St Bartholomew, Chalvington, Sussex

I Location

Site Location: Chalvington
National Grid Reference: TQ 518 093
County: traditional: Sussex
now: East Sussex
Diocese: medieval: Chichester
now: Chichester
Dedication: medieval: not confirmed
now (or name of monument): St Bartholomew
Type of building/monument: Parish church

II General Description

Chalvington has a single nave with a bell-turret over the W end, opposing N and S doorways (N doorway now blocked), and a two-bay chancel. There is no chancel arch. Restored 1873.

III Exterior Features

3. Exterior Decoration

d. Miscellaneous

(i) Two voussoirs

: N doorway, voussoirs.

: N doorway, voussoirs.

: S wall, voussoirs.

Two chevron voussoirs are reset in the flint facing above the 13thc.(?) N doorway, and a third is located at the W end of the S wall of the nave, set on its side. The chevron involves two rolls and two hollows, and the stone is a pale limestone. Two of the fragments were dug up when repairing the foundation of the church, as reported in SAC 1873.

Dimensions

Right-hand voussoir (over N doorway):
h.	0.20 m
w.	0.18 m

Left-hand voussoir (over N doorway):
h.	0.17 m
w.	0.24 m

Voussoir in S wall:
h. (originally w.)	tapers from 0.18 m to 0.20 m
w.	0.19 m

VII History

The two fragments were dug up when repairing the foundation of the church, as reported in Sussex Archaeological Collections 1873.

VIII Comments/Opinions

IX Bibliography

T. Fuller, 'The church of St Bartholomew, Chalvington', Notes and Queries, Sussex Archaeological Collections 25, 1873, 228
Hamilton Dicker, 'The Church of St Bartholomew, Chalvington', Sussex Archaeological Collections 2, 1849, 285-287
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth 1965, 470.