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East Marden church stands in a group of houses at a crossroads. The houses and church huddle round an ancient well with a thatched roof, the only source of water until as late as 1924. Built in the C13, a long flint rectangle, the church has no division between nave and chancel and the join is only marked outside by shallow buttresses either side.
Once described as “the most modest and least ecclesiastical looking church in the world', St Peter’s stands on a spur of the South Downs.
It consists of an undivided nave and chancel dating from the 12th/13th century, a porch of the 17th century and a vestry added in 1906. It is built of flint rubble with ashlar dressings, has some modern brickwork and is roofed with tiles.
A Millennium Tapestry hangs on the north wall of the nave.