East Lavant
village in West Sussex, England
East Lavant is one part, which along with Mid Lavant make up the village of Lavant in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies just east of the A286 road 2.2 miles (3.5 km) north of Chichester. It is in the civil parish of Lavant. East Lavant has a collection of historic cottages and a public house. The manor appears in Domesday as Loventone.
History
East Lavant (Loventone) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086) in the ancient hundred of Singleton as having 26 households: 15 villagers and 11 smallholders; with ploughing land, meadows and a mill, it had a value to the lord of the manor, Ralph, Archbishop of Canterbury, of £18.
In 1861 the principal landowner was The Duke of Richmond; the third duke had acquired it in 1775.
In 1851 the parish had a population of 421. On 29 September 1873 the parish was abolished and merged with West Lavant to form "Lavant".
St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church was founded in the 12th century.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “East Lavant” as village in West Sussex, England. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in West Sussex, England. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5328812. Authority coordinates are 50.869, -0.776. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1086, 1861, 1775 and 1851.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “East Lavant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.