Seaward Sussex / The South Downs from End to End

ctual beginnings of the town may antedate the Romans, but of this we know nothing. It was to the British chief Cogi, whose name was Romanized into Cogidubnus, tha

med and allied himself to them and in return received the uniq

between modern Bosham and Portsmouth-and the adapted and straightened ancient trackway running parallel to the sea and serving the settlements and ports east a

St. Andrew's churchyard were found to have the coffins resting on a tessellated pavement. Old buildings in various parts of the town, notably St. Olave's church, hav

Park. This slab was discovered while digging the foundations of the Council Chamber and after being kept at Goodwood for many years has bee

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ime during the middle of the last century around the question of the identity of this individual, the results

sey peninsula. During the Conqueror's reign Chichester regained some of its former dignity when the seat of the Sussex see was removed hither from Selsey. At the same time the town was presente

ster in 1642; after ten days the city fell and much ill work, especiall

e for the exploration of West Sussex Chichester is much better than one of the smaller towns. (I am not now advising that adventurous traveller who, fearing not

pposed to have been for a time the adapted church of St. Peter's monastery which stood on or near the south-west corner of the city cross-roads. Bisho

ctly equidistant from the west porch and the end of the Lady Chapel. The most effective, if not the most picturesque view, is from the north, where the sturdy campanile makes a good fo

Minster and St. Paul's, are actually excelled themselves by Manchester, which also has four aisles). The nave and the inner aisles are Norman, the outer being Geometrical; these were added to make room for the various chapels and shrines which were found necessary as the dev

e Collins tomb and the Arundel chantry containing the altar-tomb of Richard Fitz-Alan and his countess. At the end of this aisle is an unknown female effigy conjectured to be Maud of Arundel (1270). Some good modern stained glass will have been noticed in

d-screen in memory of Archdeacon Walker. The finely carved throne and stalls in the choir are also modern but are in excellent taste and keepi

m the north choir aisle. It contains several treasures, notably the service book of Hermann, Archbishop of Cologne, once the property of Cranmer and bearing his autograph. From this book the Reformer adapted many phrases for the Book of Common Prayer. There are several interesting relics from the stone coffins discovered under the choir in 1829, including a papal absolution cross, an abraxas ring and a twelfth-century silver chalice and paten. These

n memory of Dean Burgon (1888). The pictures on the west wall are by Bernhardi and represent Ceadwalla giving Selsey to St. Wilfrid and the confirmation made by Henry VIII to Bishop Sherborne. Part of the transept is used as a consistory court. The sacristy is on the west side and on the east is St. Catherine's Chapel. In the wall of the

arket Cross, and of Bishop Day (1556). The columns of Purbeck marble which grace this part of the cathedral are

(right) Bishop Seffrid II, the builder of the Early English portions of the Cathedial. This beautiful chapel was finished in the early fourteenth century and in the eighteenth was considered unworthy of repa

with the revived canons of good taste no opposition was encountered. It may be of interest to quote an anonym

ings on the groining of the choir destroyed by the whitewash, the said gentleman had the archivolt mouldings and all the lines of the building which were in relief, tastefully coloured in yellow ochre. The name of the perpetrator of this outrage on good taste and good

lumps of chalk, and the flat spaces within the heads of the Norman arches of the nave, which are sculptured with scales and flowers, are almost reduced to a plane surface.... The removal of this rubbish would be a work of time; it should be gradually and effec

as the object of its erection, to protect from accident the spectators of the ancient processions, has ceased to exist. Since the Reformation a great portion of the nave has been fitted up with pews, the congregation adjourning from the choir to the nave to hear the serm

ng details of the exterior of the cathedral. The Bishop's Palace is at the west end; it has an Early English chapel in which is an interestin

the central tower of the main building from the weight of the eight bells, most of them ancient, with quaintly worded and

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by way of the Canon Lane Gate in South Street. On the right is the Vicar's Close and, farther on, the De

I. The clock was presented by Dame Elizabeth Farringdon in 1724 as "an hourly memento of her goodwill to the city"; it has not, however, added to the beauty of the cross. The central co

nd in the walls, and some authorities declare the south door to be actual Roman work; it is undoubtedly the oldest build

ounty. It supports eight poor persons who live in tiny two-roomed dwellings round the sides of the great hall. At the end of this is the Decorated chapel separated from the remainder of the building by an open screen. The main portion of the building is Early E

originally the chapel of the Grey Friars. It has a very fine Early English window; the sedilia should

for the most part constructed of flints and undoubtedly have a Roman base. Some lines of fortifications about a mile north of the

s has a Roman pavement at a depth of about five feet. The poet Collins is buried within the church.

ote should be made of the pottery removed from a British tomb at Walberton; also of the cu

treets. In West Street is the Prebendal school at which Selden commenced his education. This street has a very fine specimen of seve