ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



and plain jambs ; chancel walls, with two windows 

 (originally more windows and a north door). 



BURPHAM. North wall nave, with small blocked 

 window of very primitive character. 



BURTON. Nave, north wall, &c., with much herring- 

 bone work. 



CHICHESTER, ST. OLAVE'S CHURCH. Nave walls, with 

 narrow south doorway. The chancel (rebuilt) in- 

 corporated part of a Roman building. Note the 

 dedication to a Danish saint. 



DEAN, WEST (WEST SUSSEX). Nave, north wall, with 

 tall and narrow doorway. 



EASTDEAN. (East Sussex). Tower on north side of 

 nave. This stands on the borderland of the period. 

 The window-jambs incline inwards, and there are 

 other marks of pre-Conquest date. It would seem 

 to have been a semi-defensive tower, with an 

 oratory-apse on its east face. 



ELSTED. Nave walls. The piercing of an arcade of 

 late eleventh-century character in the north wall is 

 presumptive evidence of older work in the fabric. 

 Much herring-bone work. The lofty chancel arch 

 is horse-shoed. 



FELPHAM. Nave walls ? Early Norman or Saxon. 

 These have been tunnelled through to form ar- 

 cades in the twelfth century. They are enormously 

 thick. 



FERRING. Blocked window south wall. A very small 

 and rude apercure, resembling that at Burpham. 



FITTLEWORTH. Tower ? Very plain early-looking 

 work, without, however, any distinctive features. 



HANGLETON. Nave, with north and south doorways, 

 and the heads of blocked windows. This may be 

 of post-Conquest date. The walls are built of 

 herring-bone flints. 



HARDHAM. Largely built of Roman materials. The 

 square-headed north door quoins and narrow 

 splayed windows in the nave are of very early 

 character. The dedication is to St. Botolph, a 

 Saxon saint. 



KINGSTON-BY-SEA. The quoins have an early appear- 

 ance. 



LYMINSTER. The lofty nave and chancel, with a tall 

 south doorway, pierced through the wall without a 

 rebate, and the singular chancel arch are probably 

 pre-Conquest. There was a nunnery here from 

 the ninth or tenth century, and this was the nuns' 

 church. 



MARDEN, UP. Chancel ar^h, triangular head, square 

 jambs, and rude masonry. 



NORTHIAM. Some of the masonry in the tower re- 

 sembles that at Appledore (Kent), an admitted pre- 

 Conquest example. 



OVINGDEAN. Nave and chancel, with several original 

 windows, the north doorway, chancel arch, and a 

 triangular headed recess in east wall, formed of 

 Roman bricks. 



ROTTINGDEAN. Parts of west and north walls, nave, 

 including many fragments (? of baluster shafts), 

 built in as old material. The lower courses of the 

 north door quoins and the west quoin of nave, 

 north side, are in large blocks of sandstone. 



SLAUGHAM. The north wall of the nave, with its 

 early doorway, resembling those at Wivelsfield and 

 Bolney. 



STEDHAM. Fragments of rude coffin-slabs, &c., found 

 in and beneath the walls of the twelfth-century 

 church. Spiral shell-like ornaments of very unusual 

 character are carved upon some fragments. 



STOKE, SOUTH. North wall of nave, &c. 



TANGMERE. One of the very primitive windows has 

 a rude bas-relief of (?) the Decollation of St. John 

 the Baptist. 



WALBERTON. The nave, recently almost rebuilt, had 

 arches of late eleventh-century date pierced through 

 its walls, and the walls were found to be largely 

 composed of Roman bricks. A rude gable-cross of 

 (probably) pre-Conquest date was found in the 

 west wall. 



WESTDEAN. Window, north wall, nave. A very rude 

 blocked opening. The circle of the head has an 

 upward scoop (as at Ovingdean) for the freer 

 admission of light. 



WIVELSFIELD. In the north nave wall (rebuilt) is the 

 original narrow and tall door, with square jambs, 

 chamfered abaci and rudely moulded arch of two 

 orders, so precisely similar to the south door of 

 Bolney Church that it is evident they are the work 

 of the same hands. 



YAPTON. Parts of west and south walls of nave, against 

 which a tower of late twelfth-century date has 

 been built without bonding in, showing the nave 

 walls to be earlier. The remarkable font, with 

 sword-shaped crosses under circular arches, and 

 herring-bone ornamentation, is probably pre-Con- 

 quest. 



FROM f. 1070 TO f. 1120 



The work of this period is plain and rude in character. At first sight there is but 

 little to distinguish some of these examples from those at the end of the last list the ' Saxon 

 over-lap.' 



The stonework is tooled broadly with the axe ; masonry joints are wide, square-edged arches are 

 the rule, and the only exceptions are a coarse three-quarter round moulding, as at Chichester Cathe- 

 dral, Steyning, and Amberley, or the various forms of billet and simple zigzag, as at Lewes Priory, 

 Chichester, Lancing, and Wilmington. Windows are usually narrow, but sometimes broad and 

 square, as at Barnham and Tangmere. At Amberley, Chichester Cathedral, and New Shoreham 

 church, they are wider and much more architectural in treatment, having shafts and mouldings. 

 Plain cushion capitals or the earlier form of scalloping are usually found, but sometimes they 

 are voluted (e.g. Chichester Cathedral and Amberley), or very rudely carved. Doors, chancel 

 arches, and the rare instances of nave arcades (Elsted, Aldingbourne, and Walberton) are very 

 plain, with simply chamfered abaci. Walls, as a rule, are thicker, and not so well built as in the 



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