Bognor was washed away in the early 16th century. In the parish of Angmering, only St Margaret's Church survives: it was described as the church of West Angmering during the medieval era, when East Angmering and Barpham each had their own building. Barpham's fell down and went out of use in the 16th century, and East Angmering's was derelict by the same time and no longer survives. Excavations in the 20th century revealed fragmentary remains of each. Some other churches and chapels fell out of use before the English Reformation
English Reformation
The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....
but survive in other uses—for example at Bilsham (now a house), Nyetimber (part of a retirement home complex) and Bailiffscourt
Bailiffscourt Chapel
Bailiffscourt Chapel is a deconsecrated chapel in the grounds of Bailiffscourt Hotel, a luxury hotel near the hamlet of Atherington in West Sussex, England. Originally associated with the Norman Abbey of Séez, it was founded in the 11th century and rebuilt in its present simple Gothic form in the...
(in the grounds of a luxury hotel).
Religious affiliation
According to the 2001 United Kingdom CensusCensus in the United Kingdom
Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 and in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in 1921; simultaneous censuses were taken in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, with...
, 140,759 people lived in Arun. Of these, 76.6% identified themselves as Christian, 0.38% were Muslim
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
, 0.19% were Jewish
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, 0.18% were Buddhist
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
, 0.1% were Hindu
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
, 0.02% were Sikh
Sikhism
Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...
, 0.29% followed another religion, 14.68% claimed no religious affiliation and 7.56% did not state their religion. The proportion of Christians was higher than the 72.8% in England as a whole, and the proportions of people with no religious affiliation was similar to the national figure of 14.59%. Other religions named in the Census had much lower proportions of followers than in England overall—the corresponding national percentages were 3.1% for Islam, 1.11% for Hinduism, 0.67% for Sikhism and 0.52% for Judaism—but the proportion of residents identifying with the "any other religion" category matched the national figure of 0.29%.
Administration
All Anglican churches in Arun district are part of the Diocese of ChichesterDiocese of Chichester
The Diocese of Chichester is a Church of England diocese based in Chichester, covering Sussex. It was created in 1075 to replace the old Diocese of Selsey, which was based at Selsey Abbey from 681. The cathedral is Chichester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Chichester...
, whose cathedral
Chichester Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, otherwise called Chichester Cathedral, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in Sussex, England...
is at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...
, and (with one exception) the Archdeacon
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...
ry of Chichester—one of three subdivisions which make up the next highest level of administration. In turn, this archdeaconry is divided into five deaneries
Deanery
A Deanery is an ecclesiastical entity in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a Dean.- Catholic usage :...
. The churches at Clapham
Clapham, West Sussex
Clapham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish has a population of 317 in an area of . It lies three miles north of Angmering on the A280 road and north of the A27 crossroads...
, Ferring
Ferring
Ferring is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area of Worthing and is located on the A259 road west of the town. The parish has a land area of 430.6 hectares...
, Findon
Findon, West Sussex
Findon is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, four miles north of Worthing. The parish has an area of 16.41 km² and a population of 1848 persons ....
and Patching
Patching
Patching is a small village and civil parish that lies amidst the fields and woods of the southern slopes of the South Downs in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It has a history going back to before the Domesday survey of 1087. It is located four miles to the east of Arundel, to the...
are in the Rural Deanery of Worthing. Those at Aldingbourne
Aldingbourne
Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester....
, Aldwick
Aldwick
Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire...
, Angmering
Angmering
Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away...
, Arundel
Arundel
Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
, Barnham
Barnham, West Sussex
Barnham is a large village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, about five miles north of Bognor Regis. The civil parish had a population of 1,270 persons according to the 1991 census, although the adjacent area of 'West Barnham' adds a further 3,107 to the total...
, Binsted
Binsted
Binsted is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The village is about four miles east of Alton. The nearest railway station is 1.8 miles northeast of the village, at Bentley....
, Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...
, Burpham
Burpham
Burpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The village is on an arm of the River Arun slightly less than northeast of Arundel.The civil parish has an area of...
, Climping
Clymping
Clymping is a civil parish, located around the hamlet of Climping in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is located three miles west of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road...
, Eartham
Eartham
Eartham is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England located north east of Chichester east of the A285 road....
, East Preston
East Preston, West Sussex
East Preston is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly half way between Littlehampton and Worthing...
, Eastergate
Eastergate
Eastergate is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles east of Chichester...
, Felpham
Felpham
Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The...
, Ford
Ford, West Sussex
Ford is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located 3 km to the south-west of Arundel...
, Lyminster
Lyminster
Lyminster is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the outskirts of the built-up area of Littlehampton, two miles north of the town centre. The civil parish covers an area of and has a population of 351 persons...
, Madehurst
Madehurst
Madehurst is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located four miles to the north-west of Arundel, to the west of the A29 road. The civil parish covers an area of 765.96ha and has a population of 105 persons .The village of Madehurst is situated...
, Middleton-on-Sea
Middleton-on-Sea
Middleton-on-Sea is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area of Bognor Regis, lying to the east of the town and neighbouring Felpham...
, North Bersted
Bersted
Bersted is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,443. It is made up mainly of two villages, North Bersted and Shripney....
, Pagham
Pagham
Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,...
, Poling, Rustington
Rustington
Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative...
, Slindon
Slindon
Slindon is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, nestling in woodlands on the southern edge of the South Downs. Slindon lies approximately seven miles north-east of Chichester...
, South Bersted
South Bersted
South Bersted is a village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It forms part of the built up area of Bognor Regis and lies on the A259 and A29 roads one mile north of the town centre....
, South Stoke
South Stoke, West Sussex
South Stoke is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located two miles to the north of Arundel, and is situated on the west bank of the River Arun on the edge of Arundel Park. It is reached by road from Arundel. A footpath leads to North Stoke on the...
, Walberton
Walberton
Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of and has a population...
, Wick
Wick, West Sussex
Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles north of the town centre....
and Yapton
Yapton
Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is three miles to the north-west of Bognor Regis at the intersection of the B2132 and B2233 roads...
, and the two in Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....
, are part of the Rural Deanery of Arundel and Bognor. Houghton
Houghton, West Sussex
Houghton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the River Arun five kilometres to the north of Arundel...
's church is within the Rural Deanery of Petworth in the Archdeaconry of Horsham.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, whose cathedral
Arundel Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Arundel, West Sussex, England. Dedicated in 1873 as the Catholic parish church of Arundel, it was not designated a cathedral until the foundation of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in 1965...
is at Arundel
Arundel
Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
, administers the district's eight Roman Catholic churches. Those at Bognor Regis and Slindon, and Arundel Cathedral itself, are in Cathedral Deanery. East Preston, Littlehampton and Rustington's churches are part of Worthing Deanery.
Some Methodist
Methodism
Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
and United Reformed
United Reformed Church
The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:...
churches in the district are part of the South West Sussex United Area, founded in January 2010 as an ecumenical arrangement between the local Methodist Circuit and the Southern Synod of the United Reformed Church. Bognor Regis, Felpham, Rustington and Westergate Methodist Churches, Pagham and Rustington United Reformed Churches and the Littlehampton United Church (a joint congregation of both denominations) are part of the United Area.
Baptist churches at Angmering
Angmering
Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away...
, Aldwick
Aldwick
Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire...
, Arundel
Arundel
Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
, Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...
, Ferring
Ferring
Ferring is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area of Worthing and is located on the A259 road west of the town. The parish has a land area of 430.6 hectares...
and Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....
are administratively part of the West Sussex Network of the South Eastern Baptist Association.
