A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



from the body of the church by a coeval iron grate and a brick wall. The 

 arcade between the quire and its aisle is also partially blocked by a stone wall 

 with battlemented cornice. A similar arrangement obtained in connexion 

 with the chapels of the north aisle of the nave at Chichester Cathedral. 



0f stone porches the following are typical examples : Pre-Conquest : 

 Bishopstone. Twelfth century : Lancing. Thirteenth century (early) : Chichester 

 Cathedral (north and south), Patcham, Walberton. Thirteenth century (late) : 

 Chichester Cathedral (west), Edburton, Horsham, Litlington, Portslade, 

 Salehurst (west), South Stoke, and Wisborough Green. Fourteenth century 

 (early] : Bosham, Brightling, Eastbourne. Fourteenth century (late] : Alfriston, 

 Arundel, Battle, Lindfield, Lamberhurst, Poynings, Ticehurst, Wadhurst. 

 Fifteenth century : Buxted, All Saints' Hastings, Mayfield, Playden, Singleton, 

 Steyning, and Winchelsea (early sixteenth). 



Nine or ten of the later examples have, or had, parvise chambers over 

 the porch. Ashburnham, Elsted, and Trotton are of seventeenth-century 

 date, as is also the brick porch at Ford. Twineham, Thakeham, and Stough- 

 ton have brick porches of the early part of the sixteenth century. 



The pre-Conquest porch at Bishopstone is a rare feature. It has a 

 coeval sundial, with the maker's name inscribed thereon, and probably had a 

 priest's chamber over. One or two of the others are vaulted, the Arundel 

 and South Stoke porches having transverse stone ribs, with stone slabs laid 

 across, recalling a very early form of stone roofing, of which a kindred 

 example is found in the Great Hall at Mayfield. 



Porches of mixed timber and stone construction are numerous, and often 

 highly picturesque. Of some twenty or more the following are the best 

 examples : Thirteenth century : Barnham, West Chiltington, Rustington 

 (North). Fourteenth century : Arlington, Arundel, Etchingham, West Grin- 

 stead, Mayfield, Penhurst, Rustington, Shipley, Sompting, Yapton. Fifteenth 

 century: Ifield, Lyminster, Newick, Salehurst. Sixteenth century : Bury, Coates, 

 Thakeham. Seventeenth century : Fittleworth. Lurgashall has a unique 

 feature in an early seventeenth-century narthex of timber, extending along 

 the low south wall of the church and abutting against the tower at the east. 

 This is said to have been built to provide a place of rest and shelter for the 

 farmers who had to come long distances to church in inclement weather. 



There are not many ancient sacristies or vestries ; probably in most 

 churches the tower was used for these purposes, or a space curtained off in 

 nave or chancel. Examples occur, besides the cathedral, at the following 

 churches. They are of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century dates : Arundel, 

 Bosham, Boxgrove, Eastbourne, Etchingham, South Harting, St. Clement's 

 Hastings, Horsham, and Winchelsea. With the exception of Eastbourne (at 

 the east end), all are on the north of the quire. There have also been sacris- 

 ties opening off the sanctuary at Appledram and Pulborough (both early 

 thirteenth century), the first on the north and the second on the south side, 

 at the extreme east end. 



Anchorites' cells must at one time have been fairly numerous usually 

 as an annex to the north or south wall of the chancel. Traces of their 

 squints and other features remain at Hardham and Kingston-by-Sea. A 

 squint on the north side of the nave of Battle church, and another on the 

 east side of the north transept at Boxgrove, may have had some connexion 



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