Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...partly despoiled of its brass, commemorates Edward Shurley, the next possessor of the estate, who died in 1579. But the most attractive memorial is to Sir John Shurley (ob. 1631), with recumbent effigies of himself and his two wives, and kneeling figures of his nine children. Of the second wife Dorothy, daughter of George Goring, Esq., of Danny, and widow of Sir Henry Bowyer, of Cuckfield, the epitaph states that she possessed "a merite beyond most of her time; for her purse was open to a prophet's name; her pitty was the clothing of the poore; her piety the mother of her practice; her devotions were her daily offerings to God; her mercy sure against condemnation; and all her minutes were but steppes to heaven." There is also a plain tomb to Robert, son of Sir John Shurley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, with the date 1647. In this church was discovered, in 1775, by the Rev. William Clarke, the tombstone of Gundrada de Warenne, daughter of William the Conqueror, who was buried in Lewes Priory, but whose memorial is supposed to have been brough thither at the Dissolution by John Shurley, Esq. (See Southover). L EYMER Church is pleasantly situated to the north of the South Downs, 5 about three-quarters of a mile from Hassock's Gate on the London and W.KXa Brighton railway. It is thus described in "Hussey's Churches." It consists of "chancel, nave, south porch, and west tower. The chancel is apsidal, not merely rounded at the extremity, but the curve commences from the junction of the nave. The chancel arch is round, the piers being square blocks of masonry, with abaci at the spring of the arch. One small Norman window is visible, though closed; the others are Decorated insertions. The tower, which with the rest of the building, has been...
