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The main building of West Dean College in Sussex, England is an example of using flint galleting in flint walls. Galleting is mainly used in stone masonry buildings constructed out of sandstone or flint. The technique varies depending on which of these materials is used.
Cissbury Ring is an 84.2-hectare (208-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Worthing in West Sussex. [1] [2] It is owned by the National Trust [3] and is designated a Scheduled monument for its Neolithic flint mine and Iron Age hillfort.
This wide two-storey cottage with a four-window range dates from approximately 1800. The walls are flint with red brickwork around the sash and casement windows and at the quoins, and the roof is of slate. [90] Twitten Cottage Lancing: II
The flint walls of the churchyard were listed Grade II in 1970. On the north and west sides they are believed to follow the line of the former town walls, the churchyard being in the north-west corner of the walled part of the town, and may contain material from those walls. [ 27 ]
The walls have multi-coloured, multi-layered brickwork. Coursed flint walls surround the Engineerium. The Engineerium has been described by Brighton historian Clifford Musgrave as an "unusually fine asset" for Brighton and Hove [27] and by fellow historian Ken Fines "a splendid example of Victorian industrial engineering".
Portslade Village has kept more of its antiquity and retains many elements of the downland village it once was. Many of the buildings have their original flint walls, and there are some early manor house ruins, tree-lined parks, a landmark church and a former convent. [11] Mile Oak is a newer development. Until the 1920s it was only a small ...
North Marden is a tiny village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Marden, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of Chichesteron the spur of the South Downs and on the B2141 road. In 1931 the parish had a population of 12. [1] On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished to from "Marden".
Round-tower churches are found in areas lacking normal building stone, and are therefore built of knapped flint. Corners are difficult to construct in flint, hence the thick, round walls of the towers. The churches are found in areas subject to raids from, for example, the Vikings, and were built as defensive structures, churches being added ...