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Selsey Abbey

7th-century church buildings in EnglandAnglo-Saxon cathedralsBishops of SelseyBuildings and structures in West SussexChristian monasteries established in the 7th century
Churches completed in 681Diocese of ChichesterHistory of SussexHistory of West SussexMonasteries in West SussexSelseyUse British English from November 2011
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Selsey Abbey was founded by St Wilfrid in AD 681 on land donated at Selsey by the local Anglo-Saxon ruler, King Æðelwealh of Sussex, Sussex's first Christian king. The Kingdom of Sussex was the last area of Anglo-Saxon England to be evangelised. The abbey became the seat of the Sussex bishopric, until it was moved to Chichester, after 1075 when the Council of London decreed that sees should be centred in cities not in villages. The location of the abbey was probably at the site of, what became, the old parish church at Church Norton just north of modern-day Selsey.

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Rectory Lane, Chichester

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