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Bartholomew, &c., destroyed) ; Mayfield, Midhurst (B.V. Mary and Child, 

 thirteenth century) ; Newick, Nuthurst (a 'Doom,' St. Christopher and 

 other saints, &c., destroyed) ; Patcham (a fine ' Doom,' and other paintings 

 of twelfth- and thirteenth-century dates) ; Pevensey, Plumpton (an early twelfth- 

 century * Doom' and scriptural subjects, in tiers destroyed) ; Poling, Ports- 

 lade (a ' Doom,' Adoration of the Magi, &c., destroyed) ; Poynings ; Preston 

 (Martyrdom of St. Thomas of Canterbury, St. Katherine and St. Margaret, a 

 bishop, St. Michael weighing souls, Incredulity of St. Thomas, * Noli Me tan- 

 gere,' the Last Supper, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, &c., mostly destroyed 

 by fire in 1906 illustrated in Arcbaeologia^ xxiii, 109, and Suss. Arch, Coll. 

 xliii, 242) ; Rogate (St. Christopher and masonry patterns, destroyed) ; Rother- 

 field (a * Doom,' Incredulity of St. Thomas, the Annunciation, St. Christopher, 

 patterns on columns, &c. u ) ; Rustington, Shipley, Shulbred Priory (the Na- 

 tivity, &c., sixteenth and seventeenth centuries); Sidlesham, Singleton, Slaugham, 

 Slindon (consecration crosses, beautiful masonry patterns, late twelfth century, 

 mostly destroyed) ; Stedham (St. George, the Three Marys, a ' Doom,' the 

 Man of Sorrows, St. Christopher, and our Lady as the Queen of Saints, 

 thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, all destroyed u ) ; Steyning (figure subjects 

 of late twelfth-century date on columns of north arcade, one the Anointing 

 of Christ's feet) ; Sutton (decoration of early fourteenth-century roof and 

 chancel) ; West Tarring, Thakeham, Treyford (scroll-work, diaper patterns, 

 six-winged seraphim, &c., early thirteenth century) ; Trotton (the Seven 

 Deadly Sins and Seven Acts of Mercy, beneath figures of Moses and our Lord 

 as the Divine Judge, &c. c. 1390; also the legends of St. Hubert and 

 St. George) ; Udimore (figures and scroll-work, &c., thirteenth and fourteenth 

 centuries) ; Warminghurst (a consecration cross, c. 1280); Westbourne, 

 Westfield (St. George, destroyed) ; Westmeston (Scenes from the Passion, 

 the Adoration of the Lamb, the history of St. George, the Signs of the Zodiac, 

 &c., early twelfth century, all destroyed 15 ); Wisborough Green (the Seven 

 Deadly Sins, fourteenth or fifteenth century, destroyed, St. James of Compo- 

 stella and a crucifixion 16 ) ; Wiston, Withyham (a ' Doom,' &c., destroyed) ; 

 West Wittering, Wivelsfield (thirteenth-century lozenge pattern); Worth 

 (patterns on windows, fourteenth century); Yapton, red colouring on 

 columns, &c. 



The fonts of the county are for the most part plain and of ordinary 

 character, all periods being represented. There is a large group of early fonts, 

 of tub, pudding-basin, or cup shape, nearly all in a hard freshwater Chara lime- 

 stone, of Eocene age, a stone no longer to be dug or quarried in Sussex, 

 presumed to have been brought originally by sea from the Isle of Wight or 

 Purbeck, and almost always found in West Sussex churches of pre-Conquest 

 date and foundation. Those at Yapton and Walberton have shallow incised 

 ornamentations, the Yapton font having arrow-heads and long sword- 

 shaped crosses. The following is a list, in order of date : Bepton, Berwick, 

 Bignor, Burton, Chidham, Cocking, Didling, Farnhurst, Ford, Graffham, 

 Hardham, Littlehampton, Lodsworth, Up Marden, North Mundham, Poling, 

 Selham, Tangmere, Trotton, Up Waltham, Walberton, Waldron, West 

 Wittering, Woolbeding, Yapton. 



u Suss. Arch. ColL xl, a 1 8. Ibid, iv, i. 



u Ibid, xvi, i. M Ibid, xxii, 134. 



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