Norman bishop, who was appointed in 1070, and "Le Neve supposes he continued the title of Bishop of Selsey till 1082, when, the removal being completed, he assumed the designation of Bishop of Chichester:" (which is given to him in D. B.) This Stigand must not be confounded with another, who was promoted from the bishopric of Winchester to Canterbury by K. William I. The cathedral was commenced by Ranulph or Ralph, the first bishop of that name from 1091 to 1099; was partially burned A.D. 1114, and entirely so A.D. 1186. The rebuilding was begun by Bishop Seffrid the second A.D. 1199, and nearly completed at his death in 1204. In the twelfth century there were eight parishes within the walls, and two without; of which four have been consolidated with two others. Of one union of three parishes the church is the north transept of the cathedral. "The original church, dedicated to St. Peter, and called sub castro, was taken down soon after 1229; and as it was then stated that it had two parishioners only, they were transferred to the newly-founded hospital of St. Mary; soon after which time the church, now called St. Peter the Less, was established." St. Bartholomew or St. Sepulchre was destroyed during the siege of Chichester by Sir W. Waller in 1642, but the cemetery is still used. St. Peter juxta Golden Hall and St. Mary in Foro have been desecrated; but subsequent to the compilation of (Val. Eccl.).—Hospitals: St. Mary, dating from 1229, 13th of Henry III; reformed A.D. 1528; refounded by Queen Elizabeth A.D. 1562: St. James and St. Mary Magdalen for lepers. From deeds still extant it appears, that the cross was finished about A.D. 1500, (Dallaway.) The hospital of St. James and St. Mary Magdalen for lepers, without the eastern gate of the city, is as old as the time of K. Richard I or K. John. That of St. Mary was founded temp. K. Henry II by Dean William. (Monast. VI, 776.) The monastery of St. Peter existed here before the Conquest. (Ib. VI, 1624.)
Among the chapter-houses on the southern side of the cathedral are piers and arches, the remains of a large Norman church, and supposed to be those of the church attached to the ancient monastery of St. Peter. In a window belonging to one of the adjoining houses are the arms of Weston, which were borne by William Weston, Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England A.D. 1541. The (Nonæ Roll) notices only the church of St. Pancras in the suburbs.—The Guildhall was the chapel of the Grey Friars monastery. In another part of the city Dominican or Black
