corresponding in position, the hood moulding has no return, and that one end of each, which alone is perfect, terminates in an ornament resembling one belonging to the E.E. style. A north door is bricked up. The chancel and tower arches are very massive, the latter very lofty; the usual characteristic of the square Perp. towers of the district. Though the tower has ogée-headed windows, it is later than and inferior to that in the adjoining parish of East Hoathly; which tower has similar windows. The porch is modern, of wood; but a weather moulding remaining in the wall shows, that there had been an older one. The west window in the tower is Perp. The hood of the west door finishes in the Pelham buckle.
Laughton Place, a castellated mansion of brick, erected by Sir Will. Pelham, A.D. 1534, is now a farm-house. (Horsfield's Lew. II, 157.) Halland House, an ancient residence of the Pelham family, stands upon the boundary of the parish, partly in East Hoathly. (Horsfield.)
154. Lavant.—This name, not Woollavington as supposed by Dallaway, is intended by the "Loventone" of (D.B.); it being described as in "Silletone," that is Singleton, hundred, whereas Woollavington is in that of Rotherbridge.
East Lavant—Church contains a gravestone with a cross upon it, and an inscription "in the Longobardic character." (Dallaway.)
155. Lavant, Mid.—This place is presumed to be the "Ecclia de Middlonence," in Boxgrove deanery, of (A.D. 1291). The church was originally very small. The only ancient windows remaining are two lancets in the chancel, and a very small round-headed one in the south wall of the nave, of which the frame seems not to have been intended to receive glass. Some paintings upon the wall were recently discovered, apparently of two different dates. That, which is supposed to have been the earliest, represented the burial of some saint, or distinguished personage, whose corpse, tied in a shroud nearly in the shape of a fish, was lying in the foreground, and behind was a bishop, or other dignified ecclesiastic. Compare the Note on Leigh, Kent.
156. Leominster.—This church comprises western tower, nave with north aisle and porch, and an unusually long chancel. The tower is Tr. Norm., exhibiting two doors under pointed arches, which however may be insertions. The nave and aisle are of the same date, except the south wall of the nave, which is E.E. In the exterior of the west end of the aisle appears a large
