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186 retains a doorcase, terminating above in a pointed arch, and another with an ogée head; both of wood. 6. .—In (A.D. 1291) we find "Ecclia de Almodytone," and, though the church has disappeared, the designation continues, as in (Val. Eccl.), "Earnley R. with Almoditon R.," and to this day in the (Clergy List), "Earnley R. with Almodington R." The latter place, once a separate parish, is now included in that of Earnley, the annexation having been effected in 1526, according to Dallaway. Not simply the church, but the parish of Almoditone is mentioned in (N.R.) 7. .—"Idem construxit de novo cancellam ecclesise de Amberley—The same person" (Bp. Nevill) "built anew the chancel of the church of Amberley." Bp. Rede's Reg. E. Bp. Nevill died A.D. 1252. The church contains a Norm. arch, and mouldings of a rare pattern (which is not described, A.H.) resembling some in an old conventual church at Ely; also a small brass of John Wantell (Wantele, Boutell), 1424. At Rackham, a hamlet or farm in the parish of Amberley, formerly stood a chapel. (Cartwright's reprint of Dallaway's Hist. of the Rape of Arundel.) For a notice of the above memorial see (Monum. Brasses, 71.)There are considerable remains of Amberley Castle, an ancient residence of the Bishops of Chichester.—"In one of the apartments, still called the Queen's Room, are some curious paintings, the side panels exhibiting a series of female figures, but for whom designed is altogether unknown. The inscriptions under them have long become illegible, and indeed the paintings themselves, which are extremely curious,—are now almost defaced, and fast mouldering into decay. On the ceiling are the portraits of six warriors, carved in wood." (Horsfield's Sussex, II, 159.) 8. .—Though there is now only one parish under the name of Angmering, originally there were two, each possessing a church. In (A.D. 1291) and in the (N.R.) East and West Angmering are noticed separately; as likewise in (Val. Eccl.), where the first is styled a rectory, the other a vicarage. The two names still appear in the (Clergy List) thus, "East Angmering, V. with West Angmering, R;" the designations being reversed from what they are in (Val. Eccl.) The latter record describes also a chantry of East Angmering.—Under the name of Angemeringum this place is mentioned in King Alfred's will. (Asser's Alfred, by Wise, 77.)

Two shapeless fragments of wall yet lying in a garden are the