Churches in West SussexWest Sussex, England

Norman and Gothic cathedral with a free-standing bell tower, a spire seen from the sea, and modern art from Chagall to John Piper.

A tiny downland church ringed by farmland, keeping vivid Lewes Group wall paintings across its nave and chancel walls.

A Saxon church beside the harbour, pictured on the Bayeux Tapestry; tradition places a royal child's grave in the chancel.

A vast Gothic Revival chapel rising above the Adur, among the tallest in England, dominating this stretch of the Downs.

The 'shepherds' church', standing alone below the Downs without electricity, lit by candles and set with rough medieval benches.

A part-Saxon church above the Adur valley, keeping fragments of medieval wall painting in its aisle-less nave.

Its walls carry one of England's earliest and most complete Romanesque wall-painting cycles, by the Lewes Group around 1100.

Saxon herringbone masonry survives, and the chancel arch carries strikingly carved capitals mixing early and Viking-influenced motifs.

Sweeping twelfth-century Lewes Group wall paintings, including a Last Judgement, spread across the nave above the chancel arch.

Its Saxon tower carries a four-sided 'Rhenish helm' spire, the only one of its type surviving in Britain.

Set in an Arun-loop hamlet and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust, keeping medieval wall-painting fragments.

Extensive twelfth- to fourteenth-century wall paintings line the interior, set beside the village green.

A remote, barely-restored downland church reached by a farm track, its worn floor and plain interior widely loved.

One of England's most complete Saxon churches, cruciform in plan with a soaring chancel arch and pilaster strips.

A Saxon-founded cruciform church remodelled by the Normans, with richly carved arches and a weathered timber interior.