Open places of worship
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| St Mary the Virgin Church | Aldingbourne Aldingbourne Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester.... 50.8415°N 0.6899°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Some early 12th-century work remains in the form of a window and a blank arcade—a reminder of a now vanished aisle. The ashlar Ashlar Ashlar is prepared stone work of any type of stone. Masonry using such stones laid in parallel courses is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. Ashlar blocks are rectangular cuboid blocks that are masonry sculpted to have square edges... and rubble exterior mostly dates from an 1867 restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... by Ewan Christian Ewan Christian Ewan Christian was a British architect. He is most notable for the restoration of Carlisle Cathedral, the alterations to Christ Church, Spitalfields in 1866, and the extension to the National Gallery that created the National Portrait Gallery. He was architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners... , although the unusual turreted wall of the south aisle remains. The tower is Early English in style. |
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| St Richard's Church | Aldwick Aldwick Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire... 50.7838°N 0.7110°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Francis Troup's church of 1933–34, serving this high-class interwar suburb of Bognor Regis, was condemned as "horrible" by Ian Nairn Ian Nairn Ian Nairn was a British architectural critic and topographer.He had no formal architecture qualifications; he was a mathematics graduate and a Royal Air Force pilot... for its "debilitated Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... " design. It was founded on 3 April 1933 and is built of brown brick with stone dressings. |
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| King's Gate Church | Aldwick Aldwick Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire... 50.7848°N 0.7045°W |
Evangelical Evangelicalism Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:... |
This Evangelical congregation meets in the Rowland Rank Centre, converted from a barn in 1982 and named after J. Arthur Rank's brother. Founded in 1962 as a house church House church House church, or "home church", is used to describe an independent assembly of Christians who gather in a home. Sometimes this occurs because the group is small, and a home is the most appropriate place to gather, as in the beginning phase of the British New Church Movement... , it developed into the Chichester Christian Fellowship and met there Chichester Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings... . Further growth resulted in a separation in 1982 into Bognor Regis and Chichester congregations. The name King's Gate Church was adopted in 2007. |
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| St Margaret's Church | Angmering Angmering Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away... 50.8289°N 0.4862°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
S.S. Teulon Samuel Sanders Teulon Samuel Sanders Teulon was a notable 19th century English Gothic Revival architect.-Family:Teulon was born in Greenwich in south-east London, the son of a cabinet-maker from a French Huguenot family. His younger brother William Milford Teulon also became an architect... 's wholesale rebuilding of 1852–53 retained some medieval fabric, including an Early English-style door (although this was resited). The substantial, buttress Buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall... ed tower dates from 1507, and a side chapel is dedicated to the Gratwick family. The church stands on raised ground in a large churchyard. |
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| St Margaret's Community Church at St Margaret's Primary School | Angmering Angmering Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away... 50.8358°N 0.4845°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The school is the meeting place of St Margaret's Community Church, founded in 2003 as a sister church of St Margaret's, Angmering. | |||
| Angmering Baptist Church Angmering Baptist Church The present Angmering Baptist Church and its predecessor building, known as Church of Christ, are respectively the current and former Baptist places of worship in Angmering, a village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Baptist worship in the area can be traced back to 1846, when the... |
Angmering Angmering Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away... 50.8248°N 0.4865°W |
Baptist | The former Baptist chapel nearby was unsuitable by the 1960s, so this former barn was converted into a new church in 1970 and extended to give a capacity of 150 worshippers. Membership in 1985 was recorded as 87. | |||
| St Nicholas' Church | Arundel Arundel Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to... 50.8559°N 0.5570°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
In the 12th century, the pre-Norman Conquest Norman conquest of England The Norman conquest of England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy. William became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating King Harold II of England... church was linked to the abbey at Séez Sées Sées is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.It lies on the Orne River from its source and north-by-northeast of Alençon.-Name:... as a priory, and it thrived throughout the Middle Ages Middle Ages The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern... . The present flint, Caen stone Caen stone Caen stone or Pierre de Caen, is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in northwestern France near the city of Caen.The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ago... and sandstone Sandstone Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,... church dates from the 14th and 15th centuries: it was rebuilt from 1380 in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The Fitzalan Chapel Fitzalan Chapel The Fitzalan Chapel is located within the eastern end of the church building constructed on the western grounds of Arundel Castle. This church building is one of the very few church buildings that is currently divided into two worship spaces, one Catholic and one Anglican, with the western side of... forms the eastern section. |
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| Arundel Baptist Church | Arundel Arundel Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to... 50.8524°N 0.5627°W |
Baptist | The former Baptist chapel in Arun Street closed in 1967, but the cause was restarted six years later with the help of Angmering's church. Lancing Lancing, West Sussex Lancing is a town and civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex, England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley. It lies on the coastal plain between Sompting to the west, Shoreham-by-Sea to the east and the parish of Coombes to the north... 's minister later took over responsibility. The 80-capacity building dates from 1980. |
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| Cathedral of Our Lady and St Philip Howard Arundel Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Arundel, West Sussex, England. Dedicated in 1873 as the Catholic parish church of Arundel, it was not designated a cathedral until the foundation of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in 1965... |
Arundel Arundel Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to... 50.8552°N 0.5588°W |
Roman Catholic | Joseph Hansom Joseph Hansom Joseph Aloysius Hansom was a prolific English architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style, who invented the Hansom cab and was one of the founders of the eminent architectural journal, The Builder, in 1843.... 's design of 1868–69 was completed four years later. The Bath Stone Bath Stone Bath Stone is an Oolitic Limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Originally obtained from the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England, its warm, honey colouring gives the World Heritage City of Bath, England its distinctive appearance... French French Gothic architecture French Gothic architecture is a style of architecture prevalent in France from 1140 until about 1500.-Sequence of Gothic styles: France:The designations of styles in French Gothic architecture are as follows:* Early Gothic* High Gothic... Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... building dominates the town's skyline despite the absence of a planned tower; the roof has a flèche Flèche A flèche is used in French architecture to refer to a spire and in English to refer to a lead-covered timber spire, or spirelet. These are placed on the ridges of church or cathedral roofs and are usually relatively small... , though. The tall, soaring interior has high-quality stained glass Stained glass The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings... by Hardman & Co. Hardman & Co. Hardman & Co., otherwise John Hardman Trading Co., Ltd., founded 1838, began manufacturing stained glass in 1844 and became one of the world's leading manufacturers of stained glass and ecclesiastical fittings... It became a cathedral in 1965. |
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| St Mary the Virgin Church | Barnham Barnham, West Sussex Barnham is a large village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, about five miles north of Bognor Regis. The civil parish had a population of 1,270 persons according to the 1991 census, although the adjacent area of 'West Barnham' adds a further 3,107 to the total... 50.8237°N 0.6435°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This simple church has Norman Norman architecture About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the... and 13th-century fabric. "One of Sussex's nicest exteriors" (according to Ian Nairn Ian Nairn Ian Nairn was a British architectural critic and topographer.He had no formal architecture qualifications; he was a mathematics graduate and a Royal Air Force pilot... ) has a white weatherboarded Weatherboarding Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin timber boards that overlap one another, either vertically or horizontally on the outside of the wall. They are usually of rectangular section with parallel sides... belfry Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... . The plain nave and chancel have no division. |
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| St Mary's Church | Binsted Walberton Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of and has a population... 50.8454°N 0.6061°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Sir Thomas Jackson Thomas Graham Jackson Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation... restored Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... this small, remote Norman church in 1867. Some 12th-century work remains, though, including a mural featuring a Tree of Life. The building has a nave and chancel with no chancel arch, a small belfry Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... and a timber-framed Timber framing Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns... roof. |
