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ARCHITECTURAL NOTICES. 143 The tracery above the outer lights appears imperfect. It may be remarked that these small fohated circles not unfrequeiitly appear in Perpendicular tracery in this county. A comparison between the east windows of Poynings, West Tarring (near Worthing), and Alfriston (a church w^hich w^e will presently notice), will be interesting. In the point of the east gable is a quatrefoiled circle. The central tower is plain and massive ; the parapet embattled ; the belfry window is narrow, of one light, ogeed and trefoiled, without any label. A similar light occurs in the north and south faces a little below the level of the point of the transept gables, to the east of the north transept. Poynings Church, North Elevation. and west of the south transept roof. The masonry is flint- work, the angles both salient and re-entering, the edges of the windows, parapet, &c., being dressed with stone. The flints in general are chipped, so as to present a smooth front, but they are not squared, though they are disposed in tolerably regular layers. The excej)tions are, the east side of the south transept, and the north porch. In the former the work is much more irregular, and the base-moulding, wdiich runs round the rest of the church, altogether disappears. In the latter the flints are squared and fitted close together. This porch I therefore look upon as a later addition, as the mouldings of the door have a different character from the other doors of the church, and the angles which it forms with the wall of the nave are not dressed, like all the other similar angles, with stone. With regard to the east wall of the south transept, it may be observed, that however completely a church was rebuilt, if it occupied the same site, some portion of the older building