List of places of worship in Adur

The rural northern part of the district has one ancient church that is still in use, and another former chapel that served a now deserted medieval village.

These include an anchorite's cell (where a hermit was walled up for life),[4] a rare series of wall paintings,[5] an example of the Tapsel gate design found only in Sussex,[6] and a "Rhenish helm" four-gabled tower cap that is unique in England.

[7][8][9] Adur, which has an area of 4,180 hectares (10,300 acres),[10] is a coastal district between the South Downs and the English Channel.

[11] The River Adur, from which the district takes its name, flows from north to south and cuts the area in two.

In the Saxon and Norman eras, villages developed on both sides: Southwick, Kingston Buci and Shoreham in the east; Lancing and Sompting in the west.

[13] Housing spread on to the lower slopes of the Downs, but little extended north of the Old Shoreham Road (built as the main east–west route through the area in the 18th century).

Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism had a lower following in the district than in the country overall: in 2021, 6.73% of people in England were Muslim, 1.81% were Hindu, 0.92% were Sikh, 0.48% were Jewish and 0.46% were Buddhist.

[24] St Theresa of Lisieux Church in Southwick is in the combined parish of Southwick with Portslade and West Blatchington, which also serves the Portslade, Hangleton and West Blatchington areas of Brighton and Hove.