St Nicholas, Bramber
St Nicholas, Bramber
The Parish Church of St Nicholas stands on The Street beside Bramber Castle, a Grade I Norman church founded about 1073 by William de Braose for a college of secular canons.
- Location
- Bramber, Sussex
- Country
- England
- County
- Sussex
- City / town
- Bramber
- Address
- The Street, Bramber, Sussex, BN44 3WE
- Postcode
- BN44 3WE
- Built
- c.1073; tower rebuilt c.1785; restored c.1840 and 1871; west vestry 1931
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Nicholas
- Diocese
- Chichester
- Parish
- Beeding and Bramber with Botolphs
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman
- Materials
- Flint rubble and freestone
- Grid reference
- TQ 186 106
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
- Website
- http://www.3bsparish.org/
Overview
De Braose established the college next to his new castle on the Adur; it was dissolved by about 1096 and the church became parochial by the mid-thirteenth century. The plan was originally cruciform; the transepts were later lost and the east tower now stands over the former crossing, which serves as the chancel. The listing records a largely Norman fabric of flint rubble and freestone, a hollow eighteenth-century tower and a twentieth-century west vestry. Rare early Norman sculpture survives on the chancel-arch capitals. The church was listed Grade I on 15 March 1955 (NHLE 1353947). It is in the Diocese of Chichester, in the united parish of Beeding and Bramber with Botolphs.