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Boxgrove is a village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in the Chichester District of the English county of West Sussex, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north east of the city of Chichester. The village is just south of the A285 road which follows the line of the Roman road Stane Street. The Anglican parish has an area of 1,169 hectares (2,890 ...
Since the Dissolution of the Monasteries, "Boxgrove Priory" has served as the Parish Church of Boxgrove. The interior of the Priory is a fine example of Norman (Romanesque) and Early English (Gothic) architecture. Until its dissolution in 1536, Boxgrove Priory was a monastic institution with a double church.
From an entry in the Domesday Book we know that Boxgrove had the status of a parish and that a church existed here before the Norman Conquest. All traces of this have been obliterated by the Priory, which is the daughter house of the Abbey of Lessay in Normandy and the "grand-daughter" of the great Benedictine Abbey of Bec Helouin.
The church at Boxgrove functioned as both a parish church – where local people worshipped – and a monastic church. Monks and parishioners were strictly segregated, with the parish using the nave at the west end and the monks the eastern parts.
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870. BOXGROVE, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict in Westhampnett district, Sussex. The village stands 2 miles NNE of Drayton r. station, and 3½ NE by E of Chichester. The parish includes also the hamlets of Crocker-Hill and East Hampnett, the tythings of Halnaker and Strellington, and part of the ...
BOXGROVE. The parish, containing 3,677 acres, consists of a main block about 2 miles from north to south and the same from east to west, with a projection southwards for about a mile on the east. On the west a detached portion containing Goodwood House and part of the Park lay within Westhampnett, into which parish it has now been absorbed for ...
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The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaize is a Grade I listed building in Boxgrove, West Sussex, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
