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and vertical string-course the imagery in one of these reredoses has been 

 restored, so that the original effect can be readily appreciated. 



As to pavements, we find plain slabs of ' winkle ' stone or Sussex marble, 

 occasionally in square pieces, used for the general floor covering, as at Chiches- 

 ter Cathedral, Arundel, Trotton, Boxgrove, New Shoreham, and Winchelsea. 

 A great many churches retained until their ' restoration ' a good deal of plain 

 red or buff tiling (e.g. Climping), but of this very little is now to be seen. Of 

 encaustic tiles we have excellent examples in a large number of churches and 

 monastic houses, particularly in the following : Alfriston, Appledram (very 

 good thirteenth century), Battle Abbey (all dates), Bayham Abbey (thirteenth 

 and fourteenth), Binsted (thirteenth century, including a remarkable glazed 

 and incised tile), Boxgrove (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries), Chichester 

 Cathedral (several dates), St. Mary's Hospital (thirteenth and fourteenth 

 centuries), St. Olave's Chichester (thirteenth century), Ditchling (thirteenth 

 century), Dureford Abbey (thirteenth century), Etchinghafn (late fourteenth), 

 Horsted Keynes (various dates), Lewes Priory (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), 

 Michelham Priory (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries), Poynings (late four- 

 teenth), Robertsbridge Abbey (thirteenth), Rustington (thirteenth century, 

 by the same artist as those at Dureford), Rye (various dates), and Winchelsea 

 (fourteenth century). There is no doubt that excavation would reveal many 

 more tile pavements on the sites of monastic and other churches. 



Considering how much glass was made at Chiddingfold, on the Sussex 

 border, during the Middle Ages, it is surprising how little ancient glazing has 

 survived. The following is almost an exhaustive list : Alfriston (figure of 

 St. Alphege, &c., late fourteenth century), Ardingly (early fourteenth cen- 

 tury), Arundel (late fourteenth century), Battle (fifteenth and early sixteenth 

 centuries, very fine), Boxgrove, Brede, Brightling (good early fourteenth cen- 

 tury, figures and canopies), Bury, Chalvington (figure of St. Thomas of 

 Canterbury, and inscription recording the donor east and north windows, 

 c. 1300) ; Coombes (flowered quarries, fifteenth century) ; Denton, East- 

 bourne (cinquecento] ; Eastergate (fine heraldic and quarry glass, c. 1360) ; 

 Etchingham (fourteenth century, late) ; Firle, Fletching, West Grinstead, 

 Harting, Hooe (figures of Edward III and queen), Isfield, Linch (German 

 or Flemish sixteenth century an importation) ; Newark (Agnus Dei, thir- 

 teenth century) ; Penhurst (fifteenth century), Poling, Poynings (The Annun- 

 ciation, good late fourteenth century), Ringmer (Crucifixion, &c., fifteenth 

 century) ; Rotherfield, Rustington (cinquecento roundels) ; Shermanbury, 

 Singleton, Stopham (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, heraldic, figures and 

 portraits) ; Sutton (very good early fourteenth century) ; Ticehurst (four- 

 teenth and fifteenth centuries) ; Warbleton, Warding, Westham (very good 

 fifteenth century, figures, &c.) ; Withyham, Wiston (heraldic) ; Woolbeding 

 (sixteenth century, from Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire) ; Worth (heraldic) ; 

 Yapton (thirteenth century, grisaille fragments). 



The wall-paintings of Sussex, recorded or still existing, are numerous 

 and of great importance. The following is a summary condensed from the lists 

 that have been printed in vols. xliii, xliv, &c., of the Sussex Archaeological 

 Society's Collections : 



Aldingbourne (fragments, eleventh to sixteenth centuries) ; Alfriston 

 (a 'Doom,' whitened over, &c.) ; Amberley (consecration crosses, figure 

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