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St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton — church in Chichester, UK.

St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

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St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton is a historic church in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1250. Heritage designation: Grade I listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Chichester, UK". Coordinates: 50.7549°, -0.7652°.

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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", 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.

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Coordinates
50.7549, -0.7652
County
West Sussex
District
Chichester
Parish
Selsey
Postcode
PO20 9DT
Parliamentary constituency
Chichester
Established
1250

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Frequently asked questions

Where is St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton?
St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton is in South East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 50.7549°, -0.7652°.
When was St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton built?
St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton dates to 1250 — the Norman & medieval period.
Is St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton a listed building?
St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton carries the heritage designation "Grade I listed building" — a protective status under UK heritage law.