St John'S Priory

This is a late 13th-century chapel, originally part of a preceptory or commandery of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, founded in the 12th century. Following suppression of the preceptory in 1541, the buildings passed to Arundel College, which was itself suppressed in 1546. The surviving structure was later adapted into a farmhouse, known as Fairplace Farmhouse, and altered around 1830. The building is constructed of stone rubble, flints, and red brick, with some timber framing visible at the rear. Four stone buttresses project from the front elevation. It has a Horsham slab roof. Casement windows are set in deep reveals. A pointed stone doorway is topped with an archivolt and dripstone. The building is two storeys high with four windows. The east wall has flanking buttresses and a blocked pointed window. A two-window-bay extension in red brick, dating from about 1830, is situated to the west.