It is 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of Chichesteron the spur of the South Downs and on the B2141 road.

[3] The parish is mentioned in the Taxatio records of Pope Nicholas IV (1291) and in the Novae return (1341).

The plan of the Church of St Mary, approached through a farmyard, is simple but unusual in the chancel having an apsidal, or semi-circular termination.

The elaborate Norman south doorway in Caen stone suggests a date of the middle of the 12th century.

The Norman sandstone font was provided an octagonal stem base in the 14th century, and parts of the ancient flint walls were repaired in places with 18th-century brickwork.