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| St Wilfrid's Church | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7826°N 0.6845°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
G.H. Fellowes-Prynne's Perpendicular Gothic Revival design has been criticised as "hard and heartless". The tall, wide church, built of stone with a multicoloured brick interior, appears unfinished: the two-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... is shorter than intended. An apse Apse In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome... beyond it contains a Lady chapel Lady chapel A Lady chapel, also called Mary chapel or Marian chapel, is a traditional English term for a chapel inside a cathedral, basilica, or large church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary... . Now a parish church Parish church A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.... , it used to be a chapel of ease Chapel of ease A chapel of ease is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.... to the now demolished St John the Baptist's Church. |
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| Open Gate Church | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7873°N 0.6828°W |
Baptist | Baptists worshipped in Bognor Regis from 1903, but their original chapel passed to the Salvation Army The Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries.... and a new brick building was erected on Victoria Drive in 1964. |
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| Bognor Regis Methodist Church | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7829°N 0.6759°W |
Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
This centrally located church dates from 1925 and replaced the original 1840 chapel—demolished in 1980 after a period of commercial use. Another Methodist chapel existed between 1876 and 1932 nearby. James Withers adopted the Arts and Crafts Arts and Crafts movement Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s... style and provided a galleried and arcaded interior. The brown-brick exterior has a tower. |
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| London Road Gospel Hall | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7870°N 0.6741°W |
Plymouth Brethren Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is... |
Brethren worshipped in the former Primitive Methodist Primitive Methodism Primitive Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. The Primitive Methodist Church still exists in the United States.-Origins:... chapel of 1876 in the mid-20th century. This was demolished in 1970, and they now occupy a meeting hall on the London Road. |
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| Friends Meeting House | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7842°N 0.6702°W |
Quaker Religious Society of Friends The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences... |
Quakers in Bognor Regis worship at this meeting house on Victoria Drive. | |||
| Church of Our Lady of Sorrows | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7848°N 0.6776°W |
Roman Catholic | The town had a Servite Servite Order The Servite Order is one of the five original Catholic mendicant orders. Its objects are the sanctification of its members, preaching the Gospel, and the propagation of devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. The members of the Order use O.S.M. as their post-nominal... priory Priory A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters , or monasteries of monks or nuns .The Benedictines and their offshoots , the Premonstratensians, and the... and convent until the 1990s, and priests from the priory founded and served this church at first. Designed by Joseph Stanislaus Hansom Joseph Stanislaus Hansom Joseph Stanislaus Hansom, FRIBA was a British architect. He was the son and partner of the better known Joseph Aloysius Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab. He trained with his father, becoming his partner in 1869 and taking over the family practice fully in 1880.He was among the founders of the... , it was founded on 26 October 1881 and opened on 16 August 1882. Its tall west façade faces a narrow road, and the building goes back a long way: the interior feels open and spacious, although there are side chapels. The five-bay nave was extended by W.C. Mangan in 1955–57; he also added transept Transept For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture... s, a Lady chapel Lady chapel A Lady chapel, also called Mary chapel or Marian chapel, is a traditional English term for a chapel inside a cathedral, basilica, or large church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary... and other rooms. The Early English Gothic Revival church is mostly of yellow brick and stone. Some windows are in the more intricate Perpendicular style. |
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| The Hub | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7845°N 0.6724°W |
Salvation Army The Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries.... |
F.J. Rayner designed this red-brick chapel in 1903 for the town's Baptists. After their new church was built on Victoria Drive in the 1960s, the Salvation Army acquired and renamed it. The entrance is pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... ed. |
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| United National Spiritualist Church | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7817°N 0.6842°W |
Spiritualist Spiritualism Spiritualism is a belief system or religion, postulating the belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living... |
The congregation developed in 1940 and worshipped in a building in Argyle Circus until they raised enough money to purchase a site on nearby Sudley Road and built their own church. They have occupied the present building since 1961. | |||
| Bognor Regis United Reformed Church | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7876°N 0.6798°W |
United Reformed United Reformed Church The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:... |
A small flint church served the town's Congregationalists from 1866 until 1929, after which S.T. Hennell's new larger building (completed in 1930) was used. The brick and stone building is Decorated/Perpendicular Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... . |
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| St Mary's Church | Burpham Burpham Burpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The village is on an arm of the River Arun slightly less than northeast of Arundel.The civil parish has an area of... 50.8710°N 0.5244°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Unusual locally for its cruciform Cruciform Cruciform means having the shape of a cross or Christian cross.- Cruciform architectural plan :This is a common description of Christian churches. In Early Christian, Byzantine and other Eastern Orthodox forms of church architecture this is more likely to mean a tetraconch plan, a Greek cross,... shape, this partly Norman church has a 13th-century chancel Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building... and a later tower. Sir Thomas Jackson's Thomas Graham Jackson Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation... well-regarded renovation of 1868–69 rebuilt an aisle, porch and the south transept Transept For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture... , all removed in 1800. The earliest work dates from the 1160s. |
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| St Mary's Church | Clapham Clapham, West Sussex Clapham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish has a population of 317 in an area of . It lies three miles north of Angmering on the A280 road and north of the A27 crossroads... 50.8489°N 0.4446°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
A simple downland South Downs The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose... church of the late Norman era, around the time of the transition to Early English Gothic, the church retains much 13th-century work despite a modest restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... in 1873. The flint building is aisled and has a hip-roofed Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... tower. |
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| St Mary's Church | Climping Clymping Clymping is a civil parish, located around the hamlet of Climping in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is located three miles west of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road... 50.8138°N 0.5778°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
John Climping John Climping John Climping was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.-Life:Climping was a clerk of Ranulf of Wareham by 18 July 1220. By 1232 he was a canon of Chichester Cathedral and was named Archdeacon of Chichester by December 1242. He was then Chancellor of Chichester by 17 July 1247 as well as rector of... , a Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Chichester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the Counties of East and West Sussex. The see is in the City of Chichester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity... , is the likely founder of this early 13th-century church, about which an ancient Sussex rhyme claims "Climping for perfection". The base of the tower, built in the 1170s, is remarkable for its flamboyance, and a deeply zigzag-moulded Molding (decorative) Molding or moulding is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. It is traditionally made from solid milled wood or plaster but may be made from plastic or reformed wood... window above is unique. The impressive interior has many old fixtures. |
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| St Mary's Church | East Preston East Preston, West Sussex East Preston is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly half way between Littlehampton and Worthing... 50.8125°N 0.4896°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The simple nave and chancel of this church are mostly 13th-century; an earlier doorway survives in the nave. The tower is slightly later and is Perpendicular Gothic in style. George Gilbert Scott George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses... restored Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... the church and added an aisle in 1869, and the spire on the tower was removed in 1951. |
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| Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea | East Preston East Preston, West Sussex East Preston is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly half way between Littlehampton and Worthing... 50.8087°N 0.4798°W |
Roman Catholic | Initially served from Angmering, this is now the only church in the joint parish. The first building, now the church hall, dates from 1957; an extension built in 1987 created a new church adjoining this. Its tile-clad pyramid roof hides a square building. | |||
