St Mary and St Peter's Church, Wilmington

St Mary and St Peter's Church, Wilmington
West end of the church in 2022 showing the wooden bellcote
St Mary and St Peter's Church, Wilmington Location in East Sussex
50°49′03″N 0°11′26″E / 50.8175°N 0.1906°E / 50.8175; 0.1906
OS grid reference	TQ 544,043
Location	Wilmington Street, Wilmington, East Sussex BN26 5SL
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Central Anglican
Website	St Mary and St Peter, Wilmington
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	30 August 1966
Architect(s)	Paley and Austin (restoration)
Architectural type	Church
Style	Norman, Gothic, Gothic Revival
Administration
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Chichester
Archdeaconry	Lewes and Hastings
Deanery	Lewes and Seaford
Parish	Wilmington
Clergy
Rector	Revd Peter Blee
Assistant priest(s)	Revd Andrew Stamp
Laity
Churchwarden(s)	John Marshall, Julie Little, Clive Jones
Parish administrator	Dr Martin Chilvers

St Mary and St Peter's Church is in the village of Wilmington, East Sussex, England. It is an active Anglican parish church on the deanery of Lewes and Seaford, the archdeaconry of Lewes and Hastings, and the diocese of Chichester.^[1] Founded in the late 11th century to serve villagers in a rural area at the foot of the South Downs, it also functioned as a priory church for the monks from the adjacent Wilmington Priory, to which it was physically connected. The building has "benefited from sympathetic restoration"^[2] over the centuries—including a series of works by prominent architects Paley and Austin in the Victorian era, and internal renovation after a fire in the early 21st century. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.^[3]