CHICHESTER, •ltichfcs-ter (AS. (issa»ceas ter, Lat. Cissc• castrum. camp of Cissa). A muni cipal borough and episcopal city in Sussex. Eng land, miles east-northeast of Portsmouth (Map: England, F G). It is well built and has wide streets. The ancient city walls are not' utilized as a public promenade. The cathedral, erected in the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries, is remarkalile for its unique features of doultic aisles and detached campanile. Other notable public buildings are the guildhall, formerly the church of a Franciscan monastery: the Church of Saint Olave, one of the oldest in Chichester; and Saint Alary's Hospital, which was founded as a nunnery in the Twelfth Century. The town has a theological college, and there is an ancient gram mar school founded in 1497. The chief trade is in agricultural products and live stock. There are malting, !mewing, and tanning establishments, and manufactures of wooden-ware. The harbor,
two miles to the southwest of the city, is a deep inlet of the English Channel, about eight square miles in area, and is connected with Chichester by a canal. Chichester was the Roman Rcynum. It was taken and partially destroyed, in 491, by the South Saxons. It was soon afterwards re built by Cissa. their King. It„was for some time the capital of the Kingdom of Sussex. It was in corporated in 1213. During the Civil War it was taken in succession by Royalists and Parliamen tarians. Population, in 1901, 12,200. Consult: dills, "Chichester Cathedral," in Irehcrological Journal, Vo1. XX. (London, 1864). and "The City Walls," in id., Vol. XLII. (London, 1886) ; flay, History of Chichester (Chichester, 1804).