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St Mary, Chidham

St Mary, Chidham

Chidham

West Sussex

MATERIALS: rubble stone and flint with ashlar stone dressing, topped by clay-tile pitched roofs.

Architectural Features

the central is in the position of a C13 opening, and the flanking windows are C19 openings.

There is also the C14 north aisle with a mono-pitch roof.

INTERIOR: at the west end, in the location of the infilled west door, is a section of exposed C15 stone panelling which may have been reused from a chest tomb.

In front of the south porch is the font consisting of a round bowl on a chamfered square base.

At the east end of the aisle coloured glass windows were installed in 2010.

On the south wall of the chancel is a piscina with a C13 frame with the remains of a trefoil arch

Adjacent is the aumbry, a low-level recess topped by a segmental arch, also around C13.

A C13 Purbeck marble tombstone has been recorded in the floor below the aumbry, and a stone altar slab set in the floor under the communion table (both concealed).

There are stone wall monuments on either side of the chancel to Henry Bickley and George Meggott.

The church's C19 stained glass has been attributed to Clayton and Bell.

The timber pews, altar rails, panelling, pulpit and tile floor are also C19.