which encourage the formation of protecting shelves, capable of averting the violence of the

waves.

This south view was copied from a drawing in the Burrell collection, taken in the year 1761.

PLATE XC.

View of Brighton, from the Church.

THIS west view of the church and town of Brighton, the Pavilion, and Chain-pier, was taken on the summit of a hill, commanding a fine prospect of the town and sea. The tops of the Pavilion are seen in shadow; near it, in the distance, is the Suspension Chain-pier, projecting from the cliffs. The church stands on a very elevated situation, west of the old town: it is an ancient structure, built probably soon after the Conquest. Near the south door, in the church-yard, are the remains of a cross, of very great antiquity.

Brighton has been visited by storms and inundations, which at various times, have greatly injured the town, and destroyed the shipping: by the artificial contrivances, however, of the present age, which are called Groynes, it is now considered perfectly secure.

The foundation of the suspension chain-pier, consists of four clumps of piles, two hundred and fifty-eight feet distant, driven eight feet into the rock, and rising fourteen feet above high water, at the highest spring-tides. The first three clumps contain twenty piles each; the fourth, which is in the shape of a T, contains one hundred and fifty perpendicular and diagonal piles, strongly braced, the cross part of which is paved with two hundred tons of Purbeck stone, and beneath which galleries and flights of steps are constructed for the convenience of embarkation. The pier, which has a neat cast-iron railing on each side, is eleven hundred and thirty-four feet long, and thirteen feet wide; and is supported by eight chains, each chain containing one hundred and seventeen links, each ten feet long, six feet and a quarter in circumference, and weighing one hundred and twelve pounds. These chains are made fast to the cliff. From the cliff the chains, four at each side, pass over a tower of cast-iron, (one on each clump of piles), with a dip of eighteen feet, secured at the outer clump of piles, and from which are suspended three hundred and sixty-two rods, connected by an iron bar, on which the platform rests. The esplanade, from the Steyne to the beginning of the pier, is twelve hundred and fifty feet long, on which carriages pass.

This specimen of human ingenuity, is the work

of Captain S. Brown, R. N., and was opened to the public in the month of November, 1823.

PLATE XCI.

South side of the Font in Brighton Church.

THIS Font is said to have been brought to England by William the Conqueror; and a singular evidence in favour of this opinion is, that part of the border surrounding it, is of the same pattern as that on Gundred's tomb.—(See plate 79.) The Font is two feet four inches high, and the side five inches thick, and eight feet four inches in circumference, being carved out of one solid block of Caen stone, and must be looked upon as a very interesting relique of antiquity.

PLATE XCII.

East, West, and North sides of the Font in
Brighton Church.

ON the different compartments of this font are represented, in relief, the Last Supper, and various miracles of our Saviour. The carved work was universally admired; but in the year 1745, the

churchwardens thought proper to introduce their own names thereon; which instance of vanity and bad taste was something detrimental to the ancient sculpture; it appears principally to have effaced part of a foliated carving for a plinth. These two plates give so good an idea of the figures sculptured on the font, that a further description is not required.

PLATE XCIII.

South View of the Chalybeate Spring, Brighton.

THIS spring is situated about half a mile west from Brighton, at Wick, in the parish of Hove, which place is seen at the right of the plate: the further distance is Worthing. The building which encloses this well is neat, and affords opportunity for a pleasing walk to visit it. It is the property of the Rev. Mr. Scutt, who is lord of the

manor.

PLATE XCIV.

Interior of the Chalybeate Spring, Brighton.

THE waters of this Spring having been analized, were found to be strongly impregnated with iron; they are now therefore recommended by medical men, as a powerful tonic.

PLATE XCV.

New Shoreham Church.

THIS church is of considerable magnitude, and has a square tower of Norman architecture, raised, not in the centre of the edifice, but approximating to the porch, which is a pointed Gothic arch; at the foot of this front of the main church, a wide Saxon pillar, with a large capital, corresponds at the angle with another column less perfect, and somewhat imbedded in the ground, situated at the point of intersection with the transcept; these columns support a carved semi-circle of great dimensions; another of these wide arches is traced on the side of the transcept, and evidences that the church was enlarged, or rebuilt upon the walls of an ancient structure. The other end of the church, with great buttresses stretching over the side aisle to the nave, is of modern Gothic construction, and of more common architecture.

The manor of New Shoreham belongs to the Duke of Norfolk; there is no manor-house, but there are courts leet held yearly, and a court baron occasionally. The right of voting for a representative of this borough, was, in consequence of corrupt practices having been discovered, extended