St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton
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St Wilfrid's Chapel, also known as St Wilfrid's Church and originally as St Peter's Church, is a former Anglican church at Church Norton, a rural location near the village of Selsey in West Sussex, England. In its original, larger form, the church served as Selsey's parish church from the 13th century until the mid 1860s; when half of it was dismantled, moved to the centre of the village and rebuilt along with modern additions. Only the chancel of the old church survived in its harbourside location of "sequestered leafiness",[1] resembling a cemetery chapel in the middle of its graveyard. It was rededicated to St Wilfrid—7th-century founder of a now vanished cathedral at Selsey—and served as a chapel of ease until the Diocese of Chichester declared it redundant in 1990. Since then it has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust charity. The tiny chapel, which may occupy the site of an ancient monastery built by St Wilfrid,[2] is protected as a Grade I Listed building.
St Wilfrid's Chapel | |
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50.7549°N 0.7652°W / 50.7549; -0.7652 | |
Location | Rectory Lane, Church Norton, Selsey, West Sussex PO20 9DT |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Anglican |
History | |
Former name(s) | St Peter's Church |
Status | Church |
Founded | 13th century |
Dedication | Saint Wilfrid |
Dedicated | 1917 (rededicated to St Wilfrid) |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Redundant |
Heritage designation | Grade I |
Designated | 5 June 1958 |