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Only the motte of Chichester Castle survives and that is about one-quarter of its original size and deformed from landscaping. The remains are found in Priory Park. Significant sections of the Roman Walls, albeit extensively modified over the centuries, still exist as do a number of the fourth century bastions although not to the original height.

None of the town gates have survived. Chichester Castle and Roman Walls Layout. The town walls were not added until the third century by which time Chichester was a flourishing settlement.

Accordingly the walls wrapped around the existing town hence the irregular polygonal layout. The best way to discover this glorious building is to come along and join one of our guided tours but for now - here is a little history The monastery founded by St Wilfrid in near the coast in Selsey, 10 miles from Chichester, was to become the first Cathedral in Sussex. Following the Norman Conquest of , it was deemed by the Council of London that cathedrals situated in remote locations should be moved to more populous areas and so, in , the See of Chichester was established and the bishopric moved to the old Roman city of Chichester.

Using stone from Quarr on the Isle of Wight, construction began in on a new Cathedral, overseen by Stigand, the first Norman bishop. In its place, Bishop Seffrid II built a stone-vaulted roof and remodelled much of the building. The cathedral was then re-consecrated in The scenes take as their subject a history of the Cathedral in miniature, from Selsey to Chichester, and the current monarch of the age, Henry VIII, confirming the rights and royal protection of the bishopric.

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South East. South East Coast. South East England. The house came into the possession of William Duke, a solicitor, who occupied it in the middle of the 19th century. The Westhampnett Rural District Council acquired the house for use as an office in The house is of two stories and basement, built of red brick with cut brick quoins and dressings. Like Westgate House, it has been claimed to be the work of Sir Christopher Wren, but without any justification.

The west front has seven window bays and a central doorway with plinth, string and cornice, all in brick and rather heavy. The windows are tall but of good proportion, with wood frames containing sashes flush with the wall-face, and with carved heads and keystones, each bearing an emblem rose, oak, thistle, fleur-de-lis and harp.

The doorway is an excellent piece of work, having two Corinthian pilasters carrying an entablature, of which the top member runs into the stringcourse and is capped by a beautifully carved curved cornice.

The chimneys are square, simply panelled, and linking into the panelled parapet on the south side. The east or garden front is symmetrical without quoins; the arched staircase window has two window bays on each side, below which is the garden doorway.

Two of the windows on the first floor have curved iron verandas. An additional story was built on the north-west corner later in the 18th century, traditionally by Henry Peckham, as a lookout to see his shipping in Chichester Harbour. The west front has a paved forecourt, and the house stands back from the road behind a low brick retaining wall with stone coping, on which are iron railings of good design.

At the entrance are two brick piers on stone plinths of elongated proportion, crowned by the stone crest of the Peckham family, an ostrich proper. The piers formerly carried iron gates, now removed, but the overpiece still remains as an iron grill, bearing the monogram H. The room on the south side, now the board room, was formerly two rooms, the panelling and fireplaces of which are later insertions. The committee room, at the north-west corner, was formerly the dining room; it is panelled throughout and has a late18th-century wooden fireplace of delicate design; the mantelpiece is supported on fluted Corinthian pilasters.

Behind this room were formerly the kitchens. The main staircase is a good example of the period, being of two flights broken by a landing; the handrail and turned balusters are richly carved and moulded with newel-posts of Corinthian columns, finishing on a curved step. The walls are panelled to handrail level. The first floor has a main landing panelled to the ceiling.

Facing the stairs is a wooden partition having a central doorway in an arched surround, flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The central room retains the original panelling to the ceiling, but the fireplace has been replaced by a later marble surround, with a good 18th-century grate. Of the rooms on the south, the east has a good lateth-century marble fireplace; no doubt the south windows were blocked at this time, possibly on account of the window tax. The house immediately to the north of Pallant House contains a 15th-century groined cellar and a fine 18th-century staircase.

The County Court Office, on the south side of the West Pallant, is one of the earlier houses of the city, built probably at the beginning of the 17th century. It is of three stories with a parapet and cornice above, and was refaced on the north side at the end of the 17th century. The east side shows a double gable, probably timber-framed, but the whole house has now been plastered. Internally the building has been much altered; the staircase is late 18th century, but some rooms exhibit panelling of the early 17th century, notably that on the west of the entrance, where the modern fireplace has an elaborately carved wooden overmantel of the same date.

The eastern part of the south-east quarter, now called New Town, was formerly the site of the precincts of the Black Friars, or Friars Preachers, and hence it is still extra-parochial.

It is bounded by East Street on the north, the wall on the east and south, and Baffin's Lane on the west. The friars obtained a site here before when Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, released to them the rent of it. In Queen Eleanor gave them a further plot in East Street, lying between the land of Juliana, sister of John the Chaplain son of Nicholas the goldsmith, on the west, and Pouke or Goblin Lane, which probably ran down beside the wall, on the east.

Andrew in the Pallant to the city wall to the east, and also another street running under the city wall from East Gate to South Gate probably Pouke Lane , upon condition that they made a new road from St. Andrew's in the Pallant to the city wall on the south, fn. Tuffnell, but at the beginning of the 19th century Gen. Crosbie sold it in building plots. Foundations of the Friary were found in building houses here, and the chapel of St.

John is said to stand on the site of the Friary church. Many wills refer to burials in the church, and in William Cooper desired to be buried 'under the yew tree in the churchyard' there. North Street has always formed the chief administrative area of the city. Like the west end of East Street, the street at the south end, where the Market was held, has been encroached upon. The houses in the street are principally of the 18th century, and here particularly may be noticed the interesting series of bow windows, so typical of Chichester architecture.

