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- 1. St Andrew, Bishopstone, Sussex, England
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Parish church The Anglo-Saxon origins of Bishopstone church are visible in the long and short quoining of the nave and S porticus, and two windows in the W wall of the nave. A scratch dial set over the S doorway is also thought to be Anglo-Saxon. It is inscribed: +EADRIC.
- 2. Broadwater (Worthing), Sussex, England
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Parish church This unusually large but (unfortunately) heavily restored parish church comprises a chancel, central tower, transepts, S vestry and an aisled and clerestoried nave with N and W porches. The earliest part is the central tower (mid-12thc.), with transepts, which were either added or remodelled later in the same century. The nave and chancel date from the 13thc. and the W front was built in 1887.
- 3. All Saints, Buncton, Sussex, England
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Parish Church A small church in a rural location, comprising a single nave with opposing N and S doorways and a short, square-ended chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found on a number of reset fragments and on the chancel arch.
- 4. Chichester Cathedral (Holy Trinity), Chichester, Sussex, England
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Cathedral Chichester Cathedral is situated within the SW quadrant of the city, which was originally laid out by the Romans. A small, irregular cloister ('Paradise') on the S side gives access to the Chapel of St Faith, the 15thc.Vicar's Close, and St Richard's Lane. The Bishop's Palace lies to the SW, and there are a number of clergy houses to the S, along Canon Lane (see separate entry for No.4 Canon Lane). A detached tower stands to the NW.
- 5. St Leonard, Seaford, Sussex, England
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Parish church Seaford church has a W tower, an aisled nave with two-bay arcades and a S porch, a non-projecting transept, a large chancel with a polygonal end and a N chapel. The Perp tower seems to have been erected within the W bay of a Norman nave, but the W doorway is neo-Norman rather than Norman. Herringbone masonry suggests that the N aisle is of Norman origin, but the present two-bay nave arcades, clerestoreys and corbel tables appear to date from the early 13thc. One capital in the S arcade is historiated, with the Baptism of Christ, the Harrowing of Hell, Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Massacre of the Innocents, and the Crucifixion. The mid-Victorian 'transepts' and chancel were designed by John Billing and erected in 1861-62.
- 6. St Giles, Shermanbury, Sussex, England
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Parish church A very small, rendered parish church composed of an unaisled nave with a timber bell-cote over the W end and a small square-ended chancel. There are traces of opposing N and S doorways in the nave walls although the church is now entered through a W doorway.
- 7. St Mary, Sompting, Sussex, England
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Parish Church The church comprises a continuous chancel and nave, a N transept with an E aisle, a S transept (originally a separate chapel) with an E chapel and S porch, and a W tower capped by a 14thc. `Rhenish Helm'. The tower was erected in three 11thc. campaigns: the lower stage is pre-Conquest, the first and second storeysc.1066-80 and the third storeyc.1080-1100. A N doorway demonstrates that vestiges of the nave belong to the first half of the 12thc., but the transepts and chancel were erected after 1154, when the church was acquired by the Templars. The church underwent extensive restorations in 1853, when most of the internal masonry was scraped under R.C. Carpenter. The interior contains a number of fragments ascribed to the 11thc., and a plain 12thc. font.
- 8. St Andrew, Steyning, Sussex, England
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Formerly Collegiate church, now parish church This church comprises a W tower, a 12thc. aisled nave and a 19thc. chancel. The demolition of the medieval choir, transepts and central tower, dilapidated since the Dissolution, was begun in 1577 and completed in the 17thc. A new chancel and W tower, which occupies the site of the W bay(s) of the nave, were then constructed. What was lost at the E end must have been largely of early 12thc. date, judging from the surviving W piers and arch of the crossing and the E arches of the S and N aisles which formerly opened into the transepts. The nave was erected later in the 12thc. The present chancel is of the 19thc.
- 9. St Mary the Virgin, Upwaltham, Sussex, England
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Parish church The church has a single-cell nave and a semi-circular apse preceded by a straight bay. Romanesque sculpture is found on a capital reused as a piscina. The church also contains a plain font.
- 10. St Mary and St Peter, Wilmington, Sussex, England
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Parish church Wilmington church has a nave with a N porch, a bell-turret over the W end and a two-bay S aisle with a 13thc. arcade. Towards the E end of the nave, on the N side, is a chapel (now vestry). The chancel is entered through a Victorian arch (1883; Paley and Austin), but retains two original Norman windows and sections of a string course carved with sawtooth. A 12thc. relief depicting the Virgin and Child is set in the S wall. The font dates from the early 13thc., but its form continues a 12thc. tradition.
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