Loxwood church was built around 1410 as a chapelry in the parish of Wisborough Green, because of the distance from the church (1 p176).  The Burrell Collection drawing (1795) shows a timber-framed aisleless nave, west porch and belfry, not unlike the old chapel at Plaistow.   In 1822 J P Henly rebuilt this in brick with round-headed windows (ICBS), but the chancel was untouched – unusually it had a transverse roof and thus north and south gables.  In 1873 Loxwood became a parish and in 1900 a church was opened on a new site, partly in order to provide a burial ground, which the old one, as a former chapel, did not have.

The new church, designed by R Plumbe (GRI) was started in 1898 and completed in 1900.  It is built of red brick with stone dressings and capitals inside - though even the moulded heads of the arches are brick.  Except for the hammerbeam roof in the nave, most detail is C14 in style, though the sloping south buttresses are definitely late C19 and the chancel arch includes that unfortunate motif, the hooked corbel.  A low tower north of the chancel has an octagonal spire behind battlements and west of this is a large porch.

Since 1978 the parish of Loxwood has been linked to that of Alfold, Surrey, to which it is close.  It is thus part of the Diocese of Guildford and is the only parish in Sussex not to be in the Diocese of Chichester. 

Fittings and monuments

Benches: (North aisle) From the old chapel, probably C15.  They have curling tops with small finials and are some of the best in the county.
Font: Carved octagonal bowl standing on marble shafts, probably of 1900.
Glass:
1.  (East window) A J Dix, 1902 (signed).
2.  (North aisle two-light window) W Morris Studios, 1946 (DSGW 1952).
2.  (North aisle, first and second windows and south nave, second window) Single figures depicting four Beatitudes by P Neave, 1982 (signed), contorted in an Expressionist manner.  The surrounds in particular effectively recall later mediaeval glass. 

Source

1. J C Buckwell: Stories of Loxwood, SAC 56 (1914) pp161-91

My thanks to Nick Wiseman for the colour photographs