List of former places of worship in Chichester District

Download coordinates as: 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.

Elsewhere, in villages and scattered farming communities in the rest of the district, churches and chapels were superseded by new buildings, closed due to declining attendance or shifts in population, or rendered unusable because of structural problems.

Roman Catholicism has always had a strong following in West Sussex,[22] and the two former churches of that denomination in the district both closed because they were replaced by larger buildings.

[24] In contrast, various Protestant Nonconformist denominations that were strong in the 19th and early 20th centuries have declined, leading to the closure and sale of many chapels – often small, simple buildings in rural locations.

The city of Chichester was a Presbyterian stronghold in the 18th century,[22] supporting the Baffin's Hall chapel (now an auction gallery) from 1721.

[27] The same happened at South Harting, where a meeting house (unusually built of clunch)[22] that was provided for Independents in 1800 was ultimately superseded by a Congregational chapel, which survives in use, in 1871.

[34] In West Sussex, just as in neighbouring counties, it proved popular to convert these buildings – sturdily built, often attractively designed and usually sold cheaply – into houses[35] (as at Somerley,[36] Sidlesham,[37] Fernhurst,[38] Walderton[39] and West Wittering)[40] or for commercial use, as evidenced by the former Bible Christian chapels in both Chichester[14] and Nutbourne.