dit archiepiscopo l et xiv solidos et ii denaria, et archidiacono xx solidos. De hoc manerio tenet Vitalis de archiepiscopo iii solins et unum jugum et xii acras terræ, et ibi habet v Caracas, et xxix bordarios, et v servos, et vii salinas de xxv solidis et iv denariis. Ibi est æcclesia et una parva dena siluæ. Intra totum valet xiv libras et vi solidos et vi denaria." (D.B.) Hence it appears that the manor was extensive and valuable, possessing two churches in different portions, and containing some considerable quantity of wood; but I am utterly unable to ascertain any place in the neighbourhood of Reculver which can be the Nortone of (D. B.)
240. Offham.—This small church consists of chancel, nave, south porch, and square tower standing north of the west end of the chancel. The latter contains a trefoil-headed piscina, with a decayed wooden shelf. Opposite, in the north wall, is a plain, pointed-arched recess, of the usual size of a sedile. The chancel appears to be E.E. There are a very few small remnants of coloured glass. From arches visible in the exterior of the south wall, and broken remains of the continuation of that of the east end of the nave, there has been a south aisle. On the exterior of the north wall of the chancel is a wide buttress, shallow as if Norm., though the chancel windows are E.E. The lower portion of the tower looks older than the upper, from the interior seeming to be E.E., or perhaps Tr. Norm., and the top is clearly of later date. In the north wall of the nave is a small Norm, window. The north door is built up. The west gable contains a round window quatrefoiled. The church contains a little Dec. work. The wide buttress on the outside of the chancel, noticed above, resembles that already described at Hever, in this county, on the southern side of that church. Though the interior of the buildings may be too well coated with plaster and whitewash to present any apparent indications of an opening beneath, it seems probable, that those buttress-like projections were constructed to contain the stairs leading to the roodloft; in which case the frame, mentioned as visible in the Hever example, would be that of a small window to light the passage. The approach to the roodloft in Earningham Church was, I am assured, on the exterior of the north wall, and the stairs are still in use; but, from the altered state of the edifice, this circumstance escaped observation when that place was visited, and therefore is not alluded to in the Note on Earningham. Offham Church is named in a document of 16th of K. Edward III,
