page_title: Selsey Abbey
hierarchical_section_title: Selsey Abbey
caption_attribution_description: English: English: 13th Century Chichester cathedral Seal with (possibly) a picture of Selsey Cathedral. The style of building on this seal suggests it was copied from a much earlier Anglo-Saxon seal. The seal is held by the British Museum. Museum number 1923,1015.1
context_page_description: 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, after a synod in 1075, to Chichester. 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.
context_section_description: 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, after a synod in 1075,  to Chichester. 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.
caption: Capitular seal with picture of Selsey Cathedral?[a][2]
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