| St George's Church | Eastergate Eastergate Eastergate is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles east of Chichester... 50.8377°N 0.6591°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This aisleless Norman church was extensively renovated in the Victorian era: many ancient windows were replaced in particular (although one survives in the north wall). Norman-era herringbone brickwork Herringbone pattern The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement.The blocks can be rectangles or parallelograms... is evident on the chancel wall. Some 14th-century stained glass Stained glass The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings... survives. |
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| St Mary's Church | Felpham Felpham Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The... 50.7907°N 0.6545°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The original small 12th-century church has grown steadily over the centuries, gaining aisles, a 14th-century chancel, 15th-century castellated tower, porch and vestry Vestry A vestry is a room in or attached to a church or synagogue in which the vestments, vessels, records, etc., are kept , and in which the clergy and choir robe or don their vestments for divine service.... . The clerestory Clerestory Clerestory is an architectural term that historically denoted an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows. In modern usage, clerestory refers to any high windows... is an unusual survivor from the 13th century. Poet William Hayley William Hayley William Hayley was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper.-Biography:... is commemorated inside. |
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| Kingdom Hall | Felpham Felpham Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The... 50.7962°N 0.6366°W |
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual... |
This Kingdom Hall Kingdom Hall A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii... stands on Flansham Lane. It was in use by 1988. |
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| Felpham Methodist Church | Felpham Felpham Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The... 50.7937°N 0.6388°W |
Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
A former Society of Dependants chapel was used for Methodist services from 1932 until 1939, when the present red-brick church opened nearby. The original capacity was 200, and the building was extended in 1985. | |||
| Brethren Meeting Room | Felpham Felpham Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The... 50.7939°N 0.6373°W |
Plymouth Brethren Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is... |
Brethren now occupy this former school on Middleton Road, which was converted into a Roman Catholic church (dedicated to St Peregrine) in 1934. It was still used by that denomination in the early 1990s. | |||
| St Andrew's Church | Ferring Ferring Ferring is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area of Worthing and is located on the A259 road west of the town. The parish has a land area of 430.6 hectares... 50.8125°N 0.4481°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The flint chancel is mid 13th-century (although Norman Norman architecture About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the... fabric remains, and the windows are later) and a roughcast nave was built in the 17th century. A well-proportioned interior and a tiled belfry contribute to the church's "soft village character". |
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| Ferring Baptist Church | Ferring Ferring Ferring is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area of Worthing and is located on the A259 road west of the town. The parish has a land area of 430.6 hectares... 50.8135°N 0.4491°W |
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The village received its second church in 1973 when this modern-style building opened on Greystoke Road. It could hold 140 worshippers, and there were 73 recorded members in 1985. | |||
| St John the Baptist's Church | Findon Findon, West Sussex Findon is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, four miles north of Worthing. The parish has an area of 16.41 km² and a population of 1848 persons .... 50.8648°N 0.4138°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
A church existed at the time of the Domesday survey Domesday Book Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086... in 1086, but the present fabric is mostly 12th- and 13th-century. The flint and stone building apparently had apsidal Apse In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome... transept Transept For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture... s originally. Giles Gilbert Scott Giles Gilbert Scott Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM, FRIBA was an English architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box.... 's restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... of 1866–68 affected the fittings more than the exterior. The king post King post A king post is a central vertical supporting post used in architectural, bridge, or aircraft design applications.-Architecture:... timber roof is 15th-century. |
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| St Andrew's Church | Ford Ford, West Sussex Ford is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located 3 km to the south-west of Arundel... 50.8243°N 0.5780°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This "very attractive small church" is set in a large churchyard next to the River Arun: its weatherboarded Weatherboarding Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin timber boards that overlap one another, either vertically or horizontally on the outside of the wall. They are usually of rectangular section with parallel sides... bell-turret Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... was painted white as a navigational aid for ships. Most of the fabric is Norman Norman architecture About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the... , but a distinctive semicircular-gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... d brick porch was added to the flint and pebble exterior in 1637 and some restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... took place in 1865. A vestry was added in about 1900. |
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| St Nicholas' Church | Houghton Houghton, West Sussex Houghton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the River Arun five kilometres to the north of Arundel... 50.8947°N 0.5506°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The present appearance of this simple single-cell building is attributable to a careful renovation in 1857. The aisleless nave and chancel form the body of the building, which also has a bellcot Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... and an entrance porch. The church dates from the 13th century. |
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| St Mary's Church | Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8090°N 0.5387°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
George Draper rebuilt the medieval parish church Parish church A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.... in flint in the Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... style in 1826, and it was remodelled again in 1899 by William White William White (architect) William White, F.S.A. was an English architect, famous for his part in 19th century Gothic Revival architecture and church restorations... , who added a chancel in brick. Another rebuilding, this time by William H.R. Blacking in 1934–35 (in red brick and stone), gave the church an "eerie, disembodied Gothic" look. |
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| St James's Church | Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8124°N 0.5440°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
New housing around the Arundel Road encouraged the founding of a church, of the same Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholicism The terms Anglo-Catholic and Anglo-Catholicism describe people, beliefs and practices within Anglicanism that affirm the Catholic, rather than Protestant, heritage and identity of the Anglican churches.... character as the parish church, in 1899. Architects Wheeler and Godman replaced the temporary structure with the present flint and brick Gothic Revival-style Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... church in 1908–10. An intended chancel Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building... was never added, and neither was a hall planned in 1949; the west wall is therefore plain. The font Baptismal font A baptismal font is an article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults.-Aspersion and affusion fonts:... , reredos Reredos thumb|300px|right|An altar and reredos from [[St. Josaphat's Roman Catholic Church|St. Josaphat Catholic Church]] in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. This would be called a [[retable]] in many other languages and countries.... and lectern Lectern A lectern is a reading desk with a slanted top, usually placed on a stand or affixed to some other form of support, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon... came from St Mary's Church. |
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| Littlehampton Baptist Church | Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8084°N 0.5375°W |
Baptist | Baptists first met in the town in 1908, and they moved from their temporary home in a hall to this stone-dressed red-brick "late medieval-style" chapel in 1910. Subsequent enlargement was needed to cater for ever increasing membership, which exceeded 200 by 1985. | |||
| Parkside Evangelical Church | Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8097°N 0.5313°W |
Evangelical Evangelicalism Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:... |
Argyll Hall, by the river, was the town's first Evangelical chapel. The land was needed for roadbuilding in 1972, so the council helped the congregation move to a new site on St Flora's Road, where the present brick building was opened in 1973. It was recorded as a Brethren chapel in 1975. | |||
| Friends Meeting House Littlehampton Friends Meeting House Littlehampton Friends Meeting House is a Religious Society of Friends place of worship in the town of Littlehampton, part of the Arun district of West Sussex, England. A Quaker community has worshipped in the seaside town since the 1960s, when they acquired a former Penny School building... |
Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8097°N 0.5390°W |
Quaker Religious Society of Friends The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences... |
