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round heads of the same date are Aldingbourne and the Bishop's Palace 

 Chapel, Chichester. The south door of East Dean Church, near Chichester, 

 with pointed head, and French-looking capitals, is possibly by the same hand 

 as the last. 



Good early thirteenth-century doorways are found at Chichester 

 Cathedral, West Thorney, North Mundham, Oving, Lodsworth, Willing- 

 don (finely moulded), Preston, and Battle; late thirteenth century, at Trotton 

 and Amberley (south, very richly carved and moulded) ; fourteenth century, 

 at Tangmere and Aldingbourne (west) ; late fourteenth, fifteenth, and early 

 sixteenth centuries, at Alfriston, Poynings, Arundel, Mayfield, Hastings 

 (both churches), Wivelsfield, Singleton, Iden, and Coates. 



Low side windows are exceptionally numerous ; 92 or more examples 



have been noted, ranging in date 

 between c. 1225 and c. 1525. 

 The most interesting occur at 

 Climping, Rustington, Apple- 

 dram, West Thorney, West Wit- 

 tering, West Hampnett, Edbur- 

 ton, Up Waltham, Botolphs, 

 Trotton, Ardingly, Arlington, 

 Wilmington, Isfield, Alfriston, 

 Coombes, St. Clement's Hastings, 

 and Twineham, the last-named 

 a brick opening. 11 Some have 

 squints adjoining, which com- 

 municate with a chapel in the 

 neighbouring aisle, as at Apple- 

 dram and Isfield ; others have sill 

 niches, as at Coombes and Hast- 

 ings, and nearly all are rebated 

 to hold a shutter. The iron grate 

 remains at Trotton. Many 

 churches have two or even three 

 such openings, e.g. Climping 

 and Clapham. Dial markings 

 and pilgrims' signs occur on or 

 near some of them, as at West Thorney, West Hampnett, Rustington, Ford, 

 Yapton, Edburton, and Litlington. Eastbourne Church shows many incised 

 outlines of fish on its pillars, and New Shoreham has a variety of such graffiti. 

 A very perfect pre-Conquest sundial is preserved over the south porch 

 at Bishopstone, inscribed with the maker's name, * EADRIC, within a Greek 

 fret border. A sundial at Bexhill is dated 1599. 



Consecration crosses are found incised on the tower and priest's door 

 (with IHC) at Climping, a nave quoin at East Blatchington, the pre-Conquest 

 chancel arch, Lyminster, and on many door-jambs, such as at St. Olave's 

 Chichester, East Wittering, Aldingbourne, Chichester Cathedral (south door), 

 East Preston, Ford, and Amberley. One on a pillar of the north arcade at 



1 The greater part of these openings have been described and illustrated in Suss. Arch. Coll. xli and xlii, 

 but since the publication of these papers the list has been considerably added to. 



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COOMBES CHURCH, Low SIDE WINDOW IN SOUTH WALL 



