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296 the names of (D.B.), yet the quotation from the old document in the Note on Southease declares it to have had a church in the tenth century. In (N.R.) it appears as Titelescombe, and Tetelescumbe. The church is a very small building of chancel, nave, north aisle and chancel, and west tower. The north chancel was destroyed, but has lately been rebuilt, when the north wall was somewhat raised, being originally very low, as the nave-roof covered the aisle. The date seems to be Tr. Norm. 250. .—or West Thorney, as in (Val. Eccl.)—This church has some Norm. ornaments. (Dallaway.) (D.B.) specially mentions "a priest" here. 251. .—Some of the church windows contain fragments of coloured glass. (Horsfield's Suss. I, 591, 592.) Boarzell is an old moated residence in this parish. Pashley also, situated nearer to the village of Ticehurst, seems to have been a settlement of much consideration in early times. 252. .—At River, in the northern part of Tillington, was once most probably a chapel; the names "Chapel Field, Lady Field, Soul Field," and "Chantry Field," being still known there; and a stone coffin was dug up on the premises of River farm. (Horsfield's Suss. II, 181.)

253. .—This very small church comprehends only chancel, nave with a wooden bellcot over the west end, and south porch. The building was formerly larger, judging from the appearance of an arch in the south wall of both chancel and nave; it is generally Norm., with some Tr. Norm. or E.E. The chancel-arch is ornamented with dog's tongue or "beakhead" moulding, that of the entrance with zigzag and starlike quatrefoils. In the small east window are some remains of coloured glass, with the names of the four Evangelists. The font is late Norm. A very few oak benches yet exist here. The church has been much patched, the condition of the walls being greatly concealed by whitewash.—A priory for five or six regular Augustine canons was founded at Tortington by Lady Hadewissa Corbet before the reign of K. John (Tann. Notit. Monast. Sussex, xl, in Monast. VI, 597.)—In (Val. Eccl.), under the estimation of the possessions of the priory of Tortington, among the spirituals in the county of Sussex, appear "Profits of the tithes of the church of Tryneburne," but the name does not occur again in the diocese, neither have I discovered any clue to the identification of the place intended.

254. .—In (Val. Eccl.) Treyford is joined with