A Mrs Welch founded a Dissenter Dissenter The term dissenter , labels one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc. In the social and religious history of England and Wales, however, it refers particularly to a member of a religious body who has, for one reason or another, separated from the Established Church.Originally, the term... s' "Penny School" in 1835 on Church Street. Up to 65 pupils were on the roll, but it went out of use and was acquired by Plymouth Brethren Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is... and, in 1965, Quakers. The cobbled façade has some grey brickwork and pointed-arched windows with inset lancets Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... . |
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| St Catherine's Church | Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8060°N 0.5396°W |
Roman Catholic | The Duchess of Norfolk Augusta Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Hon. Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons* Born Torquay, Devon, 1 August 1821* Died Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, 22 March 1886Augusta, or Minna as she was more commonly known, was the younger daughter of Edmund Lyons by his wife Augusta Louisa .In 1838/9 Minna was residing with her... paid for this church, which was founded in 1862–63 and rebuilt to Matthew Ellison Hadfield Matthew Ellison Hadfield Matthew Ellison Hadfield was an English architect of the Victorian Gothic revival. He is chiefly known for his work on Roman Catholic churches, including the cathedral churches of Salford and Sheffield.-Training:... 's French French Gothic architecture French Gothic architecture is a style of architecture prevalent in France from 1140 until about 1500.-Sequence of Gothic styles: France:The designations of styles in French Gothic architecture are as follows:* Early Gothic* High Gothic... Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... design in 1883 (when an aisle and a Lady chapel Lady chapel A Lady chapel, also called Mary chapel or Marian chapel, is a traditional English term for a chapel inside a cathedral, basilica, or large church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary... were added). As one of the earliest Roman Catholic churches in Sussex, it initially served a large area—as far as Bognor Regis, Ferring and Westergate. The exterior has gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... s, lancet Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s and rose window Rose window A Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery... s, and there is much marblework inside. |
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| Littlehampton United Church | Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester.... 50.8099°N 0.5442°W |
United Reformed United Reformed Church The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:... /Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
J.G. Stapleton's stone Early English-style church of 1861 was built for Congregationalists. Transept Transept For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture... s were built in 1874, and the roof has a turret-like spire. Since 1980, the church has been shared with Methodists, whose three former churches were at Terminus Road (1825–1898; demolished 1981), New Road (1896–1980; demolished 1982) and Wick (1876–1968; demolished 1968). |
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| St Mary Magdalene's Church | Lyminster Lyminster Lyminster is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the outskirts of the built-up area of Littlehampton, two miles north of the town centre. The civil parish covers an area of and has a population of 351 persons... 50.8335°N 0.5490°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Lyminster's parish church retains some Saxon Anglo-Saxon architecture Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing... work in the nave and chancel, although successive alterations in the 13th, 15th and 19th centuries changed its appearance. An arcade in the nave demonstrates the transition from Norman Norman architecture About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the... to early Gothic architecture Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.... . The castellated tower is Early English/Perpendicular Gothic. |
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| St Mary Magdalene's Church | Madehurst Madehurst Madehurst is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located four miles to the north-west of Arundel, to the west of the A29 road. The civil parish covers an area of 765.96ha and has a population of 105 persons .The village of Madehurst is situated... 50.8810°N 0.6015°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Although its origins are medieval, this remote church was effectively reconstructed in 1864 by Sir Thomas Jackson Thomas Graham Jackson Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation... . The north aisle dates from then, but the chancel and nave retain their original layout. The tower has prominent buttress Buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall... es. |
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| St Nicholas' Church | Middleton-on-Sea Middleton-on-Sea Middleton-on-Sea is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area of Bognor Regis, lying to the east of the town and neighbouring Felpham... 50.7942°N 0.6146°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The original church of this dedication was 13th-century and stood the site of an older one. Coastal erosion Coastal erosion Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land and the removal of beach or dune sediments by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, or drainage... in the 18th century destroyed the graveyard and later the building itself: little remained by 1838, when a high tide wrecked it, and the ruins were removed by the time the new church was built nearby in 1849. The single-cell building was extended in 1929, 1949 and 1978. |
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| Holy Cross Church | North Bersted Bersted Bersted is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,443. It is made up mainly of two villages, North Bersted and Shripney.... 50.8005°N 0.6930°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This Early English Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... church is built of flint with some stonework. It was extended in 1971, but its distinctive west-end spire was taken down in 1977. It was originally a mission church, founded as a chapel of ease Chapel of ease A chapel of ease is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.... to St Mary Magdalene's Church at South Bersted South Bersted South Bersted is a village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It forms part of the built up area of Bognor Regis and lies on the A259 and A29 roads one mile north of the town centre.... . Sources vary as to its construction date, claiming either 1894 or 1904. |
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| Gospel Hall | Norton, Aldingbourne Aldingbourne Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester.... 50.8475°N 0.6874°W |
Plymouth Brethren Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is... |
Planning permission for this meeting room, built alongside some plant nurseries, was granted in 2006. It was licensed for marriages in December 2007. | |||
| St Ninian's Church | Nyetimber Pagham Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,... 50.7775°N 0.7386°W |
United Reformed United Reformed Church The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:... |
The Presbyterian Church of England English Presbyterianism Presbyterianism in England is distinct from Continental and Scottish forms of Presbyterianism. Whereas in Scotland, church government is based on a meeting of delegates, in England the individual congregation is the primary body of government... became part of the United Reformed Church in 1972. Eight years earlier, a congregation began meeting for worship in commercial premises in Pagham (and briefly a cricket pavilion), before building this new church in 1966. |
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| St Thomas a Becket's Church | Pagham Pagham Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,... 50.7701°N 0.7482°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The dedication of this large harbourside Pagham Harbour Pagham Harbour is a natural harbour on England's south coast. It is south of the city of Chichester and near the towns of Pagham and Selsey.Geographically it is the smallest and most easterly of the harbours of the Solent.... church is sometimes given as St Thomas the Martyr. There are transept Transept For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture... s and aisles on the north and south sides of the nave; the north aisle is attached to the tower, which has a shingled Roof shingle Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat rectangular shapes laid in rows from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive higher row overlapping the joints in the row below... spire. Vestries and a 19th-century porch make up the rest of the cruciform structure. It was heavily restored Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... in 1837 by John Elliott. |
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| St John the Divine's Church | Patching Patching Patching is a small village and civil parish that lies amidst the fields and woods of the southern slopes of the South Downs in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It has a history going back to before the Domesday survey of 1087. It is located four miles to the east of Arundel, to the... 50.8486°N 0.4570°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
For many years a chapel linked to St Andrew's Church, West Tarring St Andrew's Church, West Tarring St Andrew's Church is the Anglican parish church of West Tarring, an ancient village which is now part of the town and borough of Worthing, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex... , this ancient flint and stone building is now administratively united with neighbouring Clapham. Repeated restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... s in the 19th centuries, latterly by Henry Woodyer (1888–89), were responsible for the current appearance of the small church, which has a chancel, nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... , porch, vestry and side tower with a shingle-hung Roof shingle Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat rectangular shapes laid in rows from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive higher row overlapping the joints in the row below... spire. |
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This village church has experienced little restoration and has a mostly Saxon Anglo-Saxon architecture Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing... nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... with an early 13th-century aisle on the south side. The chancel Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building... and "particularly good" tower are later additions, and the entrance porch is 19th-century. |
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| Aldwick Free Church | Rose Green, Aldwick Aldwick Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire... 50.7841°N 0.7145°W |
