St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church

St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church existed as a chapel in the 13th century. It is situated near East Street in central Chichester, Historically, the church was the property of the Dean of Chichester, Additions to the church were made in the 14th, 15th and 19th centuries. The church used to house a portrait of William Cawley, though this been moved to Chichester Cathedral. In 1878, the parish of All Saints-in-the-Pallant—a former church which was also built in the 13th-century— The church was deconsecrated in the 1950s, by which time it was disused and empty. In 1976, the church opened as the Chichester Centre of Arts, which was later renamed to the Oxmarket Centre of Arts. St…

The church, a small building which "in scale [is] exactly like churches in nearby villages", is built of stone and flint. The outside walls are rendered apart from at the east end, where the quoins are of stone dressed with ashlar, and the west end which is supported by substantial buttresses. The stonework which has been obscured by render includes some reused fragments of herringbone pattern work of the Norman era and rubble taken from the demolished Roman walls around the city centre. The windows, all lancets, vary in date from 13th- to 19th-century; the three-light east window dates from the latter. The doorway at the west end is 14th-century. On the roof is a weatherboarded bell-cot…