Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . ive ravages of fire and sword to which the town hasbeen subjected ; therefore, if the church had been built ofthe same material, it is somewhat singular that it shouldhave formed an exception to the general rule, and that ailremains of it should have been swept away. The originalof the present building is supposed to have been erectedabout the end of the twelfth century, since which time itlias been shorn of much of its pristine beauty. The foreooing are the views
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . ive ravages of fire and sword to which the town hasbeen subjected ; therefore, if the church had been built ofthe same material, it is somewhat singular that it shouldhave formed an exception to the general rule, and that ailremains of it should have been swept away. The originalof the present building is supposed to have been erectedabout the end of the twelfth century, since which time itlias been shorn of much of its pristine beauty. The foreooing are the views of the late Mr. WilliamHolloway, Ryes favourite iiistorian, but Mr. Harold Sands,—to wliom we are much indebted for various correc-tions in the present edition of our Guide—says there is noevidence of the erection of any Church in the Sands is firmly of opinion that the present Churchocc upics the site of the original one. It contains Normanvork of a period anterior to 1189; Early English, orLancet, style of period 1189 to 1272 ; Decorated, of periodbetween 1272 and 1377 ! ^^ Perpendicular, from 1377. GUIDE TO RYE. 21 to 1546. If, Mr. Sands says, there were a Saxon Church,in all probability it stood on the same .site, and would bereplaced by a post-Conquest larger Norman one. Jeake, a historian, who wrote in 1678, says in hisdescription of the town, it is beautified with a largechurch called St. Mary, the goodliest edifice of thatkind in Kent and Sussex, the Cathedrals excepted. The common seal of the town of Rye bears on itsreverse a view of the church, which in its general outlineresembles the present structure ; but in its architecturalembellishments there is a marked difference, which issufficient to convince one that the original has not beenutterly destroyed, and at the .same time that the latter farexceeded the former in external beauty. According to thisseal, the old church had a tower and spire, a nave, and achoir, with aisles to both the latt
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