The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1958. A Medieval Church.
The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- winter-clay-sparrow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1958
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, High Street, Bosham
- OS grid reference
- SU 804 038
- Coordinates
- 50.82891, -0.85935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building located on the north side of Bosham High Street. It features a chancel with a north vestry, a nave with aisles, a south porch, and a west tower topped with a broached shingle spire. The church is constructed from Mixon stone, Top Chalk, sarsen stone, and Quarr stone rubble, with a tiled roof.
This church is one of the most renowned medieval churches in Sussex and may be situated on the site of a Roman basilica. The main part of the chancel is of Saxon origin, but it was extended to the east in the late 12th century, with the vestry added around 1200. The tower is also of Saxon construction, except for the top storey, which was added in the 15th century. The nave dates from the 13th century, while the south porch is from the 14th century.
Notable interior features include a double trefoil-headed piscina and an octagonal font from around 1200, which has four corner shafts. There is a recess in the south aisle with a 15th-century flat cinquefoil-headed arch adorned with carved heads at the ends of the cusps. An early 14th-century effigy can be found on the west side of the chancel. It is said that one of King Canute's daughters is buried here.
Local climate
The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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