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 ARCHITECTURAL NOTICES. 145 transepts are not so long in proportion to the rest of the building as at Poynings. The east window, of five lights, has already been noticed. Its two central mullions, together with the arches which they throw into the jambs of the window, are of the first order, the other mullions of the second. The chancel has a lychnoscope (if that is the recognised term) on both the north and south side. All the front windows have Perpendicular lines ; the side ones have flowing tracery, evidently late. The nave has doors on the north, south, and west, the latter having square spandrils. The south door has a porch, and there is a south chancel door. The tower arches have three orders. Some of the mouldings exhibit convex faces. The faces of their piers are concave. The sedilia have octagonal shafts and round arches with ogee canopies, which break through a horizontal line of spandrils. The piscina is of similar character. Though the details are of pure late Decorated, the composition of the sedilia has almost the effect of Cinque-cento. Perhaps this is owing to the shape of the arches. In the chancel, on the north side, is a flat-arched monumental recess. The font is plain and square. Its pedestal has at the angles engaged octagonal shafts. There are some remains of painted glass in the north transept, among which may be noticed a figure of St. Alphege in one of the tracery hghts. A careful comparison of this church with those of Poynings and Shottesbrooke would be found inter- esting. The county of Sussex affords some good specimens of tran- sition from Norman to Early Enghsh. In Steyning Church the arches continue semicircular, and the change of style shows itself in varied and multiplied mouldings. At Broad- water, New Shoreham, and Southwick, the mouldings are simpler, but the pointed arch makes its appearance, and is frequently enriched with pure Norman ornaments. This is the case with the tower arches at Broadwater. There are pro- bably many Saxon specimens in the county besides the well- known one at Sompting ; and still more numerous instances where plainness of work and roughness of masonry would tempt one to assign an ante-Norman date to the building. On the whole, httle as the hasty traveller may be struck by the ecclesiastical features of this county, the careful observer will find as much to reward his trouble as in districts more renowned for the beauty and magnificence of their structures. J. L. PETIT.