---
title: "St Mary, Yapton"
description: "Located in Yapton, Sussex. Built Nave and tower C12 (c.1180–1220); chancel C13. Diocese of Chichester. Grade I. Norman and Early English style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Sussex","Yapton","Grade I","Norman","Early English"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-mary-yapton"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:09:06.436Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:34:22.800Z"
location: "Yapton, Sussex"
country: "England"
county: "Sussex"
town: "Yapton"
address: "Church Road, Yapton, Sussex, BN18 0EE"
postcode: "BN18 0EE"
built: "Nave and tower C12 (c.1180–1220); chancel C13"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Mary"]
diocese: "Chichester"
grade: "I"
style: "Norman and Early English"
materials: "Flint and stone; tower with red brick buttresses and hipped shingled roof; tiled nave roofs to low eaves"
website: "http://www.cyfchurches.org.uk/"
openingHours: "Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church."
parish: "Yapton St Mary"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1237782"
gridReference: "SU 981 035"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Mary, Yapton

St Mary’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Road, Yapton, West Sussex, in the Diocese of Chichester: a lightly restored late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century church whose nave roof comes down to within a metre of the ground.

## Overview

Historic England lists the Parish Church of St Mary (1237782, Grade I, 5 June 1958). The list describes chancel, nave with aisles, and a tower to the south-west of the nave. Nave and tower are twelfth-century; the nave has lean-to roofs with later dormer windows; the tower has red brick buttresses and a hipped shingled roof; the chancel is thirteenth-century. The listing calls it a “very attractive unrestored medieval church.”

Sussex Parish Churches dates the fabric to about 1180–1220 and notes possible earlier work. The mid-twelfth-century font is carved with shallow arcading, a long cross in each arch and a band of chevrons. The chancel has paired lancets and a lowside to the south; the broad chancel arch has two chamfered orders on fluted corbels. A fourteenth-century west porch is of massive timbers infilled with flint. W. H. Godfrey undertook twentieth-century repairs. The east window glass is by Lavers and Westlake, 1909. There are no regular advertised opening hours through the Yapton, Ford and Climping benefice.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1237782](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1237782)
- [CYF Churches](http://www.cyfchurches.org.uk/)
- [Sussex Parish Churches: Yapton St Mary](https://sussexparishchurches.org/church/yapton-st-mary/)