The font, with its elaborate wooden cover, was presented in 1865 by Mr. Sperling, the old font then being buried in the  churchyard. Stand beside it, looking down the nave, and you might imagine that you are at the back of a little Norman church, with a low ceiling and  rounded arches. There might have been a few wooden benches along the sides, for the elderly, but no pews, since the building doubled as Parish Hall. The nave was the peoples’ domain, and to it would have come the 27 villeins, 31 borderers and 7 serfs mentioned in Doomsday Book, together with their families.

But the most striking change came later, when around 1500 the 11th Earl of Arundel raised the roof and the chancel arch to their present height, replacing the round Norman arches and thick piers with slender, well-proportioned pillars supporting flattened arches. He also built our present tower, making our church its present  size, although the spire was not added until 1770.

Should you look up you would see a fine pair of brass chandeliers, presented to the church in 1737, with modern pendants of hammered iron. These are still used at Christmas and Easter. At the far end of the nave is the pulpit, an 1865 Victorian replacement  for the “great pulpit with a sounding board” set up in 1630. A flat  ceiling and galleries at each side had been put up in 18th Century, and by 1790 there was also a singing gallery under the tower, where the  singers were accompanied by bass viol, cello and clarinet. All (including the singers) were removed with the Restoration of 1865. As you walk down the nave your eye is caught by a number of stained glass memorial windows. These are all 19th or 20th Century work.