Medieval and Manuscripts

List of places of worship in Arun

The district of Arun, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex, has 91 current and former places of worship. There are 71 active churches, chapels and meeting rooms and one mosque serving the dense urban development on the English Channel coast and the mostly rural hinterland of ancient towns and villages; a further 21 former places of worship still stand but are no longer in religious use. The 2021 United Kingdom census found that the majority of the district's population was Christian. Many churches, serving both the Church of England—the country's Established Church—and a wide variety of other Christian denominations, are located in the main towns of Littlehampton and Bognor Regis—Victorian seaside resorts which form the focal points of the nearly continuous urban area around the River Arun estuary. Surrounding villages, and their ancient and modern churches, have been absorbed by the 20th-century growth of these towns. Further north, the important hilltop town of Arundel has a Roman Catholic cathedral and a long established Church of England parish church, and was a centre of Nonconformist worship. Muslims in the area are served by a mosque and Islamic community centre in Bognor Regis. English Heritage has awarded listed status to nearly 40 current and former church buildings in Arun. A building is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, is responsible for this; English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of the department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of "special interest". As of February 2001, there were 23 Grade I-listed buildings, 24 with Grade II* status and 913 Grade II-listed buildings in Arun.

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See also

• ▸St John the Evangelist's Church, Ashton Hayes
• ▸Frozen section procedure
• ▸Christ Church, Chester

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