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family and his wife, 1380, &c. ; Ore : civilian and wife, 1400 ; Herstmon- 

 ceux : Sir William Fienes, 1402 ; Amberley : John de Wantele, 1424, 

 in a tabard ; Arundel : several priests, fifteenth century ; Poling : a priest's 

 half effigy, c. 1460 ; Wiston : Sir John de Braose, 1426 ; Ardingly : Richard 

 Wakehurst and wife, 1457 ; Cowfold : Thomas Nelond, prior of Lewes, 

 1433 a particularly fine brass, having a canopy with clustered pinnacles, 

 flying buttresses, and imagery; Buxted : John de Lewes, 1330, and Britell 

 Avenell, priest, 1408, in the head of a floriated cross ; Horsham : a priest 

 in a cope, 1411; Warbleton : Dean Prestwick, 1436; Pulborough, 1423, 

 1452 (good canopies) ; Broadwater : a good brass of a priest, 1432, and a 

 Calvary cross, 1445. 



4. External tomb recesses occur (in the south wall of the chancel) at 

 Warbleton and Sutton. Internal wall-tombs, generally with canopies, some- 

 times containing a coffin-slab or an effigy, and ranging in date from the end 

 of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century, are found at Ardingly, 

 Arlington, Bepton, Berwick, Bosham (2), Boxgrove, Chichester Cathedral, 

 and Greyfriars' church, Cocking, Westdean (East Sussex), Denton, East- 

 bourne, Little Horsted, Lancing, St. Anne's Lewes. 



Effigies on detached altar-tombs, or tombs alone (sometimes with 

 brasses), of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, remain at 

 Ardingly, Arundel, Burton, Chichester Cathedral, Easebourne, Horsham, 

 Herstmonceux, Hurstpierpoint, Southover church Lewes, Mundham, Single- 

 ton, Slindon, Slinfold, Sullington, Thakeham, Trotton, and Wiston. The 

 most noteworthy are the tombs of an unknown lady and Bishop Stratford at 

 Chichester, the sumptuous Fitzalan monuments at Chichester and Arundel, 

 and the effigies at Slinfold (a lady), Slindon (a knight, in oak), Southover 

 (Sir John de Braose, 1232), Horsham (Thomas Lord Braose, 1396), Hurst- 

 pierpoint (early mailed figures), and Herstmonceux (late plate armour). 



5. A later group of canopied altar-tombs possesses features almost 

 peculiar to Sussex. Beginning with a series of Sussex marble canopied wall- 

 tombs as at Chichester Cathedral (Bishop Sherborn, &c.), Singleton, Burton, 

 Horsham (Lord Hoo, 1453), Thakeham, and Trotton (3), it concludes with 

 a remarkable series, in which the use of Caen stone and mixed Gothic and 

 Renaissance detail are the chief features, combined with a wealth of delicate 

 figure-sculpture and much fanciful ornamentation. These tombs are found 

 at Arundel (Fitzalan tombs), Boxgrove (Lord de la Warr's sumptuous chantry, 

 c. 1530), Broadwater (de la Warr monuments, c. 1525 and c. 1554), 

 Clapham (Shelley tomb), Kingston-by-Sea, North Mundham (fragments), 

 Petworth (1527), Racton, Rustington (Dawtrey family ?), Selmeston, Selsey 

 (1537), Slaugham (Coverts), Sompting (Burre tomb), Warminghurst (Shelleys, 

 1554), Wiston (Shirleys, 1540) and West Wittering (two Earnley tombs, 

 with sculpture of the Annunciation, Resurrection, and patron saints, c. 1545). 

 An altar-tomb of the Shelley family now used as the altar at Preston 

 has much in common with these. It is covered with late panelled work 

 and minute heraldic shields. 



6. Later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Renaissance 

 design are found in many churches ; the following may be taken as 

 representative: Battle (Sir Anthony Browne and wife, 1548), Chiddingly 

 (Sir John Jefferay), Ditchling (Poole monument, 1580)., Easebourne 



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