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245 in which are several windows, the ascent to the upper story being the same formerly used.

143. .—In (A.D. 1291) both "Esthychenore" and "Westechenore" are mentioned. East Itchenor is now included in Birdham, but was a distinct parish till the fourteenth century. (Dallaway.) It will be perceived, that both are named in (N.R.) also. West Itchenor alone appears in (Val. Eccl.), and in the present (Clergy List).

144. .—The tower of this church "is composed of very large blocks, or rather entire trees, fastened together with wooden bolts." (Cartwright.) Compare the notice of the "very curious" timber church of Greenstead, Essex, (Rickman, 163, 4th ed. 1835.) The "Hethyngfeld" of (N.R.) must, it is conceived, mean Itchingfield.

145. .—There can hardly be a doubt, that the "Jonniton—note, Gynniton," in the deanery of Pevensey, (of A.D. 1291,) and the "Jeryngetone" (of N.R.) must signify Jevington.—The church contains a trefoil-headed piscina. From the description the tower appears to be Norm. "In a stone chest in Jevington belfry was discovered by Sir Will. Burrell a figure carved in stone, representing our Saviour with a cross in his hand, bruising the head of the serpent; it is about two feet high; and is now placed in the wall of the belfry." (Horsfield's Suss. I, 286, 287.) 146. .—Is pronounced "Kȳmer," very nearly as the name is written in (A.D. 1291); see Clayton. This is a small church of chancel, nave, south porch, and west tower. The chancel is apsidal, like that of Newhaven not merely rounded at the extremity, but the curve commences from the junction with the nave. The chancel arch is round, the piers being square blocks of masonry, with abaci at the spring of the arch. One small Norm, window is visible, though closed; the others are Dec. insertions. The north door of the nave is closed. The tower, which with the rest of the church has been greatly patched and plastered, is in two stages, the lower Norm.; the upper, if not the same, is yet Tr. Norm. The top is a shingled cap.—Keymer is still a curacy united with the rectory of Clayton. (Clergy List.) 147.  near Lewes.—The church of this place is mentioned about A.D. 1200 in a charter of Bishop Seffrid II. See under St. John sub castro, Lewes. The existing building, which has a disproportionally small tower, dates perhaps from