England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Wymering St Peter & St Paul

The Parish

The Church

St Peter & St Paul's church stands on the northern side of Medina Road midway between the two busy dual-carriageway roads that mark the northern and southwestern edges of modern day Wymering, this area is shown on early maps as the site of the original detached village of Wymering. This is a church which has been resolutely restored in Victorian times such that its medieval origins, and early ones at that, have been externally masked making the church appear relatively modern. This work happened in the first two years of the 1860s so what resulted would not be recognisable to the participants of these marriages. The core of the church within is early with the 4-bay arcades the earliest fabric Pevsner notes, these arcades are Norman Romanesque in style and from the 12th century with the rounded piers of that style shown well in the earlier northern arcade. The slightly later southern arcade draws upon the Early English Gothic being 13th century in style. Whilst the remainder of the church is undoubtedly medieval in origin, the chancel in particular showing some stone work of that period, such is the work of the Victorian restorers that little left is fully and convincingly dateable. The church's centrepiece is its shingle-spired bell-turret which is definitely of this Victorian period but nevertheless attractive. There is ample street parking along Medina Road making for a relaxed visit. The churchyard, fronted by a banded flint & tile wall is slightly raised from street level with a couple of steps rising to the main door, the addition of its brick-built modern extension to the north is a bit of an eyesore but is readily avoidable from most of the favoured southern aspects.