ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



Priory, Ferring, Lyminster, East Marden, Patching, Rottingdean, Rustington, 

 Rye, West Tarring, New Shoreham (flying buttresses), Westfield, and West 

 Hampnett. The late thirteenth-century buttresses at the Franciscan church, 

 Chichester, the fourteenth-century examples at Harting, Isfield, Poynings, 

 Ripe, and Winchelsea ; and the fifteenth-century flying buttress at Rye are 

 specially noteworthy later examples. 



Parapet walls and corbel-tables of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 

 occur at Chichester Cathedral, Boxgrove, New Shoreham, &c., and of the 

 early fourteenth century at Winchelsea (traceried). Several church towers 

 retain their original parapets of early date, such as Climping and Yapton 

 (traces) twelfth century Amberley and Cuckfield, thirteenth century. 

 The latter has a fine corbel-table, a feature found also at Preston both 

 resembling the work at Chichester, a fact perhaps to be accounted for by these 

 churches being in the gift of the bishop. 



Quite a number of churches still retain ancient stone coping on their 

 gable walls, as e.g. Chichester Cathedral, Boxgrove, New Shoreham, Hor- 

 sham, Battle, Winchelsea, Rye, Willingdon, Pevensey, Icklesham, Ardingly, 

 Climping, and Linchmere. In connexion with the coping, angle turrets or 

 pinnacles of twelfth- and thirteenth-century date still remain at Rye, 

 Chichester Cathedral, Battle, and Horsham. 



Some of these copings have knee-stones of ancient date, such as at 

 Linchmere, Icklesham, Arlington, Pevensey, and Willingdon. Thirteenth- 

 and fourteenth-century gable crosses remain at Climping and Winchelsea, 

 and one of pre-Conquest date was lately discovered at Walberton. A gable 

 cross of wood is found at Lyminster, old at least in idea. 



Coming to the smaller features ; priests' doors are comparatively 

 rare ; the following are the principal examples in order of date : Coombes 

 (twelfth century), Stoughton (c. 1190), Rustington, Climping, Etching- 

 ham, Oving, West Wittering (north side), Boxgrove, Fittleworth (north 

 side), Warbleton, Peasmarsh (early thirteenth), Ardingly, Beddingham, 

 Trotton (late thirteenth), Wadhurst (fourteenth), Ringmer (fifteenth). The 

 proportion of pre-Conquest nave doors is unusually large. They occur at 

 Bolney, Friston, Lyminster, Stopham, and Woolbeding, on the south side ; 

 and at West Dean (West Sussex), Lurgashall, Selham, Old Shoreham, 

 Slaugham, Wivelsfield, and Worth, on the north side. 



The typical ' Norman ' doorway of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, 

 so commonly a richly ornamented feature in other counties, is comparatively 

 rare and usually plain in Sussex, and it is remarkable that there is not a single 

 instance of an enriched tympanum, and that the beak-head ornament only 

 occurs once on a door, at New Shoreham. The following are the best 

 examples in order of date : Ovingdean, Bramber, Patcham, East Lavant, West 

 Grinstead, Steyning, Lyminster (west), Chichester Cathedral (south tower), 

 East Wittering, Chichester (door in close), Terwick, Tortington, Bishopstone 

 (porch), Sompting (north and south), Horsham (north aisle), Rye (north 

 transept), Old Shoreham (north transept), West Chiltington (north door), 

 New Shoreham, Shipley (west doors), Climping (west door of south tower). 

 Verging on the end of the twelfth century is a group of doors of very simple 

 character and a close family likeness, all in west walls, and all with pointed 

 heads, at Cuckfield, Halnaker Chapel, Horsham, and Portslade ; others with 



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