ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



PIDDINGHOE. Round tower, with well - preserved 

 windows, c. 1 1 20. 



PVECOMBE. Chancel arch, plain and lofty, and parts 

 of walls, c. 1080. 



SEAFORD. Lower part of tower, with curious ar- 

 rangement of arches, c. 1120. 



SHIPLEY. Nave, axial tower, and chancel, with 

 richly moulded arches, c. 1 1 20. This church re- 

 tains an enamelled reliquary of twelfth-century date. 



SHOREHAM, NEW. Begun 1103. The fine arches of 

 central tower, walls, and windows of transepts, arch 

 of ruined nave arcade, and font belong to this 

 period, c. 1 10320. 



SOUTHEASE. Round tower and parts of walls, c. I loo. 



SOUTH WICK. Lower stage of tower and arch in 

 chancel. Note early voluted capitals of tower 

 arch, rude Ionic in character, c. 1080. 



STEYNING. Arches in quire, and east end of aisles, 

 chancel arch, and part of walls. Note scalloped and 

 carved capitals, earlier than the remarkable arcades 

 of the nave, c . 1 1 20. 



STOKE, SOUTH. Plain south door, c. 1 1 20. 



TERWICK. West wall, with door and window. Door 

 retains its original hinges, c. noo. 



TREYFORD. Door in north wall of nave. 



WALBERTON. Arches of two dates in nave, win- 

 dow in west gable, insertions in older walls, 

 partly destroyed in recent rebuilding, c. 1070 to 

 mo. 



WALTHAM, UP. Apsidal chancel and nave ; pillar 

 piscina with voluted cap. 



WESTFIELD. Chancel arch, parts of walls, and a win- 

 dow, c. 11 oo. 



WESTMESTON. Chancel arch (destroyed in restora- 

 tion), doors, and walls. 



WHATLINGTON. Chancel arch, &c., with the main 

 walls, c. 1080. 



WILMINGTON. Chancel, with good windows and 

 semi-octagonal string-course, bearing a zigzag mould- 

 ing, c. n 20. 



WISBOROUGH GREEN. Walling and some windows in 

 nave, c. 1080. 



FROM c. 1 1 20 TO c. 1160 



The work in this period is much richer in treatment, and the mason-craft more skilful. 

 Towards its close ' pen-knife ' joints are common, and there is a good deal of finely axed Caen stone- 

 work in buttresses and wall faces, as at New Shoreham and Southwick. The billet is found at Old 

 Shoreham and Steyning. Rich chevron work occurs at East Wittering, Tortington, Burpham, 

 Old Shoreham, Bishopstone, &c. ; and varieties of the chevron at Shipley, Burpham, Steyning, 

 Broadwater, Rodmell, and Iford. Two instances only of the use of beak-heads as an enrichment 

 are found at Tortington (chancel arch) and New Shoreham (west door). Some of the most typical 

 work is at Steyning and Old Shoreham, where the student will find almost every form of enrich- 

 ment in use in this period. Scalloped or pleated capitals here and elsewhere are common, the scallops 

 being sometimes (as at Burpham) concave and serrated. These are varied by grotesque forms (human 

 and animal faces and figures), and early attempts at foliage. Roses, limpet shells, bunches of grapes, &c., 

 occur as enrichments at Old Shoreham, Tortington, and Buncton. The pointed arch is found 

 towards the close of this period, as at Shipley and New Shoreham (doors), and Buncton (arcading). 

 The windows are mostly longer, while preserving their narrowness, as at Hellingly and Litlington, 

 but sometimes e.g. Steyning nave and Rye transepts they are of considerable breadth. Banded 

 shafts occur in the later work, as at Hellingly, Rye, &c. Flat buttresses are used, and roofs of 

 moderately steep pitch are the rule. The earliest instances of vaulting in Sussex occur towards the 

 close of the period. Good examples of nave arcades are found at Steyning (some of the richest in 

 England), New Shoreham, Bexhill, and Icklesham. A very early instance of the use of dog-tooth 

 moulding occurs in the arches at Steyning (aisle side), where also an extraordinary variety will be 

 found in the capitals (of circular form), arch-mouldings, and string-courses. There is a touch of 

 Saracenic art the result of the Crusades in many of the details as e.g. in some of the capitals 

 at Steyning. 



BEXHILL. Arches in nave (capitals with enriched 



scalloping and rudimentary foliage), arch in tower, 



c. 1150. 

 BINSTED. The small church, built by the monks of 



Tortington, belongs entirely to c. 1140, saving 



inserted features. Note coeval windows, piscina, 



tabernacle (?), font, and mural paintings. 

 BISHOPSTONE. The low north aisle, with its small 



windows, c. 1 1 60. 

 BLATCHINGTON, EAST. Fabric a good deal altered, 



c . 1 1 60 . 

 BLATCHINGTON, WEST. Walls and some windows, 



c. 1 150. 

 BOXGROVE. Transepts, and east bays of nave, with 



early vaulting, arcaded entrance to chapter-house 



(a rich piece of work), &c., c. 1 130. 

 BULVERHYTHE. The plan and some fragments of 



this ruined church. Some of the latter resemble 



the capitals of nave arcade at Icklesham {post}, 

 c. 1 150. 



BUNCTON. External wall arcades of chancel, c . 1 1 60. 

 Acutely pointed arches, with fruit and strap orna- 

 ments. Cf. Tortington, post. 



BURPHAM. Arch in south transept, c. 1150. Very 

 rich example. Note the varieties of scalloped 

 capitals, the fine base-spurs, and the different pat- 

 terns of chevron mouldings. The north transept 

 has a plain arch and a chevron-bordered window of 

 the same date. Note cap with palm-leaf ornamenta- 

 tion (detached). See illustration on p. 369. 



CHILTINGTON, WEST. Arcades of nave having pointed 

 arches and enriched scallop capitals (cf. Rustington), 

 north and south doors, and arch to south chapel, 

 window in chancel, &c., c . 1 1 50. 



HELLINGLY. c. 1 1 50-60. Respond in nave, and 

 windows in chancel, with early foliaged capitals 



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