The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
East Sussex (now)
Parish church
Consecrated in 1505, this is a brick church with a hipped M-shaped roof,
which covers the nave and chancel together. The font
comes from an earlier church.
Parish church
Fletching is an attactive village in the Wealden district of East Sussex, 6 miles E of Haywards Heath. The church is in the centre of the village, and has a 12thc. W tower and nave; 13thc. aisles and transepts; Victorian chancel (John Oldrid Scott).
Parish church
The W tower and a corner of the nave are all that survive of an
aisleless church ofc.1100. The neo-Norman doorway in the W wall of the
tower replaced a simple doorway, itself an insertion. Elements of the church
dating from the 12thc. are a fragment of the N aisle,c.1100-20, and the
Chapel of St John,c.1190, which has an entrance arch with
chevron but is otherwise stylistically `Transitional'.
Parish church
Hangleton church has a 13thc. W tower, an early Norman nave with
opposing N and S doorways, a N porch and
vestry, and a square-ended 14thc. chancel, separated from the nave by a screen. There is a small Norman window in the S wall of the
nave, and another in the N. Two reset corbels and one
loose corbel may be 12thc. in date.
Parish church
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.
Parish church
Maresfield is a village in the Wealden district of East Sussex, on the N side of Uckfield. The church is in the village centre and has a Perp W tower, a nave of Norman origin and a transept and chancel designed by J Olrid Scott (1875-79).
Parish church
Burwash is a large village in the Rother district of East Sussex, 10 miles SE of Tunbridge Wells and 12 miles NW of Hastings. The W tower is all that remains of an early 12thc. church, rebuilt piecemeal with the addition of N and S aisles later in the medieval period.
Parish church
This church does not incorporate any obvious 12thc. fabric. It has a W tower, a long nave with a 13thc. (Early English) clerestorey, later aisles with 6-bay arcades, and a square chancel with a N chapel.
Parish church
A heavily restored church comprising nave and chancel. It contains a Romanesque font.
Parish church
The church comprises a late 12thc. aisled nave, a 13thc. W tower, and a
chancel ofc.1240, with a chapel on its N and S sides.
The nave arcades have pointed arches on alternating
octagonal and cylindrical piers with foliate capitals.
The font is the only carved Romanesque feature.