A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



Halnaker House, near Goodwood, now a ruin, has an early thirteenth- 

 century chapel, with good plain details, and parts of the house and its offices 

 are of that and the three succeeding centuries. Plates in Rouse's Beauties and 

 Antiquities of Sussex, and Grose's Antiquities of Sussex, give a good idea of its 

 many interesting features before dismantlement. 8 A gateway, some doors, 

 &c., remain fairly perfect. 



At Crowhurst, near Hastings, there is the shell of a late thirteenth- 

 century manor-house, with its chapel ; and a good traceried window still 

 remains in the east gable of the hall a fine room 40 ft. by 23ft. This 

 window, which must have been singularly beautiful, is now bereft of its 

 centre mullion and most of the early geometrical tracery, but the shafted and 

 moulded jambs are nearly perfect and very richly treated. To the south and 

 the east of the hall (which was vaulted at its eastern end below the before- 

 mentioned window) was a vaulted porch having a well-moulded inner arch, 

 and above this again was apparently a small oratory approached by a corbelled- 

 out wall-passage from the vaulted gallery of the hall. Other buildings exist 

 in a fragmentary state or are indicated by foundations ; and the whole, even 

 in ruin, forms a valuable example of the small stone manor-house of this early 

 period.* 



Birling, a hamlet near Eastdean (East Sussex), has a group of ancient 

 buildings, much modernized the remains of the mediaeval manor-house and 

 its offices. One of these, now used as a barn, has walls of considerable 

 height, with lofty windows, having stone seats ; this may have been the 

 hall, and it would appear to have been of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth 

 century. Westdean, in the same locality, possesses some traces of a similar 

 range of buildings, including a ruined stone pigeon-cote. 



These stone pigeon-cotes, or culver-houses, abound, both in East and 

 West Sussex, in connexion with the great house of the parish, and are a 

 visible token of Norman influence : some are doubtless of very early date, 

 possibly twelfth or thirteenth century, such as those at South Mundham 

 (circular, to the south of the church), and the East Sussex group. They 

 occur, inter alia, at Trimmins, near Pax Hill, Pett, Berwick, Alciston, West- 

 dean, and Charleston, East Sussex ; and Treyford (with a good ogee-arched 

 door), and Trotton (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), Mundham, Burton 

 Mill, Petworth (wooden), Patcham, Clapham, Yapton, Walberton, and 

 Atherington octagonal (the last three flint and brick rebuildings of the 

 Georgian period), West Sussex. Lewes Priory had a large transeptal pigeon- 

 house, now destroyed, and Swanborough has the remains of one of ordinary size. 



Battle Abbey has a great deal of work remaining in its various buildings 

 of domestic character, and of all dates, from fragments of the original foundation 

 (late eleventh century) to the post-suppression period some gaunt brick 

 octagonal turrets being a relic of the middle sixteenth century. 



The refectory at Boxgrove, a two-storied gabled building, has many features 

 in common with the houses of the period the early fourteenth century. 



The Knights Hospitallers' house at Poling has parts dating between late 

 twelfth and late fourteenth century, in stone and flint work and half-timber, 



* See a paper in Suss. Arch. Coll. xliii, 201, by the late J. Lewis Andre, F.S.A. Parts of the stonework 

 and some handsome oak panelling of the reign of Hen. VIII now adorn houses in Chichester. 

 4 See an illustrated paper in Sius. Arch. Coll. vii, 44. 



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