A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



herring-bone work. Remains of painting of very 

 early date occur on the north wall inside. 



FORD. North wall of nave, with two windows and a 

 stone bearing an interlaced pattern. The nave 

 work is quite different in character from that of the 

 chancel, which dates c. l loo, and has thicker walls. 



FRISTON. Nave walls, with blocked window and 

 door. A late eleventh-century door stands in close 

 proximity to the latter. 



HAMPNETT, WEST. At the restoration the chancel 

 arch (destroyed) was found to be built with Roman 

 bricks and flue tiles, and the south wall still shows 

 a quantity of the former in herring-bone work, and 

 one window of pre-Conquest date ; another 

 -opposite to it has more recently been taken out. 

 Both were of the rudest character, with a single 



stone for the head, and plastered jambs inclining 



upwards. 

 JEVINGTON. Tower and tower arch, with baluster 



shafted windows and sound holes in bell-chamber ; 



and remarkable early sculptured fragments Christ 



bruising the serpent's head, and the emblems of the 



Evangelists. 

 LEWES. A doorway preserved from the rebuilt church, 



with surface strip-work. Cf. that at Old Shoreham 



LURCASHALL. North wall of nave, with narrow and 

 lofty door and herring-bone rubble. 



RUMBOLDSWYKE. Built of Roman bricks and large 

 pick-dressed stones. Later windows inserted, but 

 chancel arch is original, and possibly also a very 

 early piscina. 



SELHAM. The plan of this church and the north 

 door and chancel arch are pre-Conquest. The 

 former is a narrow unrebated opening, of large, 

 roughly-dressed stones. The latter is moulded 

 and stands upon very remarkable abaci and capitals. 



SINGLETON. The exceptionally spacious western tower, 

 parts of nave walls, and a two-light window in east 

 gable of nave. There was probably a roof-chamber 

 over the nave, with which a tall and narrow 

 triangular-headed door in the middle stage of the 

 tower communicated. The quoin stones are 

 doubled, as at Ford and Lyminster, and there are 

 double-splayed windows in the lower stages. 



OLD SHOREHAM. The nave represents that of the 

 pre-Conquest church with the addition of a western 

 porticus, the long and short quoins of both are 

 plainly visible on the north side ; together with a 

 tall and narrow doorway, having remains of strip- 

 work round it, and a triangular-headed window in 

 west gable. 



SOMPTING. Tower, with four-gabled termination, and 

 spire ; perhaps parts of nave and chancel walls, with 

 carved work built into same. The tower has long 

 and short work, pilaster strips, ornamental string- 

 course, vertical circular shaft, with capitals and 

 bases, in the centre of each face. The windows are 

 in pairs, round-headed and triangular-headed, and 

 those north and south of the uppermost stage have 

 mid-wall shafts with corbel-capitals of peculiar 

 design. The tower arch has a half-round member 

 upon the flat soffit and Corinthianesque capitals, 

 flanked by Classical-looking cornuacopiae. The 

 spire timbers appear to be of the same early date 

 (c, A.D. 1000) as the tower. 



STOPHAM. Nave, with north and south doors, the 

 latter having mouldings to the arch, and angle 

 shafts with capitals of a serrated section. 



STOUGHTON. There is a double-splayed window, high 

 up in the south wall of the nave, closely resembling 

 those at Singleton a few miles away. 



WOOLBEDINC. The south wall of the nave, in par- 

 ticular, is pre-Conquest, as is evidenced by a number 

 of pilaster strips. The blocked south door is of 

 the same period, and perhaps the bowl of a pillar 

 piscina. 



WORTH. The apsidal and cruciform plan, the chancel 

 arch of bold proportions and wide span, the massive 

 transeptal arches, the lofty north and south doors, 

 the windows in pairs with mid-wall baluster, the 

 external string-course and pilaster strips, are the 

 most noteworthy features in this remarkable church. 



The following churches contain work of very early character, but the evidence in favour of a 

 pre-Conquest date, although weighty, is not conclusive. In most cases they probably represent the 

 period of building activity which set in with the Confessor's reign the quarter of a century pre- 

 ceding the Conquest, when Norman influence was strong. 



ALDINGBOURNE. Parts of walls of nave, and perhaps BIGNOR. Chancel arch, built of ponderous stones of 

 blocked windows in south wall. Roman character, pick-dressed. 



BEXHILL. The western part of nave walls pierced by BOLNEY. South door of nave, nearly 9 ft. high, of 

 a later arcade ; herring-bone work. two orders, rudely moulded, on chamfered abaci 



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