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with destroyed anker-holds. We know from the will of Bishop Richard 

 de la Wych, in 1253, wherein he leaves bequests to certain recluses, that, 

 besides the Hardham anker, there were others at Pagham, Houghton, Stopham, 

 and the church of the Blessed Mary of Westout (now St. Anne's) Lewes. 

 Rustington church probably had a cell on the north side of the chancel. 



Crypts beneath churches are rarely found in Sussex. The cathedral, 

 owing to its low-lying site, possesses none. A portion of the crypt under the 

 high altar at Battle Abbey church, with three straight-sided apses, is still to 

 be seen. There is a small crypt (probably a charnel) partly sunk below 

 the east end of the south aisle at Bosham, the crown of its vault forming a 

 raised chapel in the aisle over. This is of mid-thirteenth-century date. 

 Heathfield and Winchelsea 

 have crypts of the fourteenth, 

 not now accessible, and there 

 is one of the fifteenth cen- 

 tury below the quire of 

 St. Clement's Hastings, also 

 closed. 



Examples of vaulting in 

 monastic and parish churches 

 occur as follow : Twelfth 

 century (early) : Boxgrove, 

 over aisles of eastern bays of 

 nave. Twelfth century (late) : 

 Icklesham, tower, Bishop- 

 stone, sanctuary (by the same 

 builders), Burpham, chancel 

 (evidently modelled upon the 

 Lady chapel vault of Bishop 

 Hilary at the cathedral), 



Sompting (chapels opening 

 off transepts), Aldingbourne, 

 St. Anne's Lewes, and West- 

 meston all three with a 

 vaulted chapel at end of 

 south aisle, c. 1190.' Thirteenth century (early): New Shoreham, quire 

 and aisles, c . 1 200 with many interesting peculiarities in detail ; Boxgrove 

 (closely resembling contemporary vaulting in the cathedral), quire and 

 aisles n ote the use of dog-tooth moulding and the fine carved bosses ; 

 Broadwater, with chamfered ribs, and singular hook '-corbels to the 

 shafts, resembling those at New Shoreham ; Kingston-by-Sea, central 

 tower, with peculiar treatment of ribs, c. 1220. Rye, chantry adjoining 

 south transept. Fifteenth century : Hastings, towers of St. Clement's and 

 All Saints' churches, elaborate examples of later lierne vaulting, with many 

 ribs and curiously carved corbels. Besides these, there are the crypts above 

 referred to, a vaulted apartment of early thirteenth-century date at Shulbred 

 Priory, and remains of vaulted monastic buildings at Bayham, Robertsbridge, 

 Lewes, Tortington, Easebourne, &c. 



1 West Hampnett, near Aldingbourne, ha a similar chapel of the same date. 



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