A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



(first Viscount Montague, 1592), Firle (Gage tombs), Friston (Selwyns), 

 Harting (Carylls, 1586), Shipley and Warnham (Carylls, 1613, 1616), 

 Slaugham (Coverts, 1579, &c.), Isfield (Sir J. Shurley and two wives, 1631), 

 Horsham (Elizabeth Delvey, 1654), and Withyham (Sackville monument, 

 1697). 



Flaxman's masterpieces of monumental sculpture at Chichester Cathedral, 

 Eartham, Withyham, &c., form a fitting pendant to the series. 



The church bells of Sussex have been exhaustively described and illus- 

 trated in Suss. Arch. Coll. xvi, 138232. There are a large number of 

 mediaeval examples, including the oldest dated bell in England that at 

 Duncton, 1389. Others, as at Yapton, Appledram, and Ford, probably date 

 from the first half of the fourteenth century. There are fine brass can- 

 delabra of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dates at Chichester Cathedral, 

 Rogate, and Mayfield. 



The church plate of the county is now (1907) in process of being 

 catalogued, under the auspices of the Sussex Archaeological Society. With 

 vessels in actual use should be included the very valuable early examples 

 found with interments at Rusper (twelfth century, see Suss. Arch. Coll. ix, 

 203) and Chichester Cathedral preserved in the library. Chithurst church 

 has a handsome alms-dish (seventeenth century), bearing figures of Adam 

 and Eve. 



PRE-CONQUEST REMAINS 



Remains of pre-Conquest work are numerous and highly important ; some of the most 

 valuable examples of this period in England are to be found in Sussex, including the famous 

 church of Bosham, the unique tower of Sompting, and the perfect plan of Worth. It must be borne 

 in mind that this period in Sussex church architecture is one covering the greater part of four 

 centuries, from the evangelization of the South Saxons by St. Wilfrid, A.D. 68 1, to the Norman 

 Conquest of 1066, and that the missionary work began in Selsey, the south-western extremity of the 

 county ; also that almost the whole of the northern part of the county was then a dense forest, 

 with small clearings. We should therefore expect that timber churches would be the rule, except 

 near the coast, and that these would for the most part be maintained and rebuilt in the same 

 material until towards the close of the eleventh century and later, only gradually giving way to a 

 stone architecture. But allowing for all this, it is reasonable to expect that where Roman building 

 materials existed in any quantity as in the neighbourhood of Regnum (Chichester), in the 

 military stations along the Roman roads traversing the county, and in the chain of Roman villas to 

 the south of the great range of Downs they would easily be made use of in church-building. 



ARLINGTON. South and west walls of nave, 'long and tenth or eleventh-century work, and is itself of two 



short ' quoins, and double splayed window of Roman or more dates. The tower arch construction, a 



bricks. triangular-headed door, and the windows with 



ARUNDEL. Coffin-slab from the castle (now at Wai- mid-wall shafts are specially noteworthy. 



berton). BOTOLPHS. Chancel arch (cf. Sompting tower arch), 



BEXHILL. Child's coffin-slab probably as early as south wall of nave, with windows. 



the eighth century of a northern stone (? from CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. Bas-reliefs, brought from 



Whitby), covered with interlaced patterns, serpents, Selsey (two scenes in the Raising of Lazarus), 



and battle-axe crosses. These are very fine pieces of sculpture, with much 



BISHOPSTONE. Nave walls and south porch both vigour and expression in the attitudes and faces, 



lofty (with sundial) ; long and short quoins. They probably date from the commencement of 



BOSHAM. The chancel arch (horse-shoed and moulded) the eleventh century. Cf. fragments at Jevington. 

 stands upon two enormous bases of Roman columns, CLAYTON. Walls of nave, with long and short quoins, 

 possibly the triumphal arch of Vespasian's basilica. and chancel arch. The rude capitals somewhat 

 The capitals were copied from these bases by the resemble those of the Bosham chancel arch, 

 later builders, whose mouldings are curious and EASTERGATE. Chancel, with a narrow window open- 

 well worthy of study. There is a window (blocked) ing in the north wall. The lower part of the 

 of this first period. The tower is probably later south wall is largely composed of Roman bricks in 



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