Architectural Features
Behind in the south aisle is an early C13 round-headed doorcase
the south aisle has three C16 style windows, replacements following the 1939 fire.
The north aisle has a C16 doorway with a renewed head and renewed three light window in C16 style.
The chancel south side has three C13 lancets, the east end has three C13 taller lancets and the north wall of the chancel has two C13 lancets.
INTERIOR: The south west tower contains the original C16 half-winder staircase with solid treads of triangular blocks and three bells, one mid C16, one of 1594 and one recast in 1858.
The nave has north and south arcades of four bays but the westernmost south bay was walled up when the tower was built in the C16.
The octagonal stone font with wooden font cover is by Frederick Etchells and the pews and pulpit (the latter incorporating some older panels) are of the same date.
The north or Trinity chapel is a C19 rebuilding of one which existed as early as 1542.
In the centre of the north wall is a c1779 monument to John Page, MP for Chichester, and his two wives.
Against the south wall is another large monument to Katherine Page of circa 1795, a Classical style marble monument with a coved top surmounted by an urn and oval inscription panel flanked with drapery.
The roof of three bays, possibly C16, has original pegged rafters, staggered purlins and two chamfered tie beams.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: * Despite the replacement of the nave roof and some internal woodwork after a 1939 fire this is a substantially intact early C13 parish church with early C16 tower and C19 chapel. * Interior features include medieval arcade and chancel arches, stoup and piscina, a rare surviving C16 solid tread half-winder staircase to the tower and good quality C18 and C19 monuments.