St Peter
Preston Park, Sussex
In a small, wooded churchyard adjoining Preston Manor, this simple 13th century flint church makes a pleasing medieval contrast with its suburban surroundings.
The low aisles are windowless, so the interior is lit by the clerestory and west and east windows, the latter set high to allow space for a reredos, with big niches either side. The west window is broader but the outer lancets on either side are blank. There is a big south west porch and a Lady chapel at the east end of the south aisle. A tower some 150 feet high with a saddle back roof was intended to extend across the whole church between nave and chancel.
