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307 is circular, but rude. At Cakeham Manor Place, the occasional residence of the bishops from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, was a chapel. (Dallaway.) The ancient chapel here is now used as a dairy, and there is also a brick tower of later date, erected by Bp. Sherborne. (Suss. Arch. Coll. I, 182, note 50.)—The name of West Wittering occurs in (Val. Eccl.).

282. .—This small church, from its peculiar position, has been sadly patched and neglected; but still it retains interesting features. It comprises chancel, nave with south aisle and chancel, south porch, and a square tower with a shingled cap at the west end of the aisle. The chancel contains a piscina, now used as a cupboard! and what appears like a sepulchral arch in the north wall. In the south chancel are a piscina and an ambry, both trefoil-headed. The walls of the building seem to be Norm, or Tr. Norm.; the north door early Norm.; the south door is Perp. At least the lower part of the tower is Dec., with Perp. windows higher up. The church is so mutilated, that its character is difficult to decipher; the piers and arches between the nave and aisle, as also the chancels, particularly the latter, exhibit some traces of the E.E. style. The old stoup is visible, but damaged, near the south door.—Not far from the church eastward stands Moore House, of which the original moat is nearly or quite entire. About two miles from Wivelsfield eastward is another old house, Fanners, built of stone. Many others of different dates and construction may be observed in this part of Sussex.—Wivelsfield was once a chapelry to Ditchling. It was appropriated to Lewes priory by Bp. Seffrid II. (Horsfield's Suss. I, 229.)

283. .—The font here is bell-shaped. (Dallaway.) "The chancel window is adorned with stained glass, removed from the priory of Mottisfont by Sir Henry Mill, when rector." (Horsfield's Suss. II, 101.)

284. .—This name, that is, "Gorde," occurs in the Domesday Survey of Sussex, but in Framfield hundred, therefore signifying the manor of Worth, part of which, according to Horsfield, lies in the parish of Little Horsted. In the Survey of Surrey we find the name of "Orde," but Manning and Bray (History of Surrey) consider it not applicable to Worth, though that parish is situated on the borders of the two counties, and the manor may well have extended into both. However, though omitted in (D.B.) this church is undoubtedly of very early origin. It consists of nave with transepts and