St Wilfrid's Church Info
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Wheelchair-accessible car park
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Wheelchair-accessible entrance
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The chancel of this medieval church still remains here. The nave was completely dismantled and rebuilt a few miles away in Selsey as St Peters church to serve the developing town of Selsey....St Peters can also be visited complete with its fine Norman pillars and font...and a fine Victorian chancel.
A lovely little chapel c13th century. It was once a much larger church with just the chancel left remaining. There is a small car park with the possibility of being full on good weather summer days. There is a Local nature Reserve nearby with lovely views and plenty of opportunities for bird watching. Church Norton has a lot of history surrounding it and is well worth a visit!
Lovely small chapel set in the middle of a cemetery. No longer in regular use, but in use for funerals.
There are some lovely stained glass windows and memorial 'tableau' set in one wall (I, at least, was unable to read the inscriptions).
On a different tack, on my way back to my car, I suddenly realised that I was looking at the remains of a mott & bailey castle right by the side of the main gate to the cemetery!
Didn't realize the area was part of a larger ancient settlement. Interesting.
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", 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, is protected as a Grade I Listed building. St Wilfrid's Chapel was listed as a Grade I listed building on 5 June 1958. The parish of Selsey is in the far southwestern corner of Sussex and was once an island: the English Channel lies to the east and south, and Pagham Harbour forms the northern boundary and originally had a connection to the sea on the west side as well. Two settlements developed in the parish: the main village (Selsey) and a hamlet called Church Norton (or Norton) about 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the northeast, on the "wild shoreline" of Pagham Harbour.
Very quaint church with history. If you walk to the back of the churchyard over the style there’s a lovely walk.
Beautiful Church and Graveyard venue near Selsey, West Sussex.
It is always so beautifully quiet at St Wilfrid’s - with the sound of the nearby sea creating a calm, quiet venue for those who have passed to rest.
Beautiful chapel lovely graveyard around it as well
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| Monday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
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| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
| Thursday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
| Friday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
| Saturday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
| Sunday | 10:00 AM - 01:00 AM |
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