Baptist | This church in the Rose Green area of Aldwick is home to a congregation of Evangelical Baptists. | |||
| St Anthony of Viareggio's Church | Rose Green, Aldwick Aldwick Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire... 50.7847°N 0.7160°W |
Roman Catholic | This church is part of the parish of Bognor Regis. It is a converted bungalow, left in a will to the town's Servite friars and consecrated for worship in May 1963. Antonio Maria Pucci Antonio Maria Pucci Antonio Maria Pucci, O.S.M., was an Italian friar and priest, who was proclaimed a saint by Pope John XXIII on 9 December 1962.... (Anthony of Viareggio), to whom it is dedicated, was himself in the Servite Order Servite Order The Servite Order is one of the five original Catholic mendicant orders. Its objects are the sanctification of its members, preaching the Gospel, and the propagation of devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. The members of the Order use O.S.M. as their post-nominal... . |
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| St Peter and St Paul's Church | Rustington Rustington Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative... 50.8105°N 0.5103°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This Transitional Norman Norman architecture About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the... –Early English Gothic church retains its 12th-century tower with a contemporary arch and octagonal columns. The chancel is 13th-century, and much of the building dates from then or the following century. Little restoration has taken place. |
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| Kingdom Hall | Rustington Rustington Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative... 50.8105°N 0.5121°W |
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual... |
The present building was originally a Christian Science Christian Science Christian Science is a system of thought and practice derived from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Bible. It is practiced by members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist as well as some others who are nonmembers. Its central texts are the Bible and the Christian Science textbook,... reading room Christian Science Reading Room 400px|left|thumb|A typical storefront Christian Science Reading Room on the main street of a suburb of Boston. The window displays a lamp, a large Bible open to the current reading, and copies of Science and Health.... . Local Jehovah's Witnesses acquired it and converted it into a Kingdom Hall Kingdom Hall A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii... in 1962. |
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| Rustington Methodist Church | Rustington Rustington Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative... 50.8100°N 0.5084°W |
Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
The present brick building of 1952, extended in 1975–76, is the town's third place of Methodist worship. A cottage served between 1875 and 1878, then a converted forge Forge A forge is a hearth used for forging. The term "forge" can also refer to the workplace of a smith or a blacksmith, although the term smithy is then more commonly used.The basic smithy contains a forge, also known as a hearth, for heating metals... was used. Road improvements forced its demolition. The 1970s extension gave the congregation an attached hall and community centre. |
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| St Joseph's Church | Rustington Rustington Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative... 50.8132°N 0.5009°W |
Roman Catholic | Provision was made for Roman Catholic worship in Rustington in the 1940s, when the priest of Angmering travelled to celebrate Mass Mass (liturgy) "Mass" is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church: others are "Eucharist", the "Lord's Supper", the "Breaking of Bread", the "Eucharistic assembly ", the "memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection", the "Holy Sacrifice", the "Holy and... in the village hall. The present red-brick church, with a small corner bell-turret Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... with a flat, large cap, dates from 1951. |
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| St Andrew's Church | Rustington Rustington Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative... 50.8081°N 0.5147°W |
United Reformed United Reformed Church The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:... |
Assistance from the Presbyterian English Presbyterianism Presbyterianism in England is distinct from Continental and Scottish forms of Presbyterianism. Whereas in Scotland, church government is based on a meeting of delegates, in England the individual congregation is the primary body of government... church in Worthing Worthing Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester... helped a congregation to develop in Rustington in the 1950s. A Scout hut and a school were used for worship until the present low, steep-roofed building was erected in 1960–61. Additions were made in 1964. |
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| St Mary's Church | Slindon Slindon Slindon is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, nestling in woodlands on the southern edge of the South Downs. Slindon lies approximately seven miles north-east of Chichester... 50.8667°N 0.6357°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Sir Thomas Jackson's Thomas Graham Jackson Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation... restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... of 1866 has been called "shocking", but some 11th-century work has been preserved in the nave. The church was lengthened in the 13th century, and the square font Baptismal font A baptismal font is an article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults.-Aspersion and affusion fonts:... dates from that time. A well-regarded 16th-century wooden monument (the only such effigy in Sussex) inside the church commemorates Anthony St Leger. |
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| St Richard's Church | Slindon Slindon Slindon is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, nestling in woodlands on the southern edge of the South Downs. Slindon lies approximately seven miles north-east of Chichester... 50.8680°N 0.6360°W |
Roman Catholic | Bertel Thorvaldsen Bertel Thorvaldsen Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy . Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Academy of Arts when he was eleven years old... 's miniature carving of Anthony James Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Newburgh Earl of Newburgh The title Earl of Newburgh was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1660 for James Livingston, 1st Viscount of Newburgh, along with the subsidiary titles Viscount of Kynnaird and Lord Levingston.... , a piece with "great sculptural force", is inside Charles Alban Buckler's Early English-style flint church of 1865. The area's strong Roman Catholic tradition is reflected in the presence of a secret chapel at Slindon House, recorded from 1695. |
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| St Mary Magdalene's Church | South Bersted South Bersted South Bersted is a village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It forms part of the built up area of Bognor Regis and lies on the A259 and A29 roads one mile north of the town centre.... 50.7940°N 0.6751°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... of 1879–81 by Ewan Christian Ewan Christian Ewan Christian was a British architect. He is most notable for the restoration of Carlisle Cathedral, the alterations to Christ Church, Spitalfields in 1866, and the extension to the National Gallery that created the National Portrait Gallery. He was architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners... gives the rubble and ashlar Ashlar Ashlar is prepared stone work of any type of stone. Masonry using such stones laid in parallel courses is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. Ashlar blocks are rectangular cuboid blocks that are masonry sculpted to have square edges... church a solid appearance, as does the massively buttress Buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall... ed 13th-century tower. This is topped with a shingle Roof shingle Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat rectangular shapes laid in rows from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive higher row overlapping the joints in the row below... -clad broach spire Broach spire A broach spire is a type of spire, a tall pyramidal or conical structure usually on the top of a tower or a turret. A broach spire starts on a square base and is carried up to a tapering octagonal spire by means of triangular faces.... . The five-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... has lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s. The east window has colourful stained glass Stained glass The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings... of 1880 by Hardman & Co. Hardman & Co. Hardman & Co., otherwise John Hardman Trading Co., Ltd., founded 1838, began manufacturing stained glass in 1844 and became one of the world's leading manufacturers of stained glass and ecclesiastical fittings... |
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| St Mary's Church St Mary's Church, Walberton St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Walberton in the district of Arun, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex... |
Walberton Walberton Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of and has a population... 50.8430°N 0.6216°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
The original Saxon building incorporated stones salvaged from Roman sites. It was associated with Boxgrove Priory Boxgrove Priory Boxgrove Priory, in the village of Boxgrove in Sussex, was founded in about 1066 by Robert de Haye, who in 1105 bestowed the church of St. Mary of Boxgrove upon the Benedictine Abbey of Lessay. In about 1126 upon the marriage of Robert's daughter Cecily, to Roger St... until the 16th century, but declined thereafter and was restored in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Richard Creed, a Victorian architect responsible for some of this work, has been criticised for his "clumsy" handling. There is a Saxon coffin inside. |
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| Walberton Baptist Church | Walberton Walberton Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of and has a population... 50.8460°N 0.6230°W |
Baptist | A Baptist congregation developed in the 1840s, with help from Worthing's church, and put up a chapel in 1847. This was replaced by the "imposing" building of 1886 which stands on the south side of the High Street (now opposite a 1950s church hall). It is partly tile-hung and features flint and polychrome brickwork. In 1973, the congregation became aligned to the FIEC Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches is a network of over 500 independent, evangelical churches mainly in the United Kingdom that preach an evangelical faith... . The capacity is 100. |
