140 AECHITECTURAL NOTICES. windows, also small Norman ones of one light, face diagonally. The tower has an octagonal shingled spire. The nave has had aisles, of which the northern one remains. The pier arches are round, plain, of one order, without a chamfer. The im- posts square, wdth an abacus. The arches on the south side, which are built up, seem very Early pointed. The chancel arch is a beautiful Early English one, with clustered imposts, and richly moulded architrave ; the western face being richer than the eastern. The chancel has had north and south aisles of two bays divided by a cylindrical column. The arch between the north aisle of the nave and that of the chancel has been a round one. The east end has a triplet of small lancet windows with wide splays, the edge of which has a torus. In the gable is a jDlain depressed round "u^indow. The piscina is in the east wall, which has also brackets and a credence. Iford Church, also between Newhaven and Lewes, has a Il'ord Church, bussex. square central tower, very plain, and crowned with a square shingled spire. There are no transepts, nor aisles to the nave, but the chancel has had a north chapel or vestry, entered from within by a segmental pointed arch on Early English imposts with square abacus. The present vestry, on the same site, is modern. There is no east window. The tower arches suggest the intention of transepts, those on the north and south sides being deep, and apparently constructed for support. Exter-
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