Find a church

A beautiful Arts & Crafts church built in 1931.

This ancient parish church is a small pantiled structure overlooking a large green to the south and west.

The church of St Andrew is situated in the centre of the village on a hill top opposite the Swan Inn, it was consecrated in 630 and still retains many Saxon and later Norman elements.

King Alfred is recorded as having bequeathed Lyminster to his nephew in 901, it was the site of a Benedictine nunnery, and the flint church we see today has Saxon origins as the present walls go back to about 1040.

What you see today is the second chapel on this site, in 1696 the congregation built ‘The Great Meeting House’ which served the congregation for 100 years.

Loddon is a large village on the River Chet, and its church is a handsome building in a big churchyard just off the High Street.

The present church at South Bersted dates back to 1405, when it was consecrated and dedicated by the Bishop Reade of Chichester before a large congregation.