The additions were consecrated by Bishop Wilberforce in 1867, leaving little of the original 18th century church being left untouched.

He opportunely met Bishop Wilberforce when the latter was seized by an illness in Italy, and the two travelled homeward together.

Ashwell and Wilberforce's Bishop Wilberforce, i. 65-82, 103-4, 150, 160, 263-4, 317, 401, ii.

It was consecrated in 1869 by Bishop Wilberforce of Oxford and the campanile was completed in 1872.

Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous."

His longest consecutive work was the first volume of the 'Life of Bishop Wilberforce' (1880).

Bishop Wilberforce of Chichester died in September 1907, so the return to Chichester had to be delayed until 1908.

He then entered the Cuddesdon Theological College, founded two years earlier by Bishop Wilberforce, to train as a priest.

"The Ghost of Bishop Wilberforce"

Nevertheless Peers demolished the old church, and in 1855 the new one was completed and Bishop Wilberforce consecrated it.