The main hall is of brick, apparently refaced, but the street front is of stone. Another story has been added of recent years to house the Technical Institute, which is approached by a doorway formed through one of the niches; in the other niche is the Diamond Jubilee Memorial Fountain presented by Alderman Ballard.

The Council House, on the same side of the street, was erected by subscription in to replace an earlier timber-framed structure. It is built of brick with stone dressings, and is of two stories.

The house consists of an open arcading leading to the hall, beyond which were the kitchens. On the north side of the hall is the staircase to a square landing, off which were the various civic chambers. The central part is brought forward and divided into three bays, carried on solid brick arches, by stone threequarter columns of the Ionic order, supporting an entablature and panelled parapet.

The central panel bears a stone inscription and is surmounted by a lion; and below is an arched window flanked by smaller windows. The wings are carried on further arches. The Council Chamber, over the west front, is entered from the west door of the landing. It is a well-proportioned room lit by three windows in the west wall, and one each in the north and south walls.

There is a panelled wooden dado and a richly decorated bracketed cornice of plaster 14 feet above floor level, springing from which is a large cove carrying a coffered ceiling. At either end is a highly decorated wooden fireplace with pedimented overmantel panelled to contain a portrait; one of these fireplaces would appear to have been rebuilt. In the room are wood panels, giving a list of mayors from and various municipal bequests. The furniture has been renewed except the table, which is original.

The walls are lined with portraits. The Assembly Rooms, of brick, were added to the east from the designs of James Wyatt in ; the approach to the main room is by way of a staircase on the south side, or through an ante-room, formerly a civic apartment. It is a spacious room of three bays, lit by three windows on the north and two on the south. Between the windows, the walls project into the room and have niches containing classical statuary, beneath which are the fireplaces; the ends are similarly treated, the east being apsidal with a raised dais.

The double doors south and west are well treated, but the dado, rail and cornice are all rather heavy. Further additions in a similar style were made at the south in , which materially altered the plan. The offices of the County Education Committee are on the west side of the street no.

Probably adjoining the church of St. Peter the Less, on the east side of North Street, stood the early Gildhall, the history of which is dealt with later. The houses in the north-east quarter are mostly of the 18th century, some perhaps with new fronts disguising an older building.

Martin's Square is an interesting earlyth-century timberframed structure with gable ends and upper story of slight projection and tiled roof. Later in the 17th century, probably about , the house was entirely refaced with brick and stone dressings by Sir John Farrington d. The south front is of two stories capped by a heavy wooden cornice and a central doorway with two sash windows on each side.

The doorway is of gauged brick with a slight cornice, thrown forward to form a porch in the thickness of the wall. In the keystone are the Farrington arms quarterly, argent, a cheveron between three leopards' faces gules; and gules three cinquefoils argent.

In the middle of the 18th century the house was in the possession of Till Hollier, the collector of customs, who had his office and bonding warehouse in the rear of the house. Martin's Square is St. The Hospital of St. Mary is now situated on the east side of St. Martin's Square. The site was formerly occupied by the Grey Friars, until, in , the Friars moved to the Castle precincts, when it was presented to the hospital. The buildings consist of a gatehouse on the street front, an aisled infirmary hall, two-thirds of which only remain standing, and a chapel at the eastern end.

In spite of its incompleteness it is one of the most important and characteristic examples of medieval hospital architecture in the country. The original size of the hall would have been ft. The chapel measures 45 ft. The chapel is divided by buttresses in the north and south walls into two bays, with two windows in the western and one in the eastern bay, making a series of three equally spaced two-light windows on each side.

The windows are of two designs, the traceried head in one being formed of a circle of five small circles with trefoil cusping, and in the other of a quatrefoil set within a pierced triangular cusped opening over each light. The lights themselves have trefoil heads. The reveals have wide splays and chamfered rear arches. The east window is of five lights and is modern, but it is a reconstruction of the original design. The chapel is connected to the hall by a stone twocentred arch of three moulded orders, the jambs having triple shafts with moulded capitals and bases, the abacus being prolonged to take the outer orders.

The archmoulds die into the characteristic cylindrical form, used in the early 14th century, above the capitals. The roof is of seven-sided waggon form, with trusses and moulded tie-beams in the centre of the structural bays, and a moulded wall plate. All the surfaces are panelled with plaster between moulded ribs, and carved bosses at certain of the intersections.

An elaborate contemporary screen of eight compartments, the two centre compartments forming doors, separates the hall from the chapel. Each compartment has in its upper part four open arches on banded shafts, with capitals and bases, carrying tracery within a triangular head, each gable being finished with a crocketed finial and flanked by pinnacles.

The uppermost member is a heavily moulded beam, with perhaps later curved scroll-work beneath it. Backing on to the screen are six stalls, and there is a return range of nine stalls on either side, making twenty-four in all. The stalls have carved misericordes and the north and south ranges have backs and return ends with arcading on shafts similar to the screen. In the south wall of the chapel are three sedilia, with shafts and canopies, each being formed of a twocentred arch with ogee point under a gable, with traceried filling and finial of carved foliage.

A piscina of similar design is in the same wall towards the east. The hall is practically of timber construction, the main weight of the roof being taken by the oak posts which mark the aisles.

The external walls are about 7 ft. There are traces in the walls of the small stone windows that served the original cubicles. In the east wall there is a two-light window with quatrefoil head, similar to the chapel windows, each side of the chapel arch.

The west wall is modern. The roof is of open timber construction throughout and resembles that of the contemporary kitchen in the Bishop's Palace.