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| Westergate Methodist Church | Westergate Aldingbourne Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester.... 50.8404°N 0.6688°W |
Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
Methodists in this part of Aldingbourne parish first worshipped in a former barn in 1851. This building served them until 1962, but it was converted into a house and a new church was built nearby in 1962. | |||
| All Saints Church | Wick Wick, West Sussex Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles north of the town centre.... 50.8205°N 0.5435°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
W.C. Street's chapel of ease Chapel of ease A chapel of ease is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.... to Lyminster parish church dates from 1882. The roof has a bellcot Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... and there is a polygonal apse Apse In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome... . The brick, flint and stone church, an Early English-style building with a capacity of 200, gained its own parish in 1973, and is now within a joint benefice with Littlehampton's two Anglican churches. |
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| Arun Community Church (Wickbourne Centre) | Wick Wick, West Sussex Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles north of the town centre.... 50.8142°N 0.5478°W |
Evangelical Evangelicalism Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:... |
Littlehampton's first Evangelical church, Argyll Hall, founded Wickbourne Chapel in the late 1960s. It was built in 1969 and served the Wick housing estate until 2004, when it was demolished and replaced by the Wickbourne Centre—a multi-use community and worship building funded by the Government's Sure Start programme. The WIRE project The WIRE project The Wire Project was a charitable organisation charity based in England-Aims:The project's stated aim was to work alongside existing community projects and develop new initiatives for the children, young people and families of Wick, Littlehampton, West Sussex.Achieved through:* Practical,... has been based at the church since 1996. |
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| St Mary's Church | Yapton Yapton Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is three miles to the north-west of Bognor Regis at the intersection of the B2132 and B2233 roads... 50.8231°N 0.6076°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This church dates almost entirely from the period 1180 to 1220, including the tower which has been repeatedly shored up and buttress Buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall... ed because of structural problems. The nave aisles are so low that the roofs are only 5 feet (1.5 m) above the ground outside, and dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... windows were inserted in the 17th century. A medieval timber-framed Timber framing Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns... porch stands on the west side. |
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| Yapton Evangelical Free Church | Yapton Yapton Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is three miles to the north-west of Bognor Regis at the intersection of the B2132 and B2233 roads... 50.8209°N 0.6156°W |
Evangelical Evangelicalism Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:... |
There was a Congregational chapel at this location in 1848. The present building—home to an Evangelical congregation since 1973—dates from 1861. It has a flint and stone exterior, arched windows, bargeboard Bargeboard Bargeboard is a board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give them strength and to mask, hide and protect the otherwise exposed end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof to which they were attached... s and an adjoining gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... d hall forming an L-shaped wing. |
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| Church of Christ Angmering Baptist Church The present Angmering Baptist Church and its predecessor building, known as Church of Christ, are respectively the current and former Baptist places of worship in Angmering, a village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Baptist worship in the area can be traced back to 1846, when the... |
Angmering Angmering Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away... 50.8272°N 0.4860°W |
Baptist | This "strangely towered" 150-capacity chapel was founded with the name Church of Christ in 1846 by George Paul of Worthing Worthing Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester... , from where its first minister also came. By the 1960s it was in poor condition and was sold for conversion into two houses in about 1970, when the new Baptist church opened nearby. The old chapel, a flint and brick building, has lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s, and a four-storey corner tower rises to a pyramidal cap. |
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| St Wilfrid's Church | Angmering Angmering Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away... 50.8307°N 0.4859°W |
Roman Catholic | Opened as a mission chapel by priests at Arundel, this served Angmering from 1872 until 1995. The congregation transferred to East Preston's Roman Catholic church after that, and the red-brick and stone Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... building was incorporated into the adjacent St Wilfrid's School. It was not officially registered for worship until 1884. |
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| Arun Street Baptist Chapel | Arundel Arundel Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to... 50.8534°N 0.5573°W |
Baptist | Baptists in Arundel moved from an 1846 chapel in Park Place to a new building on Arun Street in 1868. The two-storey Vernacular Vernacular architecture Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs and circumstances. Vernacular architecture tends to evolve over time to reflect the environmental, cultural and historical context in which it... chapel was built on the site of a former Quaker Religious Society of Friends The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences... meeting house. Served from Worthing for most of its existence, it closed in 1967 and was converted into a shop, then a house. |
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| Trinity Congregational Church Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel Trinity Congregational Church, later known as Union Chapel, is a former place of worship for Congregationalists and Independent Christians in Arundel, an ancient town in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Protestant Nonconformism has always been strong in the town, and the chapel's... |
Arundel Arundel Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to... 50.8539°N 0.5555°W |
Congregational | The Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival architecture Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture... exterior of this flint-built chapel, described as "not good" by Ian Nairn Ian Nairn Ian Nairn was a British architectural critic and topographer.He had no formal architecture qualifications; he was a mathematics graduate and a Royal Air Force pilot... , dates from 1836–38, but the originally Independent Independent (religion) In English church history, Independents advocated local congregational control of religious and church matters, without any wider geographical hierarchy, either ecclesiastical or political... congregation developed in 1780. Stone and red brick dressings are also in evidence. Its architect Robert Abraham also designed the town hall. The building became an antiques market in the 1980s. |
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| Bailiffscourt Chapel Bailiffscourt Chapel Bailiffscourt Chapel is a deconsecrated chapel in the grounds of Bailiffscourt Hotel, a luxury hotel near the hamlet of Atherington in West Sussex, England. Originally associated with the Norman Abbey of Séez, it was founded in the 11th century and rebuilt in its present simple Gothic form in the... |
Atherington Clymping Clymping is a civil parish, located around the hamlet of Climping in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is located three miles west of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road... 50.7990°N 0.5793°W |
Pre-Reformation Protestant Reformation The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led... |
Used intermittently for public services, including as late as 1952, this simple 13th-century Gothic building—a single-cell chapel with lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s—stands in the grounds of the luxury Bailiffscourt Hotel. It was originally the private chapel of the manor house Manor house A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes... , owned by the bailiff Bailiff A bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed... of the Abbey of Séez Sées Sées is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.It lies on the Orne River from its source and north-by-northeast of Alençon.-Name:... in Normandy Normandy Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:... . |
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| Barnham Methodist Church | Barnham Barnham, West Sussex Barnham is a large village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, about five miles north of Bognor Regis. The civil parish had a population of 1,270 persons according to the 1991 census, although the adjacent area of 'West Barnham' adds a further 3,107 to the total... 50.8302°N 0.6373°W |
Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
Now in commercial use, this arched-windowed brick and stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... chapel was still in use until the early 21st century by Methodists whose origins lay in a congregation based in Eastergate in the 1920s. The building was completed in 1931 and seated more than 100 people. It was latterly served from Littlehampton. |
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| St Philip Howard's Chapel | Barnham Barnham, West Sussex Barnham is a large village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, about five miles north of Bognor Regis. The civil parish had a population of 1,270 persons according to the 1991 census, although the adjacent area of 'West Barnham' adds a further 3,107 to the total... 50.8338°N 0.6449°W |
Roman Catholic | A wooden church stood near the railway goods yard from 1938 until the 1970s. A new chapel at the nearby Roman Catholic secondary school was opened for public worship in 1970; it was part of the parish of Slindon, but closed to the public in the early 21st century. | |||
