67. Cowfold.—In the printed copy of (A.D. 1291) occurs "Ecclia de Confande," which I conceive to signify Cowfold, conjecturing the word to have been originally written Coufande, or more probably Coufaude. In deciphering an old MS. it is no difficult matter to mistake u for n especially to a person totally unacquainted with the place intended, and therefore little likely to understand what the name should be. In Cowfold church is a magnificent Brass of Tho. Nelond, prior of Lewes, who died A.D. 1433. Cartwright's work contains a plate. This memorial is highly commended in (Monum. Brasses, 104, 128, 138.)
68. Crawley.—In (Mag. Brit.) it is asserted, that Crawley is in old records called Crowell; and accordingly in (A.D. 1291) we find Crowell annexed to Slaugham, which is explained by an entry in (Val. Eccl.), "Slaugham cum capella de Crawley." It however appears rather singular, that, so late as the sixteenth century, the church of Crawley should be deemed only a chapel. In Ecton's Liber Valorum, which is a modernized reprint of Val. Eccl. (2d ed. 1723), Slaugham and Crawley stand separate, and both as rectories. They are so represented likewise in the (Clergy List), and under different patrons.
69. Crowhurst.—The nave of this church was rebuilt in 1794. In a large three-light window in the tower are considerable remains of coloured glass. South of the church, behind the house of Court Lodge farm, are vestiges of very substantial buildings. There is a large window with a cinque-foiled head; below the room, to which that belongs, is another apartment with a groined roof; and there are remains of another "handsome groined roof." (Horsfield's Suss. I, 434.) The mouldings of the window above noticed are particularly good.
70. Cuckfield.—A church of chancel, nave with north and south aisles ranging eastward with the chancel, north and south porches, a small additional chapel north of the northern chancel, and square western tower with a high shingled spire. The tower is embattled, with a plain corbel table, the intervals trefoiled: this part is E.E., the diagonal buttresses being additions. Whatever may be the date of the outer walls of the church, they have Perp. windows inserted. The small north chapel is Perp. The clerestory windows are quatrefoils, all closed except one. Of the roof the tie-beams are moulded, with carving in the spandrils between them and the wall-plates. The piers on the south side of the nave have E.E. mouldings, those opposite and the chancel
