AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF The Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, HELD AT CHICHESTER, JULY 12TH TO 19TH, 1853. WITH A GENERAL NOTICE OF MEMOIRS COMMUNICATED TO THE SECTIONS, AND A DETAILED CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES AND WORKS OF ART EXHIBITED IN THE TEMPORARY MUSEUM. LONDON: Published for the Archæological Institute, 26, SUFFOLK STREET, PALL MALL EAST, BY JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCLVI. PREFACE. THE production of the following brief Memorials of the Annual Meeting held in Sussex may appear to claim some preliminary observations; frequent regret having been expressed by Members of the Archæological Institute that it should have proved impracticable to continue the Series of the Annual Volumes. On the present occasion, the possibility of offering to the Society such record of the Transactions at the Chichester Meeting has been wholly precluded. Before the close of the proceedings, arrangements had been made, by the respective authors of several most important memoirs then contributed, for their publication in a separate quarto volume. These comprised, The Architectural History of Chichester Cathedral, by Professor Willis; of Boxgrove Priory Church, by Mr. Petit; of New Shoreham Church, by Mr. Sharpe, with the Dissertation on the Church Architecture of the County of Sussex, by the same talented author. These valuable contributions to the History of Medieval Architecture, thus combined, will form a volume of larger size than the publications of the Institute, and adapted to the requisite illustrations on a large scale. It may be hoped that the long-expected completion of this Monograph of Sussex Ecclesiology may not be deferred.* In regard to several valuable communications read in the Sections, illustrative of local History and Antiquities, the chief part, it will be remembered, had been prepared by Members of the Sussex Archæological Society, and were originally destined to be read at their Annual Meeting, and to be published in their periodical transactions. In the full spirit of that cordial invitation which led * This volume, which will be largely illustrated, is announced for publication by Mr. W. Hayley Mason, at Chichester. |