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Originating from the 12th century, the church lies at the centre of this Sussex Weald village, is open daily and is alongside a traditional village pub!

The church began with the faith of one man, Alderman Manton.

A Saxon church built on the Roman site of Viroconium.

The church started near the railway station, when Rugby was an expanding railway engineering town.

For centuries this was an estate church to a succession of families; the Burnabys, Clerkes, and then the Henley/Eden family who successively owned the Watford Estate and Manor here.

This oldest parts of this church date from the 13th century, when a simple rectangular building with a tower was erected on the hillside.

A 13th century church, home to many outstanding features including an 18th century singers gallery, a listed pipe organ and 14th century stone effigies of the Astley family, considered to be some of the finest of their kind in the region.