of this church, and Mr. Dawson Turner[1] in his notice of Yainville, describe the towers as "central," which appears to me to be an incorrect use of terms. In general effect the towers of both churches stand, not in the centre, but at the east end of the buildings ; and I need not inform the people of Newhaven of the Irish sailor's joke, that their church sails "stern foremost." Since I have mentioned Yainville church, it may be interesting to remark, that the apsis of that building, with its peculiarly high-pitched roof, so strongly resembles the upper portion of the much-debated Round Towers of Ireland, that Mr. Turner concludes that the latter were "undoubtedly of Norman origin."
The following is Mr. Petit's architectural account of New- haven church, illustrated (by the liberality of the Committee of the Archæological Institute) with the original woodcuts, as they appear in vol. vi. p. 138, &c. of the Archæological Journal :—
"The tower is extremely massive in two stages, of which
East Window of Tower.
the upper appears to be an addition, though both are Norman.
- ↑ Tour in Normandy, i. p. 134.
