The 'smallest church' tag is perhaps a bit of a cheat, since this is only the chancel of a decayed medieval building, the foundations of which lie half-buried in the turf to the west. 

 

The surviving portion of the church is fifteen feet square, seats eighteen people and is still used for regular worship.

 

It contains a font, lectern and altar housed within flint walls broken by a tiled roof, with a weather-board belfry capped by a branch spire. ( The smallest church in use in England is Brenilham Church, Foxley, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, which measures twelve feet square).

 

 

Access

By a footpath off the minor road from Wilmington to Litlington

 

 

 

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