| Bilsham Chapel Bilsham Chapel Bilsham Chapel is a deconsecrated former chapel in the hamlet of Bilsham in West Sussex, England. Founded in the 13th century as a chapel of ease to the parish church of Yapton, the nearest village, the small flint building fell out of religious use around the time of the Reformation... |
Bilsham Yapton Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is three miles to the north-west of Bognor Regis at the intersection of the B2132 and B2233 roads... 50.8101°N 0.6215°W |
Pre-Reformation Protestant Reformation The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led... |
This single-cell sandstone and flint chapel of ease Chapel of ease A chapel of ease is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.... to Yapton parish church dates from the 13th and 14th centuries: the oldest fabric is from the 1260s. It was already disused by 1551 and became cottages, then a shed, then (in 1972) a single house. Various restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... s were carried out in the 19th century. |
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| Church of Christ Scientist | Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the... 50.7859°N 0.6741°W |
Christian Science Christian Science Christian Science is a system of thought and practice derived from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Bible. It is practiced by members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist as well as some others who are nonmembers. Its central texts are the Bible and the Christian Science textbook,... |
This building is now the Regis Recital Hall, but it was built for Christian Scientists in 1957 on a World War II bomb site. The building has a red Somerset tile façade and a polychrome tiled area outside. It opened on 23 June 1957, replacing an earlier (1930) place of worship. | |||
| Nepcote Chapel | Findon Findon, West Sussex Findon is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, four miles north of Worthing. The parish has an area of 16.41 km² and a population of 1848 persons .... 50.8628°N 0.4014°W |
Baptist | The part of Findon village known as Nepcote was served by a small chapel, used in around 1865 by Plymouth Brethren Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is... and later by Baptists, which was then replaced in 1881 by the present building of flint and brick to the design of Thomas G. Graham. Worthing Baptist Church administered it, and the congregation moved to a newly built chapel in Findon Valley Findon Valley Findon Valley is a neighbourhood of the Borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. It lies on the A24 road 2.9 miles north of the town centre.... in 1940. Evangelicals used it later for a time. |
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| St Edmund's Church | Houghton Houghton, West Sussex Houghton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the River Arun five kilometres to the north of Arundel... 50.8957°N 0.5487°W |
Roman Catholic | This red-brick building was opened in 1879 and licensed for marriages in 1894. It was served from Arundel and funded by the Dukes of Norfolk Duke of Norfolk The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, the Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the title refers to the... . The architectural style has been described as "school chapel". The building is now in commercial use. |
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| Siloam Methodist Chapel | Lagness Pagham Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,... 50.7931°N 0.7125°W |
Methodist Methodism Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother... |
On the road from Bognor Regis to Chichester Chichester Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings... , this small red-brick chapel was opened in 1840. It has now been incorporated into a bed and breakfast Bed and breakfast A bed and breakfast is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast, but usually does not offer other meals. Since the 1980s, the meaning of the term has also extended to include accommodations that are also known as "self-catering" establishments... establishment called The Old Chapel Forge. |
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| Lidsey Mission Hall | Lidsey, Aldingbourne Aldingbourne Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester.... 50.8207°N 0.6689°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
A mission room was built in this outlying part of Aldingbourne parish to serve Anglican worshippers. Recorded in the Kelly's Directory Kelly's Directory Kelly's Directory was a trade directory in the United Kingdom that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities. In effect, it was a Victorian version of today's... of 1909, it later passed into commercial use. Planning permission Planning permission Planning permission or planning consent is the permission required in the United Kingdom in order to be allowed to build on land, or change the use of land or buildings. Within the UK the occupier of any land or building will need title to that land or building , but will also need "planning... for a house on the site was refused in 2000. |
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| North Bersted Congregational Chapel | North Bersted Bersted Bersted is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,443. It is made up mainly of two villages, North Bersted and Shripney.... 50.7975°N 0.6913°W |
Congregational | This Congregational chapel opened in 1936 in the Bognor Regis suburb of North Bersted. In 1986 it passed into the ownership of the Servite Priory, a Roman Catholic monastic order resident in the town, but is now in residential use. | |||
| Chapel at Barton Manor | Nyetimber Pagham Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,... 50.7776°N 0.7333°W |
Pre-Reformation Protestant Reformation The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led... |
Barton Manor, now a luxury residential complex, is based around an ancient former manor house Manor house A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes... with its own 13th-century chapel. This flint building, now re-roofed but with original lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s, was apparently used as a place of worship by parishioners in the Nyetimber area of Pagham in the Middle Ages; the parish church lies 3/4 mi away. |
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| St Mary Magdalene's Church St Mary Magdalene's Church, Tortington St Mary Magdalene's Church is the former Anglican parish church of the hamlet of Tortington in the district of Arun, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Founded in the 12th century to serve a priory and villagers in the riverside location, it has... |
Tortington Tortington Tortington is a small village in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the Arundel to Ford road southwest of Arundel. It had an Augustinian priory, Tortington Priory, but little evidence of this remains. The village's former parish church, St Mary Magdalene's Church, was... 50.8357°N 0.5769°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This church, declared redundant Redundant church A redundant church is a church building that is no longer required for regular public worship. The phrase is particularly used to refer to former Anglican buildings in the United Kingdom, but may refer to any disused church building around the world... in 1978, originally served the adjacent priory. A remarkable set of carvings, some depicting "boggle-eyed monsters", surround the doorway and the chancel arch. The building has mid 12th-century origins. The roof has a white wooden bell-turret Bell-Cot A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote, is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells, supported on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches which have no towers. It often holds the Sanctus bell rung at the Consecration.... . |
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| Walberton Baptist Chapel | Walberton Walberton Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of and has a population... 50.8450°N 0.6203°W |
Baptist | A Baptist congregation developed in the village in the 1840s and worshipped in this small building from 1847 until the new, larger Baptist Church was built nearby in 1886. The structure is now a garage, but it served as a Sunday school Sunday school Sunday school is the generic name for many different types of religious education pursued on Sundays by various denominations.-England:The first Sunday school may have been opened in 1751 in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham. Another early start was made by Hannah Ball, a native of High Wycombe in... for part of the 20th century. |
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| St Barnabas Church | Warningcamp Warningcamp Warningcamp is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located to the north-east of Arundel, on the east bank of the River Arun. The civil parish covers an area of and has a population of 161 persons .... 50.8484°N 0.5267°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Warningcamp School was licensed for religious services in 1863, and a chancel Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building... was added in 1890 by George Truefitt. The dedication to St Barnabas was recorded from 1904. The building was used solely as a church from 1923 until 1967, but it closed on 12 November that year and was sold for residential conversion in 1968. |
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| St Michael and All Angels Church | West Meads, Aldwick Aldwick Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire... 50.7891°N 0.7012°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
This church was founded on the West Meads housing estate in 1968, but it fell out of use in 2006. A planning application for its demolition was refused in March 2011. At that time, the building was owned by Christ for the Nations, an Evangelical Evangelicalism Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:... group. |
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| Westergate Mission Hall | Westergate Aldingbourne Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester.... 50.8425°N 0.6676°W |
Anglican Church of England The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St... |
Apparently built in about October 1905 as a mission room for the parish church Parish church A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.... at Aldingbourne, this building later had various social functions (such as a Scout hut) until planning permission Planning permission Planning permission or planning consent is the permission required in the United Kingdom in order to be allowed to build on land, or change the use of land or buildings. Within the UK the occupier of any land or building will need title to that land or building , but will also need "planning... was granted in 2007 for its conversion into a house. |
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See also
- Grade I listed buildings in West Sussex
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Southeast England
- List of demolished places of worship in West Sussex