Appendicia et Pertinentiae; OR, PAROCHIAL FRAGMENTS RELATING TO THE PARISH OF WEST TARRING, &c. &c. &c. OR, PAROCHIAL FRAGMENTS RELATING TO THE PARISH OF WEST TARRING, AND THE CHAPELRIES OF HEENE AND DURRINGTON, IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX; CONTAINING A LIFE OF THOMAS À BECKET, AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF HIS (SO CALLED) PALACE AT WEST TARRING, SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LEARNED JOHN SELDEN, AND SELDEN'S COTTAGE AT SALVINGTON, &c. &c. &c. BY JOHN WOOD WARTER, B.D. VICAR OF WEST TARRING, &c. &c. &c. En Aid of the Restoration of the Church of West Tarring. "With Hezekiah be a good Churchman; first, repair God's house, and let it never be "A good man finds every place he treads upon holy ground; to him the world is God's LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. OMMINA 選 BODLE "Thus I entertain The antiquarian humour, and am pleased WORDSWORTH. The Excursion. "He that teaches others well, and practises contrary, is like a fair candlestick, bearing a goodly and bright taper, which sends forth light to all the house, but round about itself there is a shadow and circumstant darkness." JEREMY TAYLOR, iii. 104. "As the greatest learning of a Christian is to know the Cross of Christ, so the greatest learning of a Churchman is to build the Body of Christ." BP. REYNOLDS, iv. 309. "The hour so spent shall live, Not unapplauded in the Book of Heaven, HURDIS. The Village Curate. Preface. "Smooth is my style, my method mean and plain, In harmless fashion here I do declare Mine own rich wants, poor riches, and my care; TAYLOR the Water Poet's MOTTO. THE following circular will explain the object of the present volume : "It is proposed to restore, in the simplest way, but consistently with its original architectural features, the noble old Church of West Tarring, a sometime Peculiar of Canterbury, in the Diocese of Chichester. It is a fine old Structure, with the Nave unreduced and a striking Clerestory, the lancets being, like the ancient windows of the Temple, small without and large within. The Church, like many others in this country, is dedicated to St. Andrew. The body is of the age of Edward I. The chancel and tower (of flint work and stone quoins) of the age of Edward IV.;—so, at least, is supposed. The spire, though rather out of the perpendicular from an early strain on the timbers, rises in elegant dimensions from the tower, and is a well-known sea-mark. To the whole country round it silently points to heaven, and is an imposing object from all quarters. Connected with the parish are the well-known names of Thomas |