St Peter, Upper Beeding
St Peter, Upper Beeding
St Peter’s is a Grade II* parish church on Church Lane, Upper Beeding, West Sussex, in the Diocese of Chichester, beside the River Adur.
- Location
- Upper Beeding, Sussex
- Country
- England
- County
- Sussex
- City / town
- Upper Beeding
- Address
- Church Lane, Upper Beeding, Sussex, BN44 3HD
- Postcode
- BN44 3HD
- Built
- 14th-century nave and tower; chancel rebuilt in the 19th century; south aisle and porch 1852
- Architect
- J Butler (1852 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Chichester
- Parish
- Beeding St Peter and Bramber St Nicholas
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Gothic
- Materials
- Rubble with re-used masonry; flint and ashlar chequerwork to the chancel
- Grid reference
- TQ 192 111
- Opening hours
- Open every day during daylight hours.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists a church of chancel, nave with south aisle and porch, and west tower. The nave and tower are fourteenth-century, with some stones preserved from the priory founded by William de Braose in 1075. The chancel was rebuilt in the nineteenth century; the south aisle and porch were added in 1852 when the church was restored.
Sussex Parish Churches records that after 1075 the parish church was shared with Sele Priory, a daughter house of Saumur, dissolved in 1459 to endow Magdalen College, Oxford. Monastic buildings north of the church were later used by Carmelite friars from Shoreham; after 1538 the church was purely parochial. The 1852 remodelling was by J. Butler, who added a gabled south aisle, arcade and traceried windows. The listing NGR is TQ 19282 11134.