PARHAM, a parish in the hundred of WEST-EASWRITH,
rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 6 miles
(N. E. by N.) from Arundel, containing 77 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at
£10, and in the patronage of Lord de la Zouche. The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, is in the later style of
English architecture: it was repaired and the tower
added in 1800, and has an ancient leaden font in good
preservation. Here was formerly a cell to the abbey of
Glastonbury.