The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
East Sussex (now)
Parish church
This is a cruciform Norman church, which was much enlarged in the 13thc.
The nave is flanked by aisles with five-bay
arcades dating from the early 13thc.; on the S side is
a porch and the Lamb Vault (with sacristy over), dating from the 14thc. and 15thc.
respectively. The crossing tower and transepts are of
12thc. origin, but were remodelled in the late 12thc., then again in the
15thc., when the crossing tower was rebuilt. The
chancel is flanked by three-bay
arcades opening into chapels: this is mainly 13thc.
work, but much of the arcades was rebuilt in the
15thc.
Parish church
Th nave of Rottingdean church dates from the early 12thc., with the
exception of the W wall, which was rebuilt in the 14thc. The central tower and
chancel date from the 13thc., and the S aisle was added in 1856. The
foundations of a S transept were found in 1909. The loose fragments in the
church probably came from the 12thc. church on the site.
Parish church
Rodmell church has a late 12thc. W tower with a baptistery on the S
side, a 12thc. nave with a late 12thc. S aisle, and a chancel with a S chapel (formerly the private chapel of Place
House) and a modern vestry to the N. The round-headed
pseudo-Norman chancel arch is thought to reproduce the
original arch, which had a pointed head. The original stones are in the Rectory
garden, and are thought to have been brought from Lewes Priory after 1537. The
font dates from the late 12thc.
Parish church
The oldest parts of the church are the W tower, nave, N porch and S
chapel, all of which date to the early or mid-12th century. The Early English S
aisle, with its four-bay arcade, was added in the late 12th century, and the
chancel was extended in the 13th. The chancel arch is modern. The church was restored in 1889.
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.
Parish church
Beckley church has an 11thc. W tower with herringbone masonry at the lower level. The nave is flanked by aisles with late 13thc. arcades and the chancel seems to date from the early 14thc. The present font is 18thc., but fragments of its 12thc. predecessor survive in the church.
Parish church
Beddingham is a village in East Sussex, 2 miles SE of Lewes. It lies on the Glynde Reach, a tributary of the River Ouse, and its houses and church cluster around the junction of the A26 road to Newhaven and the A27, linking Lewes and Eastbourne. The church of St Andrew is of flint with ashlar dressings and some flint chequerwork on the tower. It consists of a chancel, and aisled nave with a clerestorey and a S porch, and a W tower. Of these elements the nave is 12thc, the S arcade and chancel are 14thc, the N aisle is of 1858 replacing a 14thc aisle, and the tower is mid-16thc. Built into the exterior walls of the tower and the S nave aisle are many carved stones from Lewes Priory, and these form the subject of this report. It must not be imagined that all the carved stones here have been identified, but it is hoped that a representative sample has been discovered.
Parish church
The church has a W tower, a nave, a S porch and
a chancel. It is largely Early English in style but
there is a small Norman window in the N wall.
Parish church
The only surviving sculptures from the 12thc. church, which comprised a
W tower, single-cell nave and chancel, are the
chancel arch capitals.