Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . urn-ing. Around this are the Pel-ham Buckle and a cross, alter-nately. The roof timbers, whichare of oak, and very substantial, were the produce, pro-bably, of the Priory estate. The Chapel was a square room, some thirty yards ormore to the east of the present house. Its length is thirty-eight feet, by about twenty feet in width, and its walls stillrise above the surface of the soil, in one or two parts, morethan two feet. But though it is now detached, there isample evidence to show that it was once a pa
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . urn-ing. Around this are the Pel-ham Buckle and a cross, alter-nately. The roof timbers, whichare of oak, and very substantial, were the produce, pro-bably, of the Priory estate. The Chapel was a square room, some thirty yards ormore to the east of the present house. Its length is thirty-eight feet, by about twenty feet in width, and its walls stillrise above the surface of the soil, in one or two parts, morethan two feet. But though it is now detached, there isample evidence to show that it was once a part of the Priorybuildings, for, between it and the house, extensive founda-tions are still to be traced, as well as across the garden tothe south of the Chapel; and, at the east end of the orchard,parts of this garden cannot be cultivated, in consequenceof the obstructions which the subterraneous walls are the remains of what appears to have been a longpond, but which I should have called a part of a moat if Icould have found elsewhere any traces of its continuance, xm. x. THE COLLEGE AND PKIOBY OE HASTINGS, which I was unable to do. On the east side of the flowergarden in front of the house, and forming a fence to it, arean oast-house and a stable under one roof, the walls of whichare very thick, and evidently constructed of some of thedebris of the old Priory. The oast-house has been lately re-built, but the stable is of rude workmanship, and of someantiquity. Built into it I discovered fragments of the stonemullions of the Chapel windows. One piece had evidently ,been a part of the sill of one of the windows, as the holeremained in it in which an iron stanchion had been fixed. On the east side of these, running jeast and west, is a cart-shed., inthe back wall of which is the jpointed-arch doorway here repre-sented. In the stable, too, arethe remains of an ancient en-trance doorway. Among the loosestones of a detached and ruinouspiece of wall, just to the southof
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