List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
List Entry Number: 1353763
Location
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: West Sussex
District: Adur
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Sompting
National Park: SOUTH DOWNS
Grade: I
Date first listed: 12-Oct-1954
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 297334
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/01/2013
TQ 10 NE
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12.10.54
SOMPTING
CHURCH LANE
The Parish Church of St
Mary
I
C11 to C12. Flint with stone slate roof. Chancel, north transept with its own north
aisle, south transept with baptistry to the north of it, nave, west tower and ruins of
a chapel at the north west end of the nave. Tower entirely early Cll and the only
English example of a Saxon tower with a four-sided shingled roof or 'Rhenish helm'.
The remainder of the church is late C12 with late C15 or early C16 windows. The north
west chapel was built by the Knights Templar after 1154 as a separate chapel from the
church and was opened up into the church by the Knights Hospitallers in the C14. It
fell into ruins soon after the dissolution of that order in 1538. The church contains
some importent examples of Saxon sculpture. References Anglo Saxon Architecture H M
and J Taylor Vol II 558-62 Cambridge 1965. English Historic Carpentary pps 14-21
C A Hewett, Phillimore 1980.
Listing NGR: TQ1614705637
Selected Sources
Books and journalsHewett, C A , English Historic Carpentry, (1980), 14-21
Taylor, H M, J , , Anglo Saxon Architecture, (1965), 558-562
Map
National Grid Reference: TQ 16145 05635
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