Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . ch is evidently by the same craftsmen. So, also, are parts of Bishopston is little more to say about Steyning Church. The south doorway, sadly battered, is of this late Norman period. Tall and narrow, of two continuous orders, it is singularly unworthy of the fine church toj which it forms the only public The typical Norman doorway is a feature practically non-existent inI Sussex, and the few examples are relatively plain and on| a small scale—a fact not easy to account for in a
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . ch is evidently by the same craftsmen. So, also, are parts of Bishopston is little more to say about Steyning Church. The south doorway, sadly battered, is of this late Norman period. Tall and narrow, of two continuous orders, it is singularly unworthy of the fine church toj which it forms the only public The typical Norman doorway is a feature practically non-existent inI Sussex, and the few examples are relatively plain and on| a small scale—a fact not easy to account for in a county| which otherwise contains much fine work of this period,j This Steyning doorway has perhaps lost an outer order or label. The inner order has a quirked hollow, and the! present outer order a roll clasped by V-shaped tongues,j The door itself, with mutilated hinges, is probably coeval. The porch, docked of a once-existing upper story, isi of late fourteenth-century date, with a good two-centred 13 There is a small blocked north doorway of fourteenth or fifteenth centuryj
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