In this book, which includes many illustrations not previously published, local historian Alan Green explores not only the history and archetecture of the Five Little Churches, but also the lives of their people and parishes. This book is not just church history - it is a portrait of everyday life in Chichester over thre and a half centuries.
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If ever a place was over-endowed with churches it is Chichester: in pre-Reforamtion times there were no fewer than nine parish churches, three chapels, two friaries, and a cathedral, all within the walls of a city less than half a mile in diameter!
After the Reformation the Cathedral and six of the parish churches survived, and five of these, known as the Little Churches on account of the diminutive sizes of both their buildings and parsihes, managed to last into the 20th Century despite attempts by Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century and the Dean of Chichester in the 18th to reduce their numbers.
In this book, which includes many illustrations not previously published, local historian Alan Green explores not only the history and archetecture of the Five Little Churches, but also the lives of their people and parishes.
This book is not just church history - it is a portrait of everyday life in Chichester over thre and a half centuries.
