ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



New Shoreham is a deeply cut ' Templar's ' Cross. They take the form of 

 crosses in black flints at Boxgrove, Broadwater, Seaford, and Westham, and of 

 tiles at East Preston ; they were also painted upon the walls inside at Ford 

 (? pre-Conquest), Amberley (twelfth century), Climping, Slindon, Poling, 

 Warminghurst, Trotton, Pevensey, &c. 



Squints occur in the churches of Appledram, Arundel, Barlavington, 

 West Chiltington, Chithurst, Framfield, Heathfield, Isfield, Jevington, 

 Kirdford, Lyminster, Mayfield, Mountfield, Peasmarsh, Penhurst, Rustington, 

 Selham, &c. At Rodmell and St. Thomas-at-Cliffe Lewes, they have a sort 

 of mid-wall shaft in the centre, of twelfth-century date. 



Altar recesses are found at Worth (south transept), Albourne (high 

 altar), Clayton, Coombes, Friston (high altar), Ford, Arlington, Bolney, and 

 Mid Lavant (destroyed), Patcham, Sompting, Tangmere, Thakeham, West- 

 meston, Wisborough Green, and Wivelsfield (side chapel), of the twelfth and 

 thirteenth centuries. Most of these take the form of round-arched recesses 

 on the western face of the chancel arch wall. At Rustington two such 

 recesses with pointed arches (c. 1210) appear on the eastern face; possibly 

 they were originally pierced. (See illustration p. 374.) 



The original stone altar in the Fitzalan chancel at Arundel with its 

 ponderous slab of Purbeck marble has never been destroyed. Altar slabs, 

 marked with the five crosses, are preserved in Chichester Cathedral Lady 

 chapel, Aldingbourne, Broadwater, Chithurst, Mundham, Oving, Salehurst, 

 Selmeston, South Stoke, Tangmere, Treyford, Waldron, Westham, and a few 

 other churches. A small chantry-altar slab is built into a buttress quoin at 

 Yapton. There are a number of Elizabethan and later altar-tables, as e.g. at 

 Rye (in mahogany). 



Aumbries remain in Chichester Cathedral and nearly all churches 

 (e.g. Little Horsted, West Grinstead, Rogate, Burpham, and Climping) ; 

 and not a few stone recesses, sometimes rebated for doors, usually in the 

 east wall. Tabernacles, or what may be presumed to be such, occur at 

 Sompting (? pre-Conquest) ; Binsted (twelfth century, oak-lined, with 

 triangular head, in south wall), Stoughton (east wall), Sullington (triangular 

 head). Wivelsfield, Rogate, Sompting, Climping, and Burpham have twin 

 recesses of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, rectangular and rebated for 

 doors, all in the east wall, behind the altar. At Eastbourne there is a 

 canopied recess over the high altar of late fourteenth-century date. 



Of piscinae, which are extremely numerous, the following are valuable 

 examples in order of date : ? Pre-Conquest, Rumboldswyke of the pillar 

 type, resembling one of like date in Brading church, Isle of Wight. 

 Pillar piscinae, of eleventh and twelfth century dates, Bosham (north aisle), 

 Woolbeding, Icklesham, Up Waltham, Pevensey and Hastings castles, East 

 Hoathly (very richly ornamented), and Walberton (traces of). Niche- 

 piscinae of the twelfth century remain at Sompting (2), Binsted, Alding- 

 bourne, Ford, Rogate, Lyminster (with scallop-shell basin), Bosham, Yapton, 

 Burpham, Litlington, and Guestling ; thirteenth century^ Albourne (east 

 wall), Bayham Abbey, Bosham (3, one double), Boxgrove (4), Amberley, 

 Ferring, Cocking, Tarring Neville, Battle, Stoughton (very rich work), 

 Climping, Pulborough, Thakeham, Barnham, and Fittleworth (round trefoil 

 heads, very much alike), Tangmere, East Blatchington, Rustington, Portslade 



