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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Chicheley 122. CHICHELEY. (O.S. 6 in. v. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Laurence, in the middle of the village, is built of stone rubble; the roofs are covered with …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the cathedral of the South Saxon see was at Selsey, and it was to this see that the first Norman bishop, Stigand, … chapter seal 3 of Chichester shows a preConquest church and the legend ' Templum Justicie' below, the design of which … we are told that he built the church from the ground, 4 and again that he had newly built ( a novo fecerat) the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… at Chichester, of secular foundation, grew up gradually and somewhat irregularly. Before the time of Bishop Ralph de Luffa (10911123), the bishops and their priests probably lived in the buildings vacated by … minster. Luffa reorganised the cathedral establishment and appointed the office of dean, and either he or Bishop …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Chichester cathedral The central crossing, tower and transepts CENTRAL CROSSING The CENTRAL CROSSING is 33 ft. … workmanship of Sir Gilbert Scott's rebuilding of 18616, and said to be precise copies of the original details based … After the fall of the spire, the debris was examined and note taken of the original mouldings and carvings, which, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… THE LADY CHAPEL is 77 ft. long by 20 ft. wide internally and of five bays. The walling and buttresses of the three west bays are those of the … chapel. This building, of three 16 ft. bays, was vaulted, and is therefore the earliest example of vaulting in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Chichester cathedral The nave NAVE The NAVE (average length and breadth 154 ft. by 26 ft.) is of eight bays. It is in the … bays were probably built later than the four eastern, and their piers, the two westernmost in particular, are of … side of the screen, and of St. Mary on the south. 7 The parish altar of St. Peter must have been at or near the nave …
A History of the County of Sussex
… city was, until 1845, a peculiar of the Dean of Chichester and so was outside the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Chichester, saving on the occasion of an … Saints in the Pallant, belonging to the archbishop. At the parish altar of St. Peter in the nave of the cathedral …
A History of the County of Sussex
… use in 17045, but the chapel had long been disused as such and had later been converted into a barn, and was then in decay. 3 The mastership was later used to … 5 persons, to be appointed by the vestry of the parish of St. Pancras, to be trustees. The net income is …
A History of the County of Sussex
… West Street, was begun in 1850 in the 14th-century style, and was consecrated in 1852. It is built of stone with a tiled roof, and consists of a nave of four bays with aisles and a chancel … from 1781 to 1803 they are registered in the St. Andrew's Parish Register. St. Martin's was evidently shut up as …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Bishop of Chichester, stands at the corner of South Street and Market Avenue. It was built in 1855 in the 13th-century … style, as it is said, from designs of the younger Pugin, and is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and a … that the Friends had built a meeting-house in St. Andrew's parish, near 'the Cockpitt house.' Add. MS. 39427, fol. 151. …