About: List of former places of worship in Chichester District

In the district of Chichester, a large rural area in the English county of West Sussex, there are more than 50 former churches, chapels and other places of worship that still stand but that are no longer in religious use. Many are in the ancient city of Chichester, the district's largest centre of population: many medieval and Victorian Anglican churches were built there to serve tiny parishes (sometimes covering only a few streets) that were later combined with others, and chapels serving various Nonconformist denominations were closed after their congregations declined. Elsewhere, in the villages and scattered farming communities that characterise the rest of the district, churches and chapels were superseded by new buildings, closed due to declining attendance or shifts in population, o