St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

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 mi to the northeast, on the "wild shoreline" of Pagham Harbour. This land is considered the most likely site of Cymenshore, the place where Ælle of Sussex—the first King of the South Saxons—came ashore in 477. upon which he founded a monastery in 681. This later became a cathedral, After the Norman conquest the Council…

Originally the church had an aisled nave with a four-bay arcade (three bays dating from the 1180s and another added about 50 years later), a porch and a 16th-century tower with diagonal buttresses. This was never finished and stood only 8 ft high. The remaining chancel of the church is a simple Early English Gothic building with original lancet windows in the north and south walls. The three-light east window dates from the 15th century and is Perpendicular Gothic in style. Traces of the former chancel arch and the responds of the arcades are still visible on the west wall. The fact that the church is "divided into two halves and standing in two different places" has led to it being…

St Wilfrid's Chapel was listed as a Grade I listed building on 5 June 1958. The Diocese of Chichester declared the chapel redundant on 1 November 1990. As of 2006, services were still held irregularly at the church, in particular on the feast day of Saint Wilfrid (12 October).