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Rh chancel. The style of the building and woodwork is late Dec.; but the font is E.E. The porch is of wood, and original, though modernised. There are traces of a moat round the church. Haremare, near the turnpike-road on the hill eastward from the church, is an ancient mansion, dating perhaps from the sixteenth century.

87. .— A church of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, square west tower with stair turret and shingled spire, and west porch. There are Norm., E.E., Dec., and Perp. portions. Some coloured glass remains in the three-light Dec. east window. The font is square, shallow, on a stem and foot, all of Weald marble. The timber sides of the porch have been replaced by brick. The north wall appears the oldest part of the body of the building. Part of the tower wall is of rubble masonry. It seems as if aisles had extended, or were contemplated, on each side of the tower (compare the Note on Sandhurst, Kent). Brass, small: Will. Crysford, 15. . (Horsfield, Suss. I, 520, gives 1520.) Compare also the Note on Bodiam.

88. .—The locality, to which this name is appropriated, is now only a portion of West Dean, though formerly not merely possessing its own church, but even being regarded as a parish. It will be perceived, that the place is noticed in (D. B.), whereby its early importance is ascertained; and (A.D. 1291) mentions the "Ecclia de Exete," as well as the "Ecclia de Westden;" while (N. R.) distinctly describes Exete church as parochial, " parochialis ecclesia." The ancient church has entirely disappeared, and I could not learn, in the neighbourhood, not upon the spot, any remaining tradition of its existence, though Horsfield states, that " the site is still shown." (Suss. I, 282.)

89. .—This church has been rebuilt very recently.

90. .—For spiritual purposes this parish is united with that of Stanmer. See the Note on Burgemere.

91. .— This was originally a chapelry to Easebourne, see the Note there. In a large wood in this parish are the ruins of a quadrangular castellated building, measuring 68 feet by 33; of which the remaining walls were some time ago pulled down for the sake of using the stone in repairing the roads. (Horsfield's Suss. II, 104.)

92. .—It seems that this must be, as it is considered, the " Falcheham " of (D.B.), which is placed in the hundred of Benestede, thereby agreeing with the position of Felpham. In the (Nonæ Roll) the name is "